Queenstown Heli Gin Tour

• Get up to $50 cash back per person when you book with us
• A 6 hour small-group gin tasting experience, starting with a 15-min scenic helicopter flight to a secluded mountain location to enjoy your first gin
• Visit 3 unique cellar doors with tastings at each
• A delicious shared grazing platter 
• After your flight, travel in style in luxury Mercedes vans with unique onboard videos & Wi-Fi
• Services of a fun & friendly driver-guide
• Convenient return transfers from selected Queenstown locations

Welcome to the world's first heli gin tour! You'll feel like a rockstar while soaking up the sights from a mountain location with a gin in hand. 

Your experience begins with pick-ups up from your accommodation by the heli partner and transported to their heli base in Frankton, where you'll have a safety briefing before boarding the aircraft.

You will be whisked away on a 15-minute scenic flight to a secluded mountain location. Here your pilot will open the hatch, present and pour your first gin, a very exclusive and special gin to start the day. This location on the mountain top provides privacy and panoramic views, a truly remarkable experience and a great way to kick off your afternoon.

You will then be transported by helicopter to the Cardrona Distillery, landing right inside the grounds out the front of the property. Meet your gin guide and be taken through a full sensory, tactile tour of the facilities, including a gin tasting in the private tasting room. The remainder of your journey takes place in a premium Mercedes vehicle.

Your next stop is an easy drive down the Crown Range into Arrowtown to visit an excellent cellar door called 'The Winery'. Here you will have a self-guided experience, using the knowledge you have just gained to select your gin-tasting paddle along with shared grazing boards. There will be time here for you to buy an additional drink, whether that be gin, wine, cocktail, beer or other. This location has the most extensive range of wines in Queenstown and is a delight to walk through and explore.

The last stop is a 15-minute journey to Arthurs Point, where you'll visit the Gin Garden by Broken Heart Spirits. Here you will be guided through a range of local Broken Heart gins in a private room with traditional German Tarte Flambee to share.

This Queenstown heli gin tour has been designed to be the perfect mix of education, sightseeing and fun. It is ideal for couples and groups, and there is some flexibility to try other spirits such as vodka, whiskey and, of course, wines throughout if you want to balance or pace your gin intake.

Where we Visit:

• An exclusive mountain landing
• Cardrona Distillery
• The Winery
• Gin Garden by Broken Heart Spirits

• The minimum age is 18 years
• The tour requires a minimum of four people to operate 
• Please bring a valid form of ID. This is an international passport or NZ driver's license
• The Operator encourages you to bring your drink bottle, there will be several locations to fill these up along your tour
• The Operator accepts no responsibility for any loss or additional expenses arising from changes, delays or cancellations of the services provided
• All tours may carry a degree of risk, and that by participating in the tour or service provided by The Operator you are expressly assuming those risks personally and are releasing The Operator from any liability, claims, losses, damages or expenses