Brick Bay Winery is best known as a winery with a striking glasshouse-style restaurant over a lake filled with water lilies. Although we don’t generally recommend commercial activities, the restaurant is worth a visit in its own right.
Once there, you can also pay a small fee to walk around the extensive sculpture garden. The track takes you around one side of the lake, up towards a section of vineyards, through regenerating native forest, with a side trip into a section of kauri regrowth, across a paddock, and then back down the other side. Numerous outdoor sculptures are along the way, and a few are shown here. The loop takes at least an hour.
Brick Bay is on the Mahurangi Peninsula on the Matakana Coast in Auckland. The entrance is off Arabella Lane from Mahurangi East Road, about a 10-minute drive east of Warkworth and just before Snells Beach.
