Te Whau Winery-Waiheke Island

Today Helen had to fly home to Christchurch and we needed to drive to Bay of Islands. After some breakfast at the Milners (great strong coffee, multigrain toast with exotic seeds and grains for Jennifer and Brian had bacon and eggs made by Helen's mom) we all headed to Te Whau (pronounced tay fow) to sample their renounced Bordeaux blend called "The Point." It was excellent and was the only wine they offered for our tasting. They have a modern style tasting room and restaurant with insane panoramic views of the hills and ocean. This is wine country living!

We caught a 1pm ferry back to Auckland, enjoying the view from the top deck this time. Upon arrival we picked up our chartreuse rental car and were on our way north.