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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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)

E8584MLmatto

Dec 2021

Sam is the best guide we’ve had for anything anywhere in the world. He made our Sonoma experience phenomenal and his wealth of knowledge on the region and its offerings is astounding! We learned so much from him. When another wine tour company canceled our trip at the last minute (because they didn’t have enough people signed up to make it worth their while), Platypus was our saving grace. They took us with less than 24hrs notice and we ended up with just one other couple on our tour (the ideal situation). We got to visit three beautiful vineyards/wineries in the area and everywhere we went, it was the VIP treatment! It was like we were traveling with the mayor: Sam knows everybody and is a local celebrity! The lunch provided was stellar (they even had a solid vegetarian option) and the service was impeccable. We got picked up at our AirBnb in the morning and then dropped off at our dinner reservation in the evening. Simplest process. Could not have asked for a better experience. 5 stars all around. THANK YOU!!

Response from Host

Feb 2022

Yep; Sam is a tour guide who has elevated his presentation so much over the years, I would consider it an art. His enthusiasm and curiosity about the world is infectious (an heck, we don't use that term lightly anymore! 🙄) Anyway, I'm so glad it worked out and that we had the pleasure of touring you. I'm proud of that lunch too, because we operate our own commercial kitchen and we have a really sharp and dedicated staff there, too. Thanks so much for posting!

888travelert

Nov 2021

We took two tours with this company - both with different tour guides. We did not know until after our first tour that 1) the tour guide puts together the tour 2) she wineries are not eager to book groups due to the pandemic (at least this is what were told). Our first tour included the following wineries: Deefield Ranch, Wellington, and Ty Caton. The tour was very disappointing. Our guide, Stephen evidently thought these three were a great way to showcase wine country, Deerfield was a fun and different experience - beautiful view and a fun tasting in a cave-like setting. At Wellington we sat outside and had lunch with our group. The winery was under construction and there were ports-pots provided for us. Even though there were no other guests, someone from our group had to go three times to remind our server we were ready to continue our tasting. The last stop at Ty Caton, we all sat on fake leather furniture in a warehouse and listened to the server, Paul, tell us his whole life story. The next day, I called the company and said I wanted to cancel our second tour and explained why. Thankfully, a different tour guide, Linda, saved the day. She started her tour at Sabastiani and since we had already been there, she suggested we join the tour after the first stop. Our second stop was Nicholson Winery was everything I had hoped for on my first trip to Sonoma - beautiful views and great service. The third winery Buena Vista was also fabulous. I am glad we stayed with the trip but I would ask in the future if we can know ahead of time what wineries we are visiting. We were only there for four days and wanted to maximize our time and get the best experience.

Response from Host

Feb 2022

Thanks very much for posting your observations of the two tours you took with us. I apologize the first one was such a disappointment. That guide was still in his first year with us. He had plenty of experience working for a different tour company, but unlearning bad habits can sometimes be more challenging than starting from scratch. I'm happy to report that he has been improving steadily since your tour with him, and I have high hopes that he will be a great tour guide. Please do contact me if you would like to discuss your experience with his tour further. I really regret that we failed to do better for you.

Symphony_O

Oct 2021

We had a wonderful experience with our great tour guide Bob from Platypus tours. He was extremely well versed in wine making, in addition to the local area and wineries. This was one of the best tours we have taken in wine country.

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Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Sonoma Valley

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