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# Top of the South Island, NZ
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/samantha-browns-places-love/episode/top-of-the-south-island-nz-tuo4m0/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:16:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-14T16:01:28.000Z
- Description: Samantha explpores vineyards and Lord of the Rings filming locations in New Zealand.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Samantha Brown's Places to Love, Season 3, Episode 303, #ZZZ_Episode_242f785b-daa3-458f-923b-6866c1e36964, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_4ca80285-415f-48dd-8d50-4838aff7245e, #v1.16

Samantha bicycles through the sprawling Brancott Estate vineyards and then visits the te Pā Family Vineyards, where she learns of its 800-year old Maori roots. Then to Havelock, the mussel capital of the world where Samantha indulges at Mills Bay Mussels. Taking to the sky, Samantha helicopters to a Lord of the Rings filming location at the peak of Mount Olympus.