Amersfield Winery - Lake Hayes

The dining experience here was exceptional! A 19 course meal with every single dish so creatively and well made! The service here is also really good, as they wait till everyone is seated before every dish is brought out for the full experience. The environment is very simple but super elegant! Loved my experience here so much!

Awesome experience with the food quality; presentation and the services. I would highly recommend this restaurant

Ok so we arrived without a booking but were told we could get bar food . Had a wine tasting which was excellent) and then were told that despite a room full of empty tables and no booking facility , they didn't have capacity . We were just dressed in jeans and tee shirts so if you are really keen to go there, which I don't recommend , dress for success . Very very disappointed to travel out from Queenstown on a friend's recommendation to be so bluntly snubbed .

Amisfield Bistro Cellar Door was our first winery out of two) that we stopped at while we drove through Lake Hayes. It's a huge building with a restaurant in the back. Bookings are essential according to their sign). We dropped in on a Friday afternoon around 4:00pm). The restaurant looked busy but the wine tasting area wasn't. Wine tastings are $10.00 NZD/person but the fee is waived if you buy a bottle. There's 13 wines to choose from bubbles, white and pinot noirs) and you get to choose any 5 from the list. Service was excellent and informative. Other wineries should take notes. Amisfield pétillant naturel 2017 a pretty different sparkling but in a good way. Hints of apple but not sweet. A popular bubbly they only had 25 bottles left). We were debating between this and the chenin blanc for our bottle purchase. Amisfield chenin blanc 2016 this was excellent. Apparently, there's only three chenin blancs in NZ and we've tried two of them Mt. Difficult and Mt. Edmond are the others). Citrus and smooth. We got a bottle $30.00 NZD). Amisfield pinot gris 2016 this one consisted of floral tones. Off dry. Amisfield pinot noir rosé 2017 it was the best rosé we've tried so far. We got hints of strawberry and watermelon. Amisfield RKV reserve pinot noir 2014 a bottle is $120.00 NZD! Incredibly smooth as it's been aged for 18 months. Our second favourite winery out of all the wineries we visited during our month long trip in New Zealand. Superb wines!

This is one of the iconic places to sit and watch the world go buy in Queenstown. As one of the original Otago wineries, it has an incredible location right outside of Queenstown. We were there on a beautiful spring day and sitting outside watching the world go by was terrific. The grounds are immaculate and the nearby hills are beautiful. I could have taken pictures here all day. The staff and the food are very good particularly for lunch. We loved the oysters on a half shell, the salads were wonderful. For the mains we had a nice lamb dish and then a wonderful local fish. This is the kind of place where you should make sure to bring your sun hat and sunglasses as there isn't too much shade outside. We then went for a wine tasting and it was a pretty good selection, the white wines seemed like they were light and easy to drink. But the main reason, at least for us, to come here is lunch and the view