✓ No booking fees ✓ Free 48hr cancellation ✓ Free bad weather refund
Get shuttled out of Queenstown, ride across the Kawarau Gorge bridges and stop at the Gibbston cellar doors you choose. The motor handles the hills. You handle the pinot.
✓ No booking fees ✓ Free 48hr cancellation ✓ Free bad weather refund
Your rides
You get picked up in Queenstown, handed a comfy e-bike and pointed at the best riding in the basin. All you bring is your appetite.
Ride the Arrow River bridges and the Kawarau Gorge, cross the world's first bungy bridge, then roll from cellar door to cellar door. Your shuttle brings you home when you're done.
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Ride the Gibbston trail, then sit down to tapas and a wine pairing in the Mt Edward winery kitchen. Shuttle, e-bike and hosted lunch all in.
LAUNCHING SOON
Your trail crosses the Kawarau Bridge — so jump off it. Bungy first, wineries after, one booking. Until it launches, winery riders already get 20% off.
LAUNCHING SOONAbsolutely the highlight of our Queenstown trip. Four cellar doors, world-class pinot, and the scenery through the gorge is unreal. The e-bikes made it effortless — we actually got to drink the wine instead of one of us being the designated driver.
Did this as part of our honeymoon and it was perfect. Lunch on the terrace at Peregrine looking over the vines, cave tasting at Gibbston Valley, and the ride between them is genuinely beautiful. Self-guided means you go at your own pace — we spent two hours at one winery and didn't care.
Booked this for my wife's 40th with a group of six. Everyone said it was the best thing we did in NZ. The bridges on the gorge are spectacular, the wineries are world-class, and the e-bikes mean the whole group can do it no matter their fitness. Shuttle back was a godsend after a long lunch.
How your winery ride could look
Every Gibbston Valley winery ride is unique, well as unique as you make it. You get to pick the wineries you stop at, the pace you ride and the pace you drink. That is the beauty of a self-guided ride.
Jump on at your Queenstown CBD pickup stop. Sit back and enjoy the beautiful New Zealand countryside to the edge of Gibbston Valley Winery trail.
Watch a couple of bungy jumps at the world-famous AJ Hackett Bungy Kawarau Bridge. Jump if you're brave enough.
The trail winds down through the Kawarau Gorge, the river rushing alongside. Dramatic schist cliffs, golden tussock and blue water. Stop for photos whenever. The e-bike motor means there's no rush.
Kinross is the perfect lunch stop. A relaxed wine garden, a restaurant worth stopping for, and one cellar door pouring five boutique wineries — Coal Pit, Hawkshead, Kinross, Valli and Wild Irishman. You've earned it.
Wind down with a final tasting or a lazy platter. When you're ready, the shuttle collects you from the wineries. No rush, no ride-back required.
Hop in the shuttle at the wineries and relax on the scenic ride back into town. Dropped in central Queenstown. Walk straight to dinner, bags still warm from the sun.
Plan your day
Gibbston Wineries
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Good questions
Most don't — you can walk in on the day. Gibbston Valley Winery can get busy in peak season so it's worth calling ahead for a platter lunch. The team will let you know at briefing which ones are walk-in friendly on the day.
That's entirely between you and your conscience — the trail is off-road and self-paced, so you control the pace. The honest answer: a glass or two at a cellar door is part of the experience. Just be sensible about it.
The pure riding is 2–3 hours, but most people spend 4–6 hours with winery stops. The shuttle picks you up in the morning and you're back in Queenstown by late afternoon — perfect for dinner out.
Go for it — that's the whole point. There's no fixed return time. When you're done, the shuttle picks you up from the wineries and drops you back in Queenstown. It's your day.
Absolutely. The trail is Grade 1–2 (easy) and the e-bike handles the few climbs on the route. If it's your first time on an e-bike, the briefing will have you sorted in five minutes.
Free cancellation up to 48 hours before. If the weather changes on the day, call the team — if the trail is unrideable the booking will be rescheduled or refunded. Queenstown weather moves fast, but the gorge trail is sheltered in wind.
Ready to ride?
Pick up from Frankton, Queenstown or Arthurs Point, ride through amazing landscapes, over breath taking bridges to the heart of Gibbston wine country.
$179 NZD / person
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