Best Wine Tour Company (2020)

Grapeline Wine Tours offers both group and private tours of some of California’s top wine regions, including Napa Valley, Paso Robles, Santa Barbara, Sonoma Valley and Temecula. Classic Wine Adventures include tastings at three area wineries, as well as a behind-the-scenes vintner’s tour, while a Vineyard Picnic Tour takes guests to four wineries and includes a catered picnic lunch.
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Perata Luxury Tours specializes in personalized wine tours in Napa and Sonoma Valleys. Guests enjoy access to small production and boutique wineries that might otherwise be difficult to find. The fleet consists of custom Sprinter-style limousine vans and Chevrolet Suburban Premier Plus Edition SUV that are thoroughly cleaned after each tour.
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Cork & Keg Tours offers pre-curated “cluster” tours of area wineries or breweries in the Potomac, Mosby, Snickers Gap, Loudoun Heights, Harmony or Waterford regions, or allows customers to create individual itineraries. Tour in a Mercedes Sprinter outfitted with two HD TVs and a sparkling wine bar. Tours include a sparkling wine toast, pickup and drop-off and visits to two or three wineries.
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Each tour with this Atlanta wine tour company includes tasting fees, a gourmet picnic lunch, chauffeured transportation in a luxury coach and a full day of wine tasting fun. Chuck and La Tanya, the husband and wife team behind Pop The Cork Wine Tours, have more than a decade of experience leading tasting tours in California before they relocated to Georgia to seek out local wineries.
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Bliss Wine Tours offers private service in Napa and Sonoma. Visitors can customize their experience from a selection of more than 1,000 tasting experiences, including lesser known wineries. Most tours last six to eight hours and include tastings at three to four wineries, plus a picnic lunch.
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Uncorked Wine Tours takes visitors on tasting experiences in Paso Robles or Edna Valley in San Luis Obispo. Group tours include reservations at wineries, lunch and a complimentary water bottle. For a more personalized experience, opt for a customized tour, which might include a vineyard tour, wine and cheese pairing, cave tour or a picnic lunch.
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Platypus Wine Tours offers both private and small group tours through Napa and Sonoma wine country. Wallet-friendly Join-in Wine Tours include visits to three backroads wineries, as well as a vineyard picnic. Visitors can also combine their wine tour with an early morning hot air balloon flight over Napa Valley.
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Experience! The Finger Lakes has been leading wine tours through the Finger Lakes region of New York for more than 13 years. Guests enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at a winery, as well as curated tasting experiences not typically available to the general public. Choose between tours of Cayuga Lake, Seneca Lake, Ithaca or Keuka Lake.
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Sustainable Wine Tours offers exclusive access to private wineries, estates and vineyards throughout Santa Barbara Wine Country; guests never sip wine in a public location on these tours. Each tour, whether small-group or private, includes tasting fees, a winery tour and an organic picnic lunch.
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The Wine Wrangler, the first wine tour company in Paso Robles, offers half and full-day tours to some of the region’s top wineries. Tours include a picnic lunch, bottled water, visits to four to six wineries (for full-day tours), a winery tour and an introduction to wine tasting lesson.
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