REVIEWS · PRIVATE DRIVERS
Good private wine car days fill up weeks ahead and the great ones go first, harvest season worst of all. Below: the 9 to book early, what each includes and how they differ.
Visit three Santorini wineries, taste local wines, tour a cave museum, enjoy caldera views, and learn island winemaking with transfers included.
“enjoyed learning about nature of land that grapes are grown in. friendly and knowledgeable guide”
Review of Malaga’s organic vineyard tour with six wines, tapas, countryside views, small-group transport, and practical booking advice.
“Excellent tour,- lot of fun , vine and snacks, very interesting tour guide Antonio. Highly recommended.”
Review of Malaga’s intimate organic vineyard tour with six low-intervention wines, tapas, barrel tasting, mountain views, and private transport.
“Our guide, Bea, was excellent- very good English and so enthusiastic about the wine, the winemaker Antonio, and Andalucia. We were a group of 4 which made it a very nice intimate experience. It was lovely to have our aperitif in Antonio’s garden - unfortunately the grapes had already been picked so it wasn’t particularly scenic but we enjoyed the wine and meeting his dog Thomas, who features on the label of one of his wines. After the aperitif we went to the small industrial unit where all the work is done. A table had been laid out with 5 bottles of wine and 5 glasses per person. There was…”
Sunrise hot-air balloon flight over Pamukkale with hotel transfers, travertine views, a nonalcoholic toast, and a flight certificate.
“Excelente! Buen piloto y su equipo de ayudantes son muy serviciales. Imperdible experiencia!…me encantó”
Review of a private Cape Winelands tour from Cape Town, with Fairview cheese, Plaisir wine, Muratie chocolate, lunch, and flexible pickup.
“Our guide was great, very positive about South Africa and knowledgeable about wine. We were very delayed due to an accident on the motorway and didn’t get to do all the wine farms on the schedule, but Paul made it a special day nonetheless. Lots of lovely wines, a diversion to Plaisir highly recommended.”
Ride a hop-on-hop-off tractor through Stellenbosch wine country, with tastings, farm stops, scenic back roads, and flexible pacing.
“The tour was very efficiently organized, the system of hopping on & off allows great flexibility in how you want to personalize your trip ….. when and where you want a tasting, enjoy your lunch, want to stay longer or shorter on a specific farm. Great value for money and great hospitality, guidance and interaction with staff and guides. 👍👍👍👍👍”
Review of Seattle’s 7-hour Snoqualmie Falls and Woodinville winery tour, with hotel pickup, small groups, snacks, scenic stops, and tasting advice.
“Daniel was a wonderful guide! He was extremely knowledgeable about each of our stops and did everything possible to make our experience memorable.”
Review of Alicante’s small-group wine tour with winery visits, three or four wines, tapas, transfers, and multilingual guides.
“bonne expérience, exellente dégustation et visite avec un guide, transport propre, tapas en accord avec les vins, possibilité d achats a la fin. bonne conduite du transport par le chauffeur, bonne communication et ponctuel dans les horaires”
Ride through Tuscany from Florence, then tour a historic wine estate and taste four local wines with a small group and round-trip transfer.
“The best 5+ star tour to take when in Florence, just loved it! After few wine tours and cooking classes I had taken this tour has been the best of them all. Our quide Riccardo is the sweetest and nicest guy ever and the ride through picturesque mountainous sites of Tuscany is must see. Horses are calm and very well managed by Graziella who accompanied us all along so ever a beginner-rider like me felt safe all along. The ride takes about an hour and then we returned to the ranch to jump off the horses and Riccardo drove us to the beautiful winery located in the old castle. It…”
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