"If people feel like dancing they get up and have a dance, if people feel like eating they just lie there and eat and if people feel like drinking wine they just do that. Or both or all three at the same time. I love it, it's a great atmosphere."
Although Dobbyn said the tours were a lot more civilised than the "booze barns" he performed in in his earlier career.
Dobbyn, who will perform alongside McGlashan, said he had been enjoying rehearsing with him.
"We are off to a roaring start and the band sounds fantastic, the mixture of mine and Don's songs is great.We have got to that point now where we don't know what to leave out, so that's a good place to be as a song writer. It also allows me to be a player, backing singer and just to enjoy it."
Dobbyn met McGlashan years ago, in his DD Smash days, and said he always thought he was "a pretty clever dude".
The artists had a mutual respect for each, other even though there were "quite a few chords to remember with Don's stuff", he said.
During the Winery tour, both artists will deliver their classics such as Anchor me, Slice of Heaven, Language and Welcome Home.
Dobbyn said one of his proudest moments as a song writer was when he finished the last chords for Welcome Home.
"I was working on pre-producing it with Neil Finn and I played it to him and he said something like, 'it's all there'. I just felt so good I had finished it, even though it was one which had come by pretty quickly, I felt moved to write it."
Prouder still when he got to perform the hit at the unveiling of the New Zealand War Memorial in London.
"We had all the New Zealand vets, the Army and the Navy, in the middle winter, it was -2C with a wind chill.
"I was freezing when I sang it and, boy, I was relieved after it because it had attached itself to something as important as that."
Dobbyn said he simply loved his profession.
"Music is a language I prefer to any other language on the planet. "It is the only one which moves hearts. Without having to say anything specific, but at the same time it gets you right where you want to go, usually the heart and the feet. I can't get enough of it.
"When I was a kid I couldn't get enough of what I was hearing on the radio. All sorts of stuff and I imagined what kind of rooms these people wrote or recorded in. "Hence my now obsession with studios."
Initially a stage fright sufferer, Dobbyn said it had taken him 40 years to get his groove right.
"But here I am, I'm probably more excited than I was back then."
So am I.
