Quick Details
- Duration: Approximately 7 hours
- Tour Times: 10 am daily
Your Luxury Yarra Valley Wine Tasting Experience
Join us on a private, customized, small group tour of the wine regions near Melbourne! Your experienced tour host creates an itinerary personalised to you. While we specialise in smaller boutique wineries, we know the mainstream ones just as well. Every Melbourne winery tour includes transport, wine tastings, and lunch.
On the day of your tour, we pick up your small group of up to seven people anywhere in the Melbourne area in our luxury car, or we meet you in the wine region. Your itinerary remains flexible. If you find a place you love, we can stay there for as long as you like! If you decide you’d like to stop at a bakery or chocolaterie, we’re happy to oblige.
Recommended Tour Regions
We take you anywhere within reasonable driving distance. Australia is home to amazing wine producing regions and there’s no better way to enjoy the wines made here than on a customised wine tour with Executive Wine Tours. Our favourite wine regions include:
- Coonawarra
- Geelong and Bellarine
- Macedon / Kyneton / Heathcote
- Mornington Peninsula
- Nagambie
- Rutherglen
- Yarra Valley
Important Information
- Wine for consumption and premium tastings are excluded from the cost
- Children accompanied by an adult are OK
- Cancellations with 24 hours notice will receive a full refund
- Please contact us to enquire about groups larger than five people
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This stunning region is just an hour away from Melbourne city. Beautiful coastlines touch the wine valleys, making it a great place to explore and to see the best of Victoria.
Red Hill is in the heart of the Mornington peninsula, and produces some of Australia’s best Pinots and Chardonnays.
Suggested and Customisable Itinerary:
- 10.00 Pick-up from your home or hotel in Melbourne.
- 11.00 Visit Yabby Lake to enjoy the wines and the views. Highly awarded producer.
- 12.00 9-course lunch at Foxeys hangout. With wine of course. (Note – not open every day, but lots of alternatives)
- 14.00 Wine tasting at Paringa Estate.
- 15.00 Wine tasting at Point Leo Estate. Then, enjoy the spectacular grounds and sculpture exhibition.
- 18.00 Drop-off at home or hotel
From $169 per person
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Rutherglen is the home of fortified wine, and the ports/muscats/topaques are the equal of any you could find worldwide. In addition to fortified wine, there are many other excellent wines to savour in the north east of Victoria. The durif is wonderful.
Suggested and Customisable Itinerary:
Day 1
- 9.30 Pick-up from your home or hotel in Melbourne
- 12.00 Wine tasting and lunch at Baileys of Glenrowan
- 14.30 Wine tasting at Campbells and Stanton & Killeen
- 17.00 Check-in and freshen up at Tuileries
- 19.00 Dinner at the Victoria hotel
Day 2
- 08.30 Breakfast in the hotel
- 10.00 Wine tasting at All Saints Estate
- 11.00 Wine tasting at Jones
- 14.00 Wine tasting and lunch at Fowles winery
- 17.30 Arrive Melbourne
From $499 per person, twin share
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The Yarra Valley boasts more than 100 fine wineries, many with excellent dining facilities. The most popular wine touring region in Victoria, it is less than an hour from Melbourne.
Yarra Glen
Many of the Yarra Valleys most popular wineries are near the township of Yarra Glen. The cellar doors in this itinerary are all set in magnificent garden settings.
Suggested Customisable Itinerary:
- 10.00 Pick-up from your home or hotel in Melbourne
- 11.00 Wine tasting at Yering Station, the region’s oldest winery
- 12.00 Lunch at Meletos
- 13.30 Champagne tasting at Domain Chandon
- 14.15 Chocolaterie visit
- 15.00 Wine and food tasting Yileena Park, a great boutique winery
- 17.30 Drop-off at home or hotel – kangaroo spotting on the trip back
From $169 per person
Seville
Seville is on the Warburton highway, in a very picturesque part of the Yarra Valley.
Suggested Customisable Itinerary:
- 10.00 Pick-up from your home or hotel in Melbourne
- 11.00 Wine tasting at Seville Hill and Paynes Rise
- 13.00 Wine tasting and lunch at Seville estate
- 15.00 Champagne at Domain Chandon
- 17.30 Drop-off at home or hotel
$169 per person
Nillumbik
The Nillumbik wine region is part of the broader Yarra Valley wine region, and the closest to the city of Melbourne. There are some real wine gems to be found here. Note – this tour available weekends only.
Suggested Customisable Itinerary:
- 10.00 Pick-up from your home or hotel.
- 11.oo Wine tasting at Panton Hill winery – you will think you are in Tuscany when you see the magnificent stone buildings.
- 12.30 Wine tasting and lunch at Nillumbik estate. The pizza is wonderful (and of course the wine). And the views. And the wonderful staff.
- 14.30 You choose from Kings, Lovegrove, Shaws road, Easthill Estate, Wedgetail Estate, and others.
- 17.30 Drop-off at home or hotel
From $169 per person
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Yarra Valley Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery
Enjoy abundant free chocolate tastings. Watch the European chocolatiers handcraft over 250 different chocolate products. Indulge in a delicious selection of ice creams. Relax at a café specialising in decadent sweet treats and let the children run and play in the expansive lawns and gardens.
Healesville Sanctuary
Healesville sanctuary is a haven for Australia’s native flora and fauna. Get up close to a kangaroo or cuddle a koala.
Coldstream Brewery
Coldstream brewery specialises in handcrafted beers and ciders. Tasting flights are available for both.