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Te Awanga Wine Festival
February 3 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Join us this Waitangi Weekend for the first ever, Te Awanga Wine Festival, 2024!
This isn’t just your ordinary wine festival. Our 7 wineries and guest bars will be connected by trails, with pop up destinations, Masterclasses in Wine, 8 Live bands, local guest breweries and distilleries, food trucks for a jam packed day along the coast!
Our Seven Wineries include local wines and winemakers:
Elephant Hill
Clearview Estate Winery
Te Awanga Estate
Organised Chaos
Swift Wines
Topsy Turvey Wines
Helio Wines
Guest Bars include:
Supernova Cocktail Bar
National Distillery
Brave Brewing
Masterclasses in wine:
- Masterclass in Wine with Yvonne Lorkin – Elephant Hill @ 11.30am
- Sea, Earth & Stone Wine Discovery with Simon Swa – Elephant Hill @ 12.30pm
- Vertical Chardonnay tasting + Red Wine Barrel with Tim Turvey – Clearview Estate @11.30am +1.30pm
- Wine + Cheese tasting with Hayden Penny + Juliet Harbutt @ 11.30am + 2.30pm
Tickets include entry to each of our wineries from 11-5pm.
Tickets are limited, so get in quick to secure your spot at our first ever event for 2024! Click the link to see all your options.
Rules:
R 18 event. NO ID, NO Entry. NO exceptions.
Prices
A general admission ticket gets you access to all the Te Awanga Wine Strip festivities on the day, optional masterclass options (some paid, some complimentary) and hop on hop off buses. You will also get a festival map and festival glass when you complete registration at your first winery.
$85* per person – General Admission tickets including bus transfer from a city pick up point
$65* per person – General Admission only
Please Note: there are additional online transaction fees which are non-refundable.
Admission does not include wine or food.
Don’t bring any alcohol with you. Bags will be checked at the entrance to each winery.
This event will go ahead rain or shine, it will not be cancelled for weather.
Tickets are limited to 1000 participants so be quick to book.
Online sales of tickets will finish at 5pm on the day of the festival. Please bring proof of purchase from Eventbrite with the QR code to scan for entry onto one of the city transfer bus if you have purchased this option.
Please note that tickets are not refundable after January 3rd, 2024. You may change the name of the ticket holder free of charge.
Getting to and from the festival
As responsible hosts, we recommend you use the festivals buses to get to and from the festival. If not, you will need a designated driver when travelling in your own vehicle. Parking will be limited, along Parkhill Rd and Clifton Rd. Please park safely. There will be no parking at any winery for safety reasons.
Catching one of the buses from the city.
Festival buses will be at specific locations in Napier, Taradale, Hastings and Havelock North. The first bus leaves at 10:15am and will depart when the bus is full, subsequent buses will also leave when full, with the last bus leaving at 10:30am – full or not. Don’t be late! Please carry a print out of your ticket from Eventbrite.
Napier – buses depart from The National Aquarium, Napier.
Taradale – bus will depart from the Lee Road Bus stop opposite McDonald’s car park.
Hastings – buses will depart from the cenotaph, Russel St South.
Havelock North – buses depart from the Havelock North i-Site, Te Aute Road.
Please be at the pick up point at least 15 minutes before your scheduled departure. Buses will depart Hastings, Havelock North, Taradale and Napier pick up locations from 10:15am. Please ensure you are on the correct bus and time for your ticket. Tickets must be printed and shown to bus drivers upon boarding. Buses will depart promptly – please don’t be late!
Please note each bus will go to a different festival site which is randomly selected on the day for registration. Once at the festival we will have other transport options around the winery.
Return buses will start leaving at around 5:15pm and will visit all wineries until full. Please do not wait until the last bus as we have limited buses on the day.
Under the Sale & Supply of Alcohol Act 2012:
The wineries promote the responsible consumption of alcohol. Food, water, and non-alcoholic drinks will be available at all participating wineries.
Intoxicated persons will be refused entry at all festival sites.
Intoxicated persons will not be served alcohol.
Spot checks of bags may be undertaken at the entry and exit points to all festival sites.
Any unauthorized alcohol will be confiscated.
Alcohol cannot be taken into or out of any festival site.
Alcohol is not permitted on buses.
Bottle sales will not be permitted on the day. Glass sales only.
Event Restrictions
This is an R18 event. No persons under 18 will be admitted. Please have photo id available for entry and whenever you are purchasing drinks.
