Queenstown Gin Tour

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Join in group
Optional hotel pick up
6hr Duration
Central Queenstown
  • Join New Zealand’s first Gin Tour
  • Visit three tasting rooms around Cardrona, Arrowtown & Queenstown
  • Taste over 12 unique gins and spirits, including gin, whiskey, vodkas and liquors
  • Take a guided tour and learn about the gin making process at the Cardrona Distillery
  • Indulge in shared grazing platters and a traditional German tarte flambée
  • Be greeted with a Gin & Tonic cocktail upon arrival
  • Enjoy a personal small group tour with other gin lovers
  • Be hosted by a fun and friendly Altitude Tours guide

What to expect

Join New Zealand's first Gin Tour! Start your day by meeting your friendly guide at or near your Queenstown accommodation. From here, explore Cardrona, Arrowtown, and Queenstown, where your guide will showcase a talented range of distillers who use our unique environment to produce some of the smoothest and top award-winning spirits in NZ and around the world.

Throughout the afternoon, you'll travel by road and enjoy three separate gin and spirit tasting experiences, including a distillery tour at the famous Cardrona Distillery. Enjoy a gin and tonic upon arrival, shared platters at two of the locations, and be hosted by your guide and the tasting room staff, all of whom will educate and entertain you with distilling facts and stories.

Be collected by your Altitude Tours guide from Queenstown in a premium Mercedes vehicle
Travel up through the Crown Range and enjoy photo stops along the way
Take in the views across Queenstown
See the famous bra fence as we arrive at the Cardrona Distillery
Enjoy a gin and tonic cocktail upon arrival
Be hosted on a guided tour of the Cardrona Distillery
Gin botanicals
The barrel room at the Cardrona Distillery
Experience a hosted tasting across their different spirits, including gin, whiskey, and liqueurs
Enjoy a small group tasting tour
Afterwards we drive down to Arrowtown to our next tasting location
Arrowtown is a famous historic mining village outside of Queenstown
You will be taken to The Winery, a unique tasting room in the heart of Arrowtown
Enjoy a gin flight board at The Winery
We also include platters to enjoy with your tasting at The Winery
Our last stop is the Gin Garden by Broken Heart Spirits, located in Arthurs Point just outside of Queenstown
Enjoy a tasting from a range of Broken Heart spirits
Be hosted at a private tasting
Included are German inspired Tarte Flambees

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