Wild On Waiheke (Auckland) New Zealand

Wild On Waiheke, Auckland Overview

Wild On Waiheke is a multipurpose garden on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. It includes a range of restaurants, vineyards, hotels and breweries and is mainly home to Wild Estate Vineyard and Restaurant and Waiheke Island Brewery. The Wild Estate Vineyard and Restaurant, located in Onetangi Valley, is one of the most exquisite vineyards in New Zealand, with wines ranging from Chardonnays to Syrahs to Pinot Gris. A viticulturist looks after the vineyard, Matt Sloane and their wines are made by the award-winning winemaker, Patrick Newton.

The Waiheke Island Brewery has a range of 4 beers and ciders and is well-known for its non-alcoholic ginger beer. What was started around 25 years ago is now one of the unique micro-breweries in New Zealand. This brewery will spoil you for choices from Baroona Pale Ale to wheat beer to island IPAs. Wild On Waiheke is an all-weather venue and is the right place for visitors to spend their weekends, especially for those who want to spend their day with family and friends in this natural field.

Ambience

The place is an open field spread around 7 acres of land. The boutique is surrounded with hills and greenery of Te Putiki O Kahu Hill forestry which was an early Maori settlement 700 years ago. Wild on Waiheke is located on Waiheke Island, around 35 minutes away from the Waitemata Harbour. The island is rather drier and warmer than its neighbouring regions such as Auckland and Hauraki Gulf, and the soil is infertile in order to suit wine growth.

Activities

Wild on Waiheke offers a variety of activities to its visitors. These include:
Archery, Laser clay bird shooting, wild woozy team building activities and other free games like chess, petanque and volleyball. Along with that, this place has Flingo, noughts and crosses, trampoline, Californian sandbags and Giant Connect 4. What’s more, they also have a separate playing area for kids with sandpits and swings so that children are entertained while adults enjoy their wines and beers.

Events

Wild on Waiheke is a multipurpose venue. A few must-have experiences here are:

Craft Beer and Wine Tasting: Vineyards and breweries at Wild on Waiheke have regular wine and beer tasting festivals for visitors. These are conducted
Corporate Functions: Companies are offered different packages with rates for their corporate functions where they can simply choose their activities, menu and the bar tab is paid for on the final day itself. With that, ferry and transfers are free of cost!
Meetings: Wild on Waiheke provides a “meet and complete” meeting package for a group of 5-30 people. This consists of morning refreshments, a private meeting room, return ferry, on-island transfers as well lunch. During peak season, the meeting rooms can only be hired on Mondays-Wednesdays. However, there are special offers available during the off-season from April to September.
Stag and Hen Parties: Christmas parties and private parties where tourists can avail early week deals and group packages on festivals like Christmas, or indulge in activities like archery, guns and arrows and wild tag as a part of the Stag and Hen parties, or throw a private party where only a prepayment of food needs to be made and the venue is free!

How To Reach Wild On Waiheke

The closest airport to Wild on Waiheke is the Auckland International Airport.
Visitors can take a cab, taxi or a bus from there till the Downtown ferry terminal which would take around 25-30 minutes.
Visitors can take the ferry from there until either the Matiatia Wharf terminal through Fullers ferry, or the Kennedy Point Wharf through the SeaLink Ferry.
It is around a 4-10 minute drive from the latter and around a 10-15 minute drive from the former.
The entire journey would take around an hour and fifty minutes.