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Spend the day where the wine is made.
Chianti cellars above Florence, terraced quintas in the Douro, grand-cru chateaux in Bordeaux, Malbec bodegas under the Andes. Reviews of the vineyard and winery tours worth booking, in the wine regions worth building a trip around.
Worth a trip for the wine alone
Three regions to plan a trip around.
Some places you visit for the museums. Tuscany, the Douro and Barcelona you visit for the vines: the hillside estates, the river-terraced quintas, the cava cellars an hour from the city. These are the regions travellers come home talking about.
Italy
Tuscany
An hour south of Florence the road climbs into Chianti: cypress lines, hilltop villages and family estates where Sangiovese has been made for generations. A day trip strings together two or three of them, a cellar walk and a tasting at each, a long lunch of pecorino, ribollita and Brunello in between. Few day trips put as much postcard countryside in a glass.
- 1 Tuscany Day Trip from Florence: Siena, San Gimignano, Pisa and Lunch at a Winery
- 2 From Florence: Siena, San Gimignano, Pisa & Lunch at Winery
- 3 Half day Chianti Vineyard Escape from Florence with Wine Tastings
Portugal
Douro Valley
The world’s oldest demarcated wine region rises in stone terraces straight from the Douro river, an hour or two east of Porto. A day trip visits two or three quintas for tastings of port and the increasingly serious dry reds, breaks for lunch over the water and very often comes home by boat. The scenery alone would justify the drive; the wine makes it unmissable.
- 1 Porto: Douro Valley with Winery Lunch, Tastings & Cruise
- 2 Douro Valley Tour: 2 Vineyard Visits, River Cruise, Winery Lunch
- 3 Douro Valley with Two Winery, Boat Trip and Lunch From Porto
Spain
Barcelona
Barcelona sits inside an hour of two great wine countries: the cava cellars of the Penedes, where Spain’s sparkling is aged in cathedral-like underground galleries, and the terraced vineyards around the monastery of Montserrat. A half-day trip pairs a cellar tour and tasting with the mountain views, and has you back in the city by evening.
- 1 Montserrat with Black Madonna & Medieval Winery with Tapas/Lunch
- 2 Barcelona: Montserrat and Winery Tour with Tapas or Lunch
- 3 Montserrat Full Day Tour with Farmhouse Lunch and Winery Visit
If you only book one
The wine tour more travellers rave about than any other.
Out of every vineyard and winery tour on the site, this is the one that sends people home telling everyone they know to book it.
The crowd-pleasers
The Most Popular Wine Tours Right Now
Tuscan Chianti days, Douro Valley cruises, Saint-Emilion chateaux, Napa cabernet estates. The bookings travellers are happiest they made.
Start with a region
The best wine tours, region by region.
Tuscany for the Chianti hills, the Douro for the river quintas, Bordeaux for the grand-cru chateaux. Pick the region you are headed to and we will show you the wine tours worth booking there.
Which kind of wine country
Three very different days in the vines.
The first question is what kind of wine country you are after. Each of these is a style the site covers deeply, and a completely different day waiting at the end of it.
Tuscany
Sangiovese, cypress lines and a long lunch.
An hour south of Florence the road climbs into Chianti and on to Montalcino, where family estates have made Sangiovese for generations. A day trip walks you through the vines and into the cellars, pours Chianti Classico and Brunello on a terrace, and breaks for a long Tuscan lunch in between. The countryside in the glass is the whole point.
See the best Tuscany wine tours →Douro Valley
Where the vines drop straight to the river.
East of Porto the Douro climbs in dry-stone terraces from the water, the oldest demarcated wine region on earth. A day trip calls at two or three quintas for tastings of port and the dry Douro reds the valley now makes its name on, breaks for lunch over the river, and very often runs the last stretch home by boat. The drive in is half the experience.
See the best Douro Valley wine tours →Napa & Sonoma
Cult cabernet, an hour north of the city.
Wine country starts barely an hour from San Francisco: Napa for the big, polished cabernets and the marquee estates, Sonoma for the rambling, down-to-earth ranches next door. A day trip hops two or three tasting rooms with a driver who knows which doors to knock on, so the only decision left is red or white.
See the best Napa & Sonoma wine tours →Bordeaux
Grand-cru chateaux and a medieval village.
Bordeaux is wine on a grand scale: the gravel-soil chateaux of the Medoc on the left bank, the merlot estates and the honey-stone village of Saint-Emilion on the right. A day trip pairs cellar tours and tastings at two estates with the driving handled, so the great names pour one after another.
- 1 Saint Emilion Half-Day Trip with Wine Tasting & Winery Visit from Bordeaux
- 2 Medoc Region Wine Day Trip with Vineyard Visits & Tastings from Bordeaux
- 3 Médoc Region Half-Day Wine Tour with Winery Visit & Tastings from Bordeaux
By the glass
How far do you want to roam?
One Chianti estate and a long Tuscan lunch. Two Bordeaux chateaux and a medieval village. The whole Douro Valley by road and river. Pick the day that sounds like your kind of time in the vines.
Take it slow
Tuscany, one estate, one long lunch.A single Chianti winery at its own pace: a walk through the vines, a cellar where the Sangiovese ages, four or five pours on a terrace and a plate of pecorino and cured meats. Everything you came for, nothing rushed.
Make a day of it
Bordeaux, two chateaux and the village.A morning at a grand-cru estate in the Medoc, then on to Saint-Emilion for the second tasting and a wander through the medieval village. A guide handles the driving so the pours are the only thing you have to think about.
Go all in
The Douro, top to bottom.A full day up the valley from Porto: two or three terraced quintas, a tasting of port and the dry Douro reds at each, lunch over the river and the stretch home by boat. The whole region in a single, unforgettable day.
Mendoza
Malbec, with the Andes for a backdrop.
Argentina’s wine country sits a mile high at the foot of the Andes, where long sunny days and cool mountain nights make the deep, plummy Malbec the country is known for. A day trip from Mendoza visits two or three bodegas in Luján de Cuyo or the Uco Valley, pairs the tastings with a long Argentine lunch, and keeps the snow-capped peaks in view the whole time.
See all 2 Mendoza wine tours →By region
Pick a region to build a trip around.
Tuscany for the Chianti hills. The Douro for the river terraces. Barcelona for the cava cellars. Bordeaux for the great chateaux. Santorini for the volcanic whites. Mendoza for the Andes Malbec.
More regions
More regions worth a weekend in the vines.
The Ribera reds near Madrid, Etna’s volcanic slopes in Sicily, the cellar doors of Santa Barbara, the syrah of Hawke’s Bay. The rest of the wine map, ready when you are.
Three regions, three perfect days
Pick a region, plan the day around the vines.
A Chianti hill day out of Florence, a grand-cru morning in Bordeaux, a river-and-quinta day up the Douro. Three regions, three very different ways to spend a day in wine country.
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