EVERYONE’S
INVITED TO
CELEBRATE TOAST’S
25th ANNIVERSARY
WEEKEND
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, premium
wine festival Toast Martinborough is inviting
everyone to join in with special wine-themed
activities on the day before Toast.
“No Toast ticket needed,”
says General Manager Anna Nielson.
“We want Saturday 19 November to be about
sharing Toast’s silver anniversary with the whole
region, and to welcome and entertain many of
the thousands of Toast guests who come in for
the weekend.”
This is the first time such a wide range of
activities will be offered to make the
weekend special.
Many of the Toast wineries are offering special
activities on Saturday, from a stylish Garden
Party High Tea at Tirohana Estate (with Butler
and Maid service), to light-hearted handy hints
at Luna Estate about tasting wine using all
your senses.
Plus, some very special and rare wine tasting
treats are on offer: pre-release tastings of
new wines, barrel tastings of wines not even
bottled yet, vertical tastings over several years
and some hidden treasures of older wines
are promised. Most cellar doors will be open,
including prestigious Dry River Wines for the
first time ever.
Vynfields is presenting Asian treats, with
delicious yakitori skewers over a wood-burning
Hibachi, and Chinese artistry with calligraphy,
painting and satins on display.
Most of these activities will include food.
Pre-booking is needed for some activities and
for others just come along. For details see
Eventfinda.co.nz and search using the key word
‘Toast Martinborough’.
Visitors and wine tasters staying locally are
also catered for with a special Toast shuttle bus
around Martinborough, which will drop visitors
at the gate of participating wineries.
The TOAST shuttle bus will meet both regular
Saturday Tranzit services from Masterton,
via Carterton, Greytown and Featherston
Station to Martinborough (meeting the
Wellington train), and back again at the end of
the day. See www.tranzit.co.nz for details.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun, and we look
forward to seeing a great crowd enjoying
themselves,” concluded Anna Nielson.
A VERY SPECIAL TASTE OF TOAST
CELEBRATING TOAST MARTINBOROUGH’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY
Saturday 19th November (the day before Toast Martinborough)
Time
Event
Venue
Description
Bookings and $
11am – 2pm
PopUp
Cellar Door.
Dry River
A first for prestigious Dry River: pop-up cellar door offering current
vintage tastes matched with Capitol’s antipasti. Plus selected older and
limited vintages for sale.
$15pp at the door for tastings and snacks
To book for 6+, email [email protected]
11am
1pm
3pm
Vineyard
Winery Tour
Margrain
Vineyard
Share the love with Margrain’s Vineyard and Winery Tour, learning and
tasting as you explore from vine to wine.
Bookings essential. $35pp for tour and tastings;
max of 20 per tour.
Includes a very special treat: a pre-release taste of Margrain’s soughtafter En Rose (pink bubbles), and exclusive tasting of some older gems
from the library.
To book, email
[email protected] or phone 06 306 9292
A lively tutored tasting to help you “unlock your senses of sight, smell
and taste and experience more of the wine”, 4 wines matched with 4
tapas dishes from The Kitchen at LUNA Estate.
$60pp for tutored tasting, wine and food Bookings essential.
Book at sister company Murdoch James Estate
[email protected], 06 306 9165
(one hour
duration)
11.30 – 1pm
How to Taste
Wine and
Wine-Tasting
Tricks
Luna Estate
12 – 4pm
A flavour of
Asia
Vynfields
Choose a selection of favourite Asian Yakatori skewers, cooked by
The White Swan chef over apple wood on a locally-made Hibachi
grill. Organic produce complements Vynfields’ organic wines. Admire
traditional Chinese painting, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese satin.
$6pp per glass of wine, $6pp per skewer.
Bookings not required.
2 – 4pm
High Tea
Tirohana
Estate
Frock up for an elegant Garden Party High Tea, complete with Butler and
Maid service, with a bonus background talk in a relaxed style about the
very vines and wines you are enjoying. Prizes for gorgeous outfits.
$25pp. Bookings essential Book at [email protected]
or www.tirohanaestate.com/seasonal-theme-nights
2 – 4pm
Wine
Tasting
Martinborough
Wine
Merchants
Wine tasting with Escarpment Vineyard – a Martinborough wine legend.
Chat with the winemaker about tastes and styles as you explore different
vintages and varieties.
6 Kitchener Street, Martinborough Wine Village.
Bookings not required.
11 – 11.45am
Barrel
tasting
Palliser
Estate
Sample the 2016 Pinot Noir’s wines direct from the barrels with our
winemaker.
$15.00 per head
2 – 2.45pm
Vertical
tasting
PLUS
(90 minutes
duration)
Empowering, entertaining, confidence-building and delicious!
In Palliser’s unique underground cellar, a winemaker will take you through
a unique vertical tasting of five years of Chardonnay.
$20.00 per head.
Bookings essential. Minimum of 20 people for each tasting required.
To book, email [email protected] or ring 06 306 9019
• Visit Ata Rangi and Te Kairanga Wines at their cellar doors, open as normal from 11am – 4pm Saturday
For further information and booking details, go to www.Eventfinda.co.nz and
search using the key word ‘Toast Martinborough’