Wine Tours by Bike - Sustainability

We’ve always been big on Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, making sure waste stays as low as possible. So when we took over Wine Tours by Bike, it just made sense to keep that mindset rolling!
We like to keep things easy and eco-friendly—recycling everything we can and repurposing whatever’s possible. Instead of single-use plastic water bottles, we provide free water via a cooler with compostable paper cups and encourage our lovely bikers to bring their own reusable bottles to fill up here and at the cellar doors, helping cut down on plastic waste.
We’re also powered by the sun, with solar panels on the bike shed roof supplying all the energy we need to keep things running. And to make our trips even more eco-friendly, we offer a timetabled shuttle pickup service—reducing not just our carbon footprint but also cutting back on emissions from visitors’ cars that would otherwise be driving to us.
For us, sustainability isn’t just good business—it’s how we live. Every ride helps make the planet a little greener, so grab a bike, hit the road, and ride responsibly!

Our Kona Africa Bikes were designed and produced to be as their name suggests, a missionary and aid worker bike in Africa. Kona had a program where for every two bikes they sold an additional one would be sent to Africa to the aid missions – the 36 we bought were the last available in NZ, but this meant we directly supported the sending of 18 bikes to Africa as part of this program.

We offer a timetabled shuttle pickup service to not only make our trips as efficient as possible and reduce our carbon emissions but to also cut back on the carbon emissions that would otherwise come from our visitors’ cars if they were all to drive out to our place.

We no longer offer single-use plastic water bottles and instead have free water via a cooler with compostable paper cups and we encourage our lovely bikers to bring their own reusable bottles to fill up here and at the cellar doors.

Our cellar door maps are printed on recycled paper. We use pencils instead of pens to reduce the plastic waste, we recycle wine boxes so our bikers can use them to carry their wine home safe.

Photo credit Trevor Hammond
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Sustainability - “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle”

Sustainability “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle”