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Solvang/ Santa Ynez Small Group All-Inclusive Wine Tour

Solvang/ Santa Ynez Small Group All-Inclusive Wine Tour

Overview

Red Carpet Service for 2 up to 8 People.
The tour around 5 hours
3 different wine Trails of the area, visiting 3 preset small wineries, special barrel room, private vineyard and boutique winery.
One-on-one private tasting experience
Learning Our History and Wine Making
Spend An Hour Each Place
Tasting fees and picnic lunch at the winery with bottled water and light snacks included.

Worry Free Day

10% Off Wine Purchase

This is not a party bus.

City: Santa Barbara

Tue 25 Feb

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Starting at $175.00

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Tue 25 Feb

Starting at $175.00

Make a reservation

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What's Included

Tour guide

Light snacks

Picnic lunch

Bottled water

Wine tasting

Hotel and Rental Home pickup and drop-off

Additional Info

Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
A maximum of 8 people per booking
Minimum age is 21 years to taste wine
Pick up in the Buellton/ Solvang/ Santa Ynez Valley ONLY
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
Guides required to regularly wash hands

What To Expect

Artisan Excursion Wine Tours

Farm to Table, Private Vineyards, Small Wineries, Special Barrel Room Tasting .10% Off Wine Purchase. Price does not include Gratuity we ask for 20% (not $20) Cash or Zelle.

Cancellation Policy

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

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Reviews (74)

Tns M

Aug 2019

Tom, Thank you for the wine tour experience! The bus was very clean and the three wineries that you took us too were exceptional! We enjoyed the lunch at our second stop under the trees and the beautiful view. We drove back to Sacramento talking about our experience, thank you for making it so special and can’t wait to do it again! Sacramento Girls Trip

MicheleRae

Jul 2019

Wonderful tasting experience! Our tour guide Tom was welcoming, incredibly courteous and we did not feel rushed at all. The wines were excellent, we especially enjoyed Signo del Fiore … the owner was super friendly and very knowledgeable. Lunch was lovely and we enjoyed sitting outdoors. The last winery comes with a nice glass to take with you. We can’t recommend Artisan Excursion Wine Tours highly enough, an absolute must experience.

