The Cellar Door Restaurant & Cafe @ Waimea Estates

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Address:
107 Appleby Highway, Hope, Tasman 7081, New Zealand
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Website:
thecellardoor.net.nz

Phone number:
+64 3-544 4963

Categories:
Establishment   Food   Bar   Cafe   Liquor store  

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Reviews about The Cellar Door Restaurant & Cafe @ Waimea Estates

• Alexandra Smith

  14 Jul 2018
  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  Came here to taste Waimea's wines (due to recent fires, their tasting room at the winery is closed for summer 2018 and they're serving here instead). Tasting is $5 for 3 wines (which they refund if you purchase bottles to take home). There were 11 to try when we were there; we picked 9 and got a splash of a tenth as a bonus. Neal, the manager, was knowledgeable and great fun to talk to.
  
  The wines were all quite good. We especially liked the whites, including their Albariño (good tartness), Sauvignon Gris (yes, Gris, not Blanc -- all the best of the Blanc grape but much more complexity. Great for all kinds of food.), the Classic Reisling (sweeter, but not too sweet. Would be really nice as part of a dessert cheese platter), and the Pinot Gris, which had a nice balance on the nose between the fruit and floral, but what really made it special was the creamy mouthfeel (sometimes called oily, but that sounds negative to me). We thought this was amazing.
  
  The rose is a nice summer wine, the reds were good (the Trev's was really interesting! Not at all what we expected based on the nose.), but the whites are really where it's at (IMHO of course).
  
  Bottles were between $20-25 each, which we thought was a great value, especially considering how many awards they've gotten for their wines.
  
  As for Cellar Door, itself, we didn't try any of the food, though it looked good. They have really nice indoor and outdoor seating. The indoor seating is very airy and bright with lots of plants, so it still feels like an outdoor experience, and outdoor had lots of shady spots, which is great especially for those doing the biking Taste Trail (we saw a lot of people drop in). Highly recommend this place!

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