Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Napa Valley

Overview

Join us on a full-day, small-group wine tour of the Spectacular Napa Valley wine country! You’ll visit three charming, back roads wineries and be served a picnic lunch in an idyllic winery setting. Your tour guide will tell fascinating stories and share many interesting tidbits about local history, culture and wine making. Our specialty is intimate, light hearted and truly memorable experiences. Your guide will set up a tasty picnic lunch for you at a picturesque winery. Once the tour concludes, you will be dropped off from where you were picked up. The tour typically has 8-12 guests on board.

City: Napa & Sonoma

Mon 23 Sep

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Starting at $129.69

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Mon 23 Sep

Starting at $129.69

Make a reservation

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What's Included

3 winery visits

Bottled water

Picnic lunch

Lunch

Hotel pickup and drop-off within towns in tour region (Not San Francisco)

Driver Tour Guide

Fuel surcharge

Additional Info

Service animals allowed
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Minimum age is 21 years
A maximum of 8 people per booking
Please call local operator after booking to provide a mobile phone number and an email address
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Face masks provided for travellers
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
Guides required to regularly wash hands
We are showing awesome (and COVID-safe) wine tours! Vehicles are frequently sanitized. Hand sanitizer on bus. Per CDC transportation guidelines, we recommend guests wear masks on board the tour shuttle. Safe, but still really fun.

What To Expect

Napa Valley

Your tour will begin with pickup from your Napa Valley hotel. Where you are staying will define the tour region that you will be visiting. If your accommodations are outside of the winery region, you can arrange to meet us a general meeting spot. You’ll visit three charming, backroads wineries and be served a picnic lunch in an idyllic winery setting. Your tour guide will tell fascinating stories and share many interesting tidbits about local history, culture and wine making. This is not a smarmy or touristy activity. Our specialty is intimate, light-hearted and truly memorable. This tour is sure to entertain with a very approachable and easy-going style. Discover and savor new experiences tasting some of the world’s most celebrated wines. Our typical guest is not necessarily a wine expert but keen to learn a bit about wine and wine-making, and is open to sharing the experience with a few other like-minded wine adventurers.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (544)

jennamaec

Nov 2018

We went to four different wineries. There was a chocolate pairing at one of them that was excellent, and all tasting fees were 15$ each (+5$ for chocolate well worth it). They gave us unlimited water. Cheese and crackers on the bus, and a great lunch that filled us up + vegetarian options! The only suggestion I would have, is to start with the wineries where you tour the ground, and end at the ones at the table and ac. Just by the end, you want to enjoy your wine from one place not exercise! haha. All in all it was great. Will recommend to others!

Response from Host

Nov 2018

Thanks for your suggestion. You're right in that these tours have an entirely different feel early in the day (folks are a little shy, very polite, very interested in hearing stories and learning about the area and about wine) and later in the day (everyone is now chatty, laughing, comfortable with one another, more interested in the music than the stories...)

Ray V

Nov 2018

Our tour guide Kelly picked awesome wineries and was an absolute delight. We had a great group, we sang together on the way home (well we tried) and we went to dinner as a group. Platypus tends to visit smaller wineries which we really enjoyed. It's nice to bring home wine you can't buy elsewhere. The wineries we visited were Merryvale, Varozza, Benessere and Dutch Henry. All had excellent wine and customer service. The winery tours were all outstanding. A lunch was served by the lovely Kelly (Platypus) at the second winery and it was great. Make sure to drink lots of water, and be careful not to drink too much...helping others finish their wine. We Highly recommend this tour and are planning a return soon.

Flyer814234

Nov 2018

Kelli was our driver. She was excellent and our tour of lesser known wineries was fabulous. The wine was excellent, and nice to have the cheese tray between tastings. She fixed a delicious lunch and the view was superb. We had a fun group of 13 on the tour bus, and we jammed to music on the way back. I would definitely recommend this tour company to others. And ask for Kelli. J&J Boley