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Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Napa Valley

By Platypus Wine Tours
Recommended by 97% of travelers
This number is based on the percentage of all Tripadvisor reviews for this product that have a bubble rating of 4 or higher
No one wants to be the designated driver on a winery tour, so instead of worrying about arranging transportation, book a small-group tour that transports you to three different wineries and ensures you make it back to your accommodations at the end of the day. Along the way, indulge in wine tastings (at your own expense) and enjoy a provided picnic lunch served with winery views.
from
$129.69
per adult
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$129.69
per adult
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Ages 21-99, max of 12 per group
Duration: 6h 30m
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Highlights
  • Visit four Napa Valley wineries on a small-group tour
  • Learn about the area’s history and the wine-making process from your guide
  • A picnic lunch ensures you aren’t drinking on an empty stomach
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off make the excursion hassle-free
  • 3 winery visits
  • Driver Tour Guide
  • Transport by small shuttle
  • Picnic lunch
  • Bottled water
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off within towns in tour region (Not San Francisco)
  • Fuel surcharge
  • Lunch
What's not included
  • Wine tasting fees ($20-$25 at each winery) per person
  • Gratuity for the guide (Suggested 18-20%) per person.
  • Groups of 5 or more traveling together will be charged a 20% gratuity for the guide at the end.
Departure details
  • Traveler pickup is offered.
  • Main Street & 5th Street, Main St & 5th St, Napa, CA 94559, USA
  • Hotel pickup is offered. View the hotel list on our checkout page to see if yours is included among the pickup points.
Return details
  • Returns to original departure point
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Service animals allowed
If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 6285P4
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Minimum age is 21 years
  • A maximum of 8 people per booking
  • Please call local operator after booking to provide a mobile phone number and an email address
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 12 travelers
  • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.
A note from Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Napa Valley
  • We are showing awesome (and COVID-safe) wine tours! Vehicles are frequently sanitized. Hand sanitizer on bus. Per CDC transportation guidelines, we recommend guests wear masks on board the tour shuttle. Safe, but still really fun.
What you can expect during your visit
  • Guides required to regularly wash hands
  • Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
  • Transportation vehicles regularly sanitized
  • Face masks required for guides in public areas
  • Face masks provided for travelers
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What is the Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Napa Valley cancellation policy?
Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Napa Valley cancellation policy: For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience. Discover and book Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Napa Valley on Tripadvisor
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Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Napa Valley is hosted by Platypus Wine Tours. Read reviews, discover additonal experiences or contact Platypus Wine Tours on Tripadvisor. Discover and book Small-Group Wine-Tasting Tour through Napa Valley on Tripadvisor
If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 6285P4
Itinerary
  • You'll start at
    Main Street & 5th Street
    Or, you can also get picked up
    See departure details
  • 1
    Napa Valley
    Stop: 6 hours
    Your tour will begin with pickup from your Napa Valley hotel. Where you are staying will define the tour region that you will be visiting.  If your accommodations are outside of the winery region, you can arrange to meet us a general meeting spot. You’ll visit three charming, backroads wineries and be served a picnic lunch in an idyllic winery setting. Your tour guide will tell fascinating stories and share many interesting tidbits about local history, culture and wine making.  This is not a smarmy or touristy activity. Our specialty is intimate, light-hearted and truly memorable. This tour is sure to entertain with a very approachable and easy-going style. Discover and savor new experiences tasting some of the world’s most celebrated wines. Our typical guest is not necessarily a wine expert but keen to learn a bit about wine and wine-making, and is open to sharing the experience with a few other like-minded wine adventurers.
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  • You'll return to the starting point
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By: Platypus Wine Tours
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Genuine winery experiences with the benefit of a local guide and bus!
If you’re looking to get off the beaten path and connect with local wine makers, this is the tour! Jared, our tour …
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Great Sonoma Trip
We had a fabulous time. Steve led us to 3 small wineries and we enjoyed each one. Steve was very informative and …
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Sonoma Russian River
Our driver, Rob was very friendly and knowledgeable about the vineyards we visited and wine in general. We had a fu…
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FUN INFORMATIVE WINE TOUR
Kelly took us to three wineries and they all offered different tastings & quality experiences. You are very good at…
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Great wine tasting tour in Sonoma
My wife and I had a great wine tasting tour in Sonoma. As it turned out, we were the only ones on the tour on this…
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Great tour
Great tour! We loved all three wineries that we visited and had a very enjoyable day. I would highly recommend th…
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A Sonoma Experience to Remember
Kelly Durant was our tour guide on the Sonoma Tour and everywhere we went it was evident that she was respected and…
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The Best Experience
We booked the tour (in advance) for our first day in Napa, and it was the perfect thing to do. Our driver was exce…
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10/10, will book again the next time we’re in town.
This was an amazing tour. We’ve been on several, and this one was one of the best. Jared was an awesome tour guide.…
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A great group experience
Rob, our tour guide was amazing. We had a group of 17 plus an infant and he made us all feel like royalty. He cater…
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Wonderful and Fun
My sisters and I went on this tour as a birthday celebration. We had so much fun! The tour Stephen Johnson guide wa…
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The grape experience
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Margot Aicklen
Atlanta, GA15 contributions
Awesome way to see Napa Valley in a day!
Feb 2023 • Couples
We had a great time exploring the 3 wineries that were chosen for this tour. Our guide, Gary, was very knowledgeable about the wineries and about wine in general. We had a great time with the other people on our tour. The wineries that we visited were not the typical touristy wineries you think of in Napa. They were more boutique and each of them gave us a little bit of a different experience which was great. We learned a TON about wine and the different vineyards of Napa valley. We ended up buying a few bottles at every winery which waived our tasting fees. It was a great deal! Gary made it super easy for us to ship everything back safe and sound with our airline. Highly recommend doing this tour if you are in Napa for a short period and don’t want to worry about driving around and picking wineries to go to.
Written February 5, 2023
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Alia G
1 contribution
Fun Day of Wine-ing
Apr 2022
Fun day cruising around Norther Napa / Calistoga tasting small production wines with fun folks! Stopped at 3 boutique wineries where we had intimate tastings at each location.

