10 Things to do Good for a Rainy Day in Nelson-Tasman Region That You Shouldn't Miss

We specialise in wine tours and are genuine local craft beer enthusiasts based right here in sunny Nelson. Our tours take us as far away as Marlborough or you can explore Nelson Tasman in an easy fun filled afternoon. Our clients from around the world continue to stay in touch with us via social media and some are planning to come back for another visit. Going into our 13th year, we are very proud to be the company who took the risk to redefine the Nelson tour experience, raising the bar to produce a fun, flexible, relaxed and personalised style tour.

We want to show you our unfair advantage: our water. The clearest springs in the world, Dancing Sands Spring and Te Waikoropupu Springs are measured to be 81 metres clear. Each bottle of Dancing Sands gin is blended with the water from the aquifer that feeds Dancing Sands Spring allowing us to make the best possible gin and perfect its taste. Quality is at the centre of everything we do. Dancing Sands has an obligation to make beautiful products that mirror our surroundings. We relentlessly focus on quality through the entire product lifecycle – starting from the water that feeds the clearest spring in the world, to the ingredients that we hand select, to the glass bottles we import from France. When your quality standard is unrivaled, you make unrivaled products.

Nelson's smallest winery. Situated in very picturesque surroundings, set between two national parks and close to the beautiful beach of Kaiteriteri. Our award winning, family owned estate produces "Resurgence," individual, handcrafted artisan wines of unique and distinctive character from limestone soils and a lot of passion. Cellar door tastings, sales and vineyard tours available.

Interactive Wooden Art Gallery, RARE CREATIONS offers Contemporary Furniture and a huge range of related wooden art and technical kit sets from 3 to 99 years old to bring back the lost creativity. It is the only gallery where it is almost compulsory to touch as we have many technical moving toys and sculptures.

Wall To Wall Art Nelson (formerly known as Art@203 Gallery) is a light, bright, vibrant and colourful gallery in central Nelson run by a collective of 12 passionate local artists, together with selected guests, offering a huge variety of amazing artworks, art cards, prints and gifts.

Sculpture 705 is an art complex comprising of a Courtyard, Studio Shop, Archway, Sculpture Garden and Workshop. Sculpture 705 also hosts the Loft Gallery and Slice of the Artifact. This years summer exhibition in the Loft Gallery is now open, an installation first shown at the local museum, The Body Snatchers ... A fairy tale? Tells the story of the first recorded Pākehā/Māori burial in the bay and the shenanigans that ensued afterwards. Also exhibiting, We're All In the Same Boat, He Waka Eke Noa. Plus of course, the many new sculptures, paintings, jewellery, and much, much more throughout the site.

Vintage Store selling goodies from the past 100 years: retro, mid century, antiques home ware, vintage car accessories, old road signs, two wheeled transports,items from New Zealand's pioneering & farming past, NZ books, records/vinyl, retro camping gear, old toys, old tools for carpentry, farming, mechanical. Small vintage souvenirs and Dust & Rust merchandise ( hand printed t-shirts, tea towels, postcards, fridge magnets ). All housed in the iconic & picturesque Commercial Stables, a Historic Place Trust registered unique historic building, the oldest in New Zealand.

At Kiwi Spirits Distillery we believe good taste is good for the soul. We are a family owned and operated distillery redefining what quality means. We specialise in unique spirits handcrafted from the purest homegrown ingredients. With a family history of decades of distilling we’re staunchly dedicated to quality over quantity. We live and breath local, almost all our ingredients come from our region and we are in the process of setting up gardens and orchids on our 25 acre distillery and cellar door. We are a creative bunch who love nothing more than experimenting, creating new tastes and pushing the limits on what is possible. Heart and soul goes into everything we make and we are proud to share what we have created with you. Our Cellar Door is open daily for free tastings, no appointment needed. We have a wide range of spirits, such as Whiskey, Gin, Liqueur and the only 100% Blue Agave Tequilana Spirit made in NZ. Pop in and taste the spirits of New Zealand.