Wine & Food

Walk Gisborne is very pleased to be associated with Soho Restaurant for this seasons food. Gisbornes' favourite restaurant is run by two leading chefs, John and Matt who have created a delicious NEW menu for the 2011/2012 season and feedback so far this season has been fantastic.

Savour Walk Gisborne’s scrumptious cuisine, pre-dinner platters and fine Gisborne wines, delivered to your lodge. What a choice.

Daily meal package

The total daily meal package includes:

continental breakfast & cooked breakfast
morning and afternoon tea
comprehensive picnic lunch
two course evening meal, prepared from fresh local produce by two of Gisbornes' leading chefs, John and Matt from Soho Restaurant.
award -winning Hawthorne coffee.

Pre-dinner Platters

A selection of platters is the ideal accompaniment to pre-dinner drinks. The platters include a selection of award-winning Waimata Cheese, Waimata olive oil (both based beside the Waimata River) and a range of other delicious accompaniaments.

Wine

Gisborne is known as New Zealand’s Chardonnay Capital but many other varieties are available for your enjoyment. Walk Gisborne is pleased to be associated with three of the district’s leading wineries – The Millton Vineyard, Tietjen Witters (TW Wines), and Matawhero Wines .

The Millton Vineyard is world-renowned for its wine quality and winegrowing techniques. In 1984 James & Annie were the first in New Zealand to adopt a minimum intervention approach without the use of herbicide, insecticide, soluble fertiliser and systemic fungicide.

TW wines emanate from The Golden Slope where two good friends, Paul Tietjen and Geordie Witters each have a vineyard. Their wines epitomise what the world has come to expect of New Zealand wine - power, complexity, elegance and excellent cellaring potential.

Established in 1968 by Bill & Denis Irwin, Matawhero Wines defied convention and made wines of boutique standing and international acclaim. Today, revived by the Searle family, Matawhero is true to the founders’ determination, producing individualistic wines of world class standard. The old Matawhero Cellar Door at Riverpoint Road is reopened and faithfully portrays that idiomatic character the brand is so much loved for.

A selection of these wineries’ national and international award-winning wines is available for you to enjoy as you unwind after your day of walking and with your evening meal.

See the links page for more information on these wineries

Beer

Gisborne’s own healthy, fresh Gisborne Gold beer (also a multi-award winner) and Heineken beer are available on request.