“Cheers!” Let the palate experience Taranaki’s home-grown wines and ales… “Inside Taranaki…”
The Taranaki Wine and Ale Trail provides a great day’s outing all year round. To make the most of its obvious attractions, gather a group of friends, hire a coach, plan your itinerary using the map provided and enjoy! Quality food is available at several of the establishments. For a taste of what you are likely to experience, we provide the following guide:

Waiau Estate Winery, Onaero

 

Photographer: James Heremaia

White Cliffs Walkway
At White Cliffs Brewing Co in Urenui you will find premium, handcrafted Mike’s Mild Ale. Completely natural with no added sugars, chemicals or preservatives, Mike’s Mild is a naturally carbonated, unfiltered beer made from grain, hops, brewers yeast and rainwater. Naturally brewed beers such as Mike’s Mild offer a distinctive fullness of flavour which is less bitter on the palate and in aroma than more highly hopped bitters. While brewer Mike Johnson makes no claims, many drinkers of natural ale report it to be hangover-free, due to its natural quality.
Taranaki Wine and Ale Trail Map

Waiau Estate Winery, Onaero

Brian and Helen O’Neill offer visitors something unique when they call at O’Neill’s Brewing Company in central Taranaki. It starts with the pure water which comes from an artesian well on their property where they produce three naturally brewed beers (Ngaere Draught, Black Peat and O’Neill’s Special Lager). To complement the quality beers and wines, the café/bar operates on Saturday afternoons. The bar is an ideal venue for private functions any night of the week with reservations essential. For groups, cheeseboards and brewery tours are popular. An outdoor area with mountain views is the latest development.

Waiau Estate Winery, Onaero

  

For overnight visitors the Waiau Estate Winery at Onaero is an ideal place to end a trail, with a beach five minutes walk away and motels close by. Sparkling ciders, fruit wines and sales of local beers and grape wines. Fruit sales in season. Hosts Gus and Helen offer a lovely sheltered garden environment with tours of the winery and orchard available. To complement the award-winning wines,a café bar serving tasty ploughman’s lunches and fresh avocado dishes in season is now open

Waiau Estate Winery, Onaero

Sentry Hill Winery is situated in attractive berry gardens near Lepperton and sells not only award-winning wines but also the luscious raspberries and boysenberries from which they are made. The wines are produced by traditional methods using modern techniques which results in a clean, crisp wine true to the fruit from which it originates. Free wine and juice tasting.

  

Cottage Wines, New Plymouth

Cottage Wines in New Plymouth, uses quality fruit from Taranaki and around the country to produce wines by time-honoured traditional methods. Using virtually every fruit and berry imaginable, plus local honey and ginger, Cottage Wines has a fine assortment of wines, wine liqueur, meads, cider and non-alcoholic cordials to sample. Tours of winery must be pre-arranged.

Cottage Wines, New Plymouth

Peter Taylor runs the very successful Coastal Brewery at Manaia. The brewery makes Old Boy Dark and Coastal Draught with tastings and brewery tours available. For people wishing to end the trail at Manaia, accommodation is available.

For monthly updates of the Taranaki region events contact puretaranaki@windwand.co.nz