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

Tue 24 Dec

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Tue 24 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)

Susan P

Aug 2022

My husband and I have take Platypus wine tours before and had an outstanding experience. Sadly, this was not the case on August 11. Prior tours with Platypus included visits to five wineries and a lovely gourmet quality lunch with fresh sandwiches and “Ina Garten” quality side salads. The first two vineyards were ok. Lunch has been reduced to a passable boxed lunch which was nothing to write home about. The last wine tasting took place at a vineyard which was under construction and took place in their parking area near the portapotties…really?! With all of the lovely vineyard choices, this was the one chosen by our driver Dave Johnson…so disappointing! I used to recommend Platypus tours to all of my friends visiting Sonoma and Napa. Unfortunately I can no longer do this.

Response from Host

Sep 2022

Hello Susan: Thanks very much for taking the time to provide this tour feedback. I am truly sorry this most recent experience failed so utterly to live up to the past tours you've taken with us. While it's true that many market factors have changed in our industry in recent years, and we've had to make adjustments in our tour offering, it is our duty to figure out how to still deliver to our guests a memorable and thoroughly enjoyable tour. Clearly, we came up short for you. I hope you will accept my apology. Certainly, we'll use your observations to improve the experience.

york1000

Aug 2022

Went on a tour with 8 others with fabulous guide Jared, who was very friendly and knew his stuff inside out. He selected three great wineries. My favourite was the Wellington where we had a great picnic lunch and some great refreshing whites and light and full bodied reds. The group was excellent and really interesting. Well done Jared & everyone at Platypus Tours. PS I have nabbed the title from Craig Revel- Horwood, one of the judges on the mother show of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.

Kris_M

Jul 2022

This was the first wine tour for my daughter and me. Our guide was knowledgeable and interesting and chose three diverse wineries to visit. We were lucky to travel with a friendly, fun group. It was a wonderful way to spend the day in wine country! I would highly recommend it!

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Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Sonoma Valley

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