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

Fri 20 Sep

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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)

janejordan1211

Oct 2018

Very poor value for money, our guide gave no information on the area around us, lunch was just poorly made roll and two tasteless salads

Response from Host

Oct 2018

I'm very sorry your tour and lunch were so unimpressive. Our tour guides are trained to provide a lot of information about the history and culture of this region, mostly in the form of stories. Since this doesn't seem to have happened on the tour we showed you that day, I would like to follow up and try to find out why it went wrong. Please feel free to contact me so that I may try and make it up to you.

Yorkie_Traveller

Oct 2018

We booked Platypus due to it’s fantastic reviews and recommendations by The Lonely Planet and our accommodation hosts in Napa. Due to its excellent reviews we had high expectations for our tour around Sonoma. Unfortunately, it didn’t meet our expectations. While I was happy with the all the vineyards we visited the pace of the day was drawn-out. We continually seemed to be waiting around (and not for people on our tour). This was especially evident at our first winery, Buena Vista; we seemed to wait for every other tour group to go through before us. This seemed to set the tone for the rest of the day. I was also disappointed with the lunch. I acknowledge that the price of our tour was very competitive compared to other tours in the area, but I did expect more than sandwiches and couscous that our driver made. There was nothing wrong with the sandwiches but after experiencing many wine tours around the world I expected a little more. I’m not sure if our driver/guide was less experienced than others who get the great reviews on here but unfortunately he missed the mark for us.

JusWannaSleep

Sep 2018

Our tour started late. We were picked up in Sonoma 45 minutes after the designated pick-up time with still one more pick-up to make. We visited three wineries and one strip mall tasting room. Our driver Micheal was very knowledgeable but rushed us from one stop to the next because we were so behind schedule. The first vineyard, Loxton, was one of the best winery experiences I've ever had. It is small and the owner is so engaging and knowledgable. Will return there anytime I'm in the area because his wines and award winning port are only available there. The second vineyard was St Anne's Crossing. The tasting here was borderline insulting. The wine was just poured, the stewards seemed indifferent. Maybe the poor quality lunch that Platypus served to us while we were there influenced the tasting but it left a lot to be desired. The third vineyard was Deerfield. It was fun. Some good wines served by a steward in training which was also fun. Finally, the strip mall tasting room was forgettable and I already have forgotten it's name. The highlight of the tour was our group...we had so much fun together. Lots of laughs! Platypus did accomplish part of its mission which is to promote some of the smaller lesser known wineries in the area and I did appreciate that. However I don't think I would repeat with them.

Response from Host

Sep 2018

Thanks for sharing your tour comments. I'm very sorry this tour was less than compelling. I am not sure why your tour guide chose some of those destinations, but I will follow up with him. If you are inclined, please contact me as I would like to try and make it up to you somehow.

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Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Sonoma Valley

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