Review The Vines Village Cafe - Rapaura

Great for local wine tasting experience. They also have craft beer, gin, food & other outlets all in the one area. Worth a visit if you are in the area!

Café awesome, gift shop amazing , award winning gin tasting ' the best ', whiskey tasting too...could it get any better. Oh yes it can ! Dessert, ice cream and fudge room ! Large chess board outside in beautiful grounds with lake and kids play area. Amazing place.

Friendly staff, nice food in cafe. Warm eating inside at tables looking out over lovely trees, pond, children's playground. Dine outside on sunny days and good veranda cover over that table area. Lots of small shops, gin & wine tasting venues to wander around after having lunch.

Great location and outdoor and indoor dining available. On a sunny day have your sustenance outside by the wee pond. Great vibe and good service. Waffle fries are hard to come but but on this day they were very salty. The fish slider I probably wouldn't have again (panko crumbed fish with a more refined salad may coax me though!) but my eggs benedict was tasty. You definitely need some food when you're wine tasting and this is a good option. There's also gin tasting in the village too which I managed to squeeze in after lunch.

Great place for a quick visit on a Malborough panorama bus tour off RCI Ovation of the Seas. Just wish we could have had a little more time to investigate all the shops. Picture is at the rear of the village looking over the mountains

Nice place, the outdoor area is awesome. Tables for all size groups and a decent kids playground. It’s fenced and nice and safe for the young ones. The cafe is nice, good food and coffee. Could do with a few more lunch options like burgers etc

We went for brunch and I was impressed they had a few more interesting choices on the menu instead of just the same things that you get everywhere. I also liked that the green tea I ordered came in a pot with enough tea for more than one cup. They were able to deal well with several separate payments for our large group. And the Village Green smoothies are amazing!

Great little place with friendly staff. I enjoyed the gin experience and my wife enjoyed the whisky tasting experience. The cheeses were really good as well

What a lovely place to visit while I'm Blenheim. Definitely be back, interesting shops, cafes, him tasting. Highly recommended

Very friendly service, lovely food and great atmosphere. Can't wait to come back

Wonderfull spot. Nice friendly staff and a small lake out back to sit at and relax. Also wine beer and gin tasting on site.

Great winemakers breakfast and good coffee, a great way to start the day! Nice views of the Richmond range in the background, also do wine and lunches, one of out favourite places!

What a beautiful breakfast and gorgeous coffee! Lovely, helpful staff and a beautiful setting with the gardens and vineyards around you.

Wow lots of goodies here great people fantastic food

We had lunch here in between tastings, and then popped in to the winery for a wine tasting which was really lovely. We did our wine tasting with Kaz, who was super friendly and full of information on the different wines. Lovely experience here, well worth stopping off as part of a wine tour.

Haven't been for about a year and it wasn't too bad. I had the slider platter and they were all really tasty aside from the fried chicken slider being very dry. My friend had the BLT which she said was lovely! My son had the savoury kids platter which he really enjoyed. Aside from the dry chicken, everything else was amazing and would definitely go again.