Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Sonoma Valley in Napa & Sonoma booking from $129.69

Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Sonoma Valley

Overview

Join us on a full-day, small-group wine tour of the Spectacular Sonoma 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 Dec

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What's Included

3 winery visits

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

Bottled water

Picnic lunch

Lunch

Driver Tour Guide

Transport by small shuttle

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
Gratuity for the guide (Suggested 15-20%) per person; Parties of 5 or more traveling together are considered a large party and will have a 15% gratuity charged for the tour guide at the end of the tour.
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Face masks provided for travellers
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
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

Sonoma Valley

Your tour will begin with pickup from your Sonoma area hotel. Depending on 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 (50)

jenjaina

Jun 2019

We had a great day touring wineries with Platypus! We visited four wineries, with different characteristics: a small not-even-boutique-sized winery where the wines all come from one small location in the valley (loved the port + chocolate combo); a family vineyard homestead where we hung out with the Australian winemaker and had a simple but tasty lunch made by our driver; a classy and modern wine tasting room right off the highway with wines from all over Sonoma and a beautiful backyard lawn; and finally a tasting building with an awesome shaded patio and a friendly winery dog. Our tour group was a good mix of couples and friend groups, our guide is clearly well-known in the area. The one downside was the drive through the backroads made us a bit carsick--that's to be expected with windy roads, but some soda might have been nice to combat the discomfort. They had tons of fresh cold water on the bus for us though, as well as a cheese and crackers plate. We bought wine at every stop, and I feel like we got a really good value for the tour.

Response from Host

Jul 2019

I really appreciate that you took the time to write such a detailed account of your tour with us. Every tour day is different and serendipitous, and it looks like most of the elements came together nicely that day (most often this is the case) Sorry that 'off the beaten path' often involves the winding back roads, but usually, they are not too bad. Thanks for your suggestion about the soda water. Also, the reason our guides are so well known among the wineries is that they have been building on these relationships for years (many years, for several of them) and these friendships most often result in our guests receiving insider's status at the wineries. I hope we'll see you again one day soon!

jmiller444

May 2019

This was our second tour with Platypus. It was another great tour! Chris our guide was fantastic! He helped make the day care free. Thanks for a fun day!!

Mary D

Nov 2018

My husband and I decided to take the Platypus Sonoma tour so that we could do tasting at wineries outside the city without having to drive. This tour isn't cheap, but it's comparable in price to similar tours and, in my opinion, well worth the price. Rob was friendly and pleasant, and made the tour fun. The wineries he chose were small and family owned with nice selections of wine. A cheese platter was provided for snacking on the bus, along with plenty of water for the trip and a satisfying lunch which Rob prepared at one of the wineries. The tour lasted for most of the day, and at no point did we feel rushed. We both loved the tour, and would heartily recommend it.

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Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Sonoma Valley

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