Tour Details
Picks up from most Sonoma Valley and downtown Napa lodging properties. Meeting locations available for those driving to the area.
10:00am – 10:30am for most locations
6.5 hours or so
Around 8-12
Tour Description
Sonoma Valley is known for its picturesque rolling hills and rustic oak trees, along with a very charming town plaza, complete with one of California’s famed and historic Franciscan missions Sonoma State Historic Park. It also boasts a mild coastal climate and numerous lovely wineries dotting the landscape.
This small-group tour will be a fun, relaxing day visiting a curated selection of intimate lesser-known wineries. Your tour guide will share stories and anecdotes, as well as imparting just the right amount of details about winemaking and grape growing. It’s a social experience, with most of our guests making new friends by the end of the day.
- Visits three smaller and/or family-owned winery properties.
- Pick-up and drop-off at your hotel or other point of origin.
- Access to explore the winery grounds and see various aspects of the winemaking process.
- Tasty picnic box lunch, served on the grounds at a scenic winery.
- Brief stories, anecdotes and engaging winemaking insights will be shared by your driver/guide.
- Wherever possible, we’ll arrange access to winery owners / winemakers.
- Winery tasting fees (For our small-group tour guests, wineries offer a significantly discounted tasting fee of $25 per person, per winery. This fee is usually waived for anyone purchasing wine or joining that winery’s wine club).
- Driver/Guide gratuity (Driver tipping is at your discretion, except for parties of 5 or more traveling together. A 20% gratuity will be added for those groups).
Frequently Asked Questions
You may cancel your join-in tour reservation anytime up to 24 hours before the tour with no penalty. Cancellation fee of $35 per person will apply to any cancellations made within 24 hours of tour departure.
If you choose to taste at the winery, they will charge you a tasting fee. These fees typically run about $25 per person, per winery, but each fee is often waived with wine purchase or by joining their wine club.
Each of our tours heads off to a different selection of wineries (so many to choose from…) Have you already seen a few? Please let us know which ones when you book your tour so that we can make sure not to repeat any.
Our vehicles are small tour shuttles. They have perimeter seating, like a conversation pit, so guests can better get to know each other, and better take in fabulous scenery.
Yes…well, maybe. Some private addresses are inaccessible or too remote for our shuttles. Please call us with the address and we’ll check for you. This tour often picks up in the towns of Sonoma, Glen Ellen, Kenwood, & downtown Napa.
Some folks drive in to our nearest meeting location. Some book a private tour instead, since we have a much wider pick-up radius for those.
We have a commercial kitchen on site with a culinary team, so we can generally accommodate most food allergies or dietary restrictions.