RaffiGiraffe

Jul 2019

I’m honestly baffled by reading these other reviews and wondering how people had such drastically different experiences than we did. I’ve done wine tours before, and this was the most unprofessional and poorly organized tour I’ve ever been on. Are there two Toms employed by the company, and we got the bad one? Was the Tom in the other reviews possessed by an evil spirit just before our tour? Should I pray for him and for exorcism? Did he wake up the morning of our tour and think, “ You know what, screw this, I don’t like this job anymore.” We will never know. More and more of my lady friends are married and with kids, and time off is harder to come by with age/responsibilities, so we don’t get together as often and wanted to make it special. We decided to do something different and book a winery tour ($100 per person) and a 5-course vineyard dinner with a private chef ($200 pp). My friend found this company and booked based on the great reviews and that it also happened to be the cheapest (never again). We were told that there would be a mandatory 20% gratuity added to the dinner, which we were fine with. We were all looking forward to it. As we pulled up to our Airbnb on the day of the dinner, we received a call from Tom. He told us that unfortunately, the chef had recently had a heart attack, so he wanted to offer us a dinner at a barrel tasting event for members of that winery (he said he “didn’t know” when we asked which winery) where we could make our own tacos. There was never an apology…. apologies or accountability don’t seem to be his thing. He also never offered a discount, and when we asked, he called back to say it would be $115 per person with gratuity. Although we felt badly for what happened to the chef, doesn’t he have a backup for cases like this? Weren’t servers already hired and food already purchased, if this was 11AM the day of? After discussing with the group, we told Tom that we were looking forward to treating ourselves to a nice, private dinner, and making our own tacos wasn’t quite the same. We are mostly from Los Angeles too (so we know we didn’t need to pay $115 for good tacos) and many of the group members were already in wine clubs with free events like this. Instead of refunding us our money, Tom seemed to drag it out for as long as he could…. He called the next morning to say that he was trying to get a chef for that night instead. He told my friend that he still wanted to find a way to make it happen because he “still wanted the gratuity.” Classy, right? As of lunch time that day, he still said he was “working on” that night’s dinner, so we told him we were making reservations elsewhere and would just like a refund. His reply was “That’s going to hurt.” Throughout this ordeal, we were still nice and professional about the whole thing, mostly because we had to deal with this guy as our winery tour driver the whole next day. The tour was an absolute disaster. - He had oversold his shuttle van, forcing 4 people to squeeze into the back seat without enough space. - He hadn’t cleaned out the back of the van, so there wasn’t enough space for our purchases. - Although the website mentioned that the tour experience offered being able to play our own music in the van, he refused to let us do so because he needed the auxiliary cable for directions. Um…. If you give this same tour to the same wineries every weekend, why do you need directions? - Although my friend had asked that we get to experience smaller, boutique wineries, he took us to the large, commonly known ones without making reservations. He also only took us to 3 wineries because he “wanted to go home,” and the tour was cut short and over by 3:30. With how much he expressed wanting to make as much money as he could, we think he was trying to pocket as much money as he could without having to pay another round of tasting fees. - When we asked him to take photos of our group, his response was “I don’t want to take a lot of photos, I want to go home.” - On two different occasions, my friends overheard him complaining about us to other shuttle drivers, during the winery visits. “I have 6 ladies and 2 couples, it’s been a long day,” was one of the statements we heard. Really professional. At least wait until they’re gone to complain about your clients. - At the second winery, Tom left to pick up sandwiches for the group, and he set a table with a wrapped sandwich with a number on it for each setting. We had pre-ordered the sandwiches, and some people had allergies. We asked which sandwich was which, if he had the list of who ordered what, or if he at least had a menu. He didn’t seem to care at all and gave us an attitude of “just eat what’s in front of you.” A few of us had to Google the menu and open the sandwiches, trading after we figured out what was what, and he had ordered the wrong sandwiches for some people. No apology or offer to make it right or to pick up another sandwich; he just walked away. It was absolutely shocking how rude, apathetic, and unprofessional this guy was. None of us could figure out why he was in this job, as he didn’t seem to enjoy it at all. Throughout the day, we encountered other tour drivers who chatted with us, ran over to offer to take photos of our group, and didn’t seem like they hated their tour groups or just saw them as dollar signs…… we looked longingly at those groups and wished we could join them instead. Looking back, we should have told Tom to leave us at the last vineyard so that we could Uber home or to another spot, and continue having fun without his attitude and negativity. I still can’t believe what a bad experience this was, and I hope Tom strongly considers changing professions because it’s obvious he doesn’t like this one or his clients.

Response from Host

Jul 2019

Things happen out of my control but there is no need to nit pick my about my tours they are simple and relaxing. I understand that your upset about the dinner but no need for the bad review. You were here just to get drunk and do the party seen 6 girls in the 30s . My tours are for people who want to learn about wines and history of the area and enjoy them selves. You girls were talking over me when I was trying to talk about the wines and with the other people in the van that wanted to learn. You prolong each of the stay at each winery by buying more glasses and bottles to drink that we stayed way over the time to be at next winery that we have appointments to as I says on my website an hour at each place.. Lunch was the same way when everybody was finish with the lunch went over and said go inside and use the restroom or buy a bottle of wine to take with you some of you just sat there when I was trying to clean the table to go to next winery that we were already late to because you ladies prolong the stay, Just like you did at the last winery the other couples were waiting on you ladies when it was time to go. You ladies had no consideration of time or the other people wanted to go to the next winery. At the end of the tour started to sing really loud from your phone. You put me and the other quests in a bad mood all day Next time you come up for a tour make sure you get a party bus. I am not.