New Zealand is famous for its wonderful wines. Here our student, Svetlana Kirienko, writes about the lovely day she and her friends had visiting Auckland’s vineyards with Kiwiana Tours. Enter Svetlana…
It was a wonderful morning. The sun was shining. Before we were picked up we had been waiting for a bus for 20 minutes, but we spent the time taking pictures in the shadows of trees.
It only took 30 minutes to get to the first winery, and the whole time you could see nature through the car window. I had never carried out a wine tasting before visiting Soljans Estate Winery. It was founded in 1937. There we were learning to taste wine, looking at the colour of the wine, and then decanting it in a wineglass and smelling it and trying it again. It was really charming. You could smell the aromas of different fruits and spices, but we didn’t choose anything to buy.
The next stop was at West Brook Winery. It was founded in New Zealand in 1935 by Anthony Ivicevich from Croatia. It is one of New Zealand’s oldest and most respected boutique wineries. It is located in the Waikoukou Valley, Waimauku, west of Auckland. There was an amazing tasting. We were led to a special room with a glass wall. There were lots of wine barrels. 
It’s a must-see. It was exciting. We tasted wines and ate salt cookies while hearing about every kind of wine, and we could smell new and perfect aromas. After the tasting, we went to a picnic in the terraced picnic area. There was such a wonderful view. We sat and enjoyed it. We felt the blowing of the wind and listened to the bird song.
At the third winery – Coopers Creek Winery we spent less time than at the others because it was late and everybody was a little tired.
The trip back was fun. We saw little lambs. They were like athletes: they ran and jumped. It was a really awesome day.
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Author: Svetlana KirienkoSvetlana is a student at Languages International. She is from Vladivostok, Russia. |
In my opinion,the writer explained the place so wonderful because she can attract me to go there, I mean it. The winery tour is one of wonderful trips with Languages international. If you are love to taste something new,you’ll go there. However, I have found some other trips are as interesting as the winery tour,such as Rotorue Taupo Waitomo, Bay of Islands,Coromandel and Skiing-Snow Boarding National Park and Mt Ruapehu. They’re such adventure trips if you like this lifestyle.
I think is a great description about your lovely day, now I want to visit this georgeus place. Thanks to tell us your beatiful day in the winery tower.