We started at Paoletti where our tasting was inside the wine cave. Pretty cool experience since Paoletti wine caves have "busts" of all types of figures from Gandhi to Einstein to Marilyn Monroe to everyone in between throughout the caves. ha!

Then we went to Hans Fahden... probably the prettiest winery in the area! Every picture is Instagram worthy. I can see why it's a popular location for a wedding. We tasted wines in their cave as well and then finished our tasting on their terrace along with our lunch. Lunch was simple but delicious! I actually brought additional snacks with me to munch on in between wineries too.

Our last stop was Madrigal. We enjoyed an outdoor tasting which was a large, covered patio area that you could sit back enjoy the view of the valley. Very relaxing!

All of the wineries offered different varietals, but for the most part it was Reds. So, if you are not a Red wine drinker, definitely let the office know when you book so they can keep that in mind when they coordinate with the driver. The driver selects the wineries. Note: let them know where you have been before as they are good at trying to accommodate everyone and visit new places.

Note... tasting fees ranged from $25-40 per person. The tasting fee at Paoletti was not refundable with purchase whereas the others would waive the tasting fee depending on how many bottles you purchased. Each place we tasted probably 5-7 wines at each place. I'm glad we only went to 3 places... it's a lot of wine to taste even if you are pouring them out after a couple little sips. Some we definitely did NOT pour out because they were so good we were savoring every little drop.

Any purchases were well organized by our driver, Gary!

The van was big and spacious with only 10 people in it. Note, if you get car sick, I would not recommend sitting in the back of the bus as it bounced and swayed quite a bit. There was a cooler of water so definitely take advantage of that and keep hydrated in between wineries!
Written April 18, 2022
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Tom L
Sunnyvale, CA26 contributions
Great host! Planned to a tee!
Mar 2023
Our host, Kelly, was superb! With an outstanding service attitude, friendly, but professional demeanor. She planned our day very well, well thought-out, picking a variety of wineries with different personalities, and of course, all with excellent wine! Clean, comfortable large van, excellent, comfortable driving, she ferried us from place to place while keeping us informed of what will be happening and managing our expectations. The price was very fair, and I think I made a smart choice hiring Platypus and would hire them again next time. Heartily recommended!
Written March 14, 2023
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Sushar
San Jose, CA852 contributions
Custom designed tours with great service
Sep 2020
We had a great experience on a personal custom designed tour to Napa valley last Fall. The staff worked with us upfront to understand our tastes and preferences of wines and wineries and came up with a short-list of wineries and tours to pick from. They were patient as we went back and forth to select the wineries and communicated our itinerary clearly a few days before the tour.

On the day of the tour, the driver/ guide was on time and shared a lot of information about Napa valley and the wineries as he ensured we had a fun day. All the wineries on the tour were very good and unique and we thoroughly enjoyed our day. All Covid related protocols were followed and we felt completely safe in the tour vehicle.
Written August 28, 2021
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Don R
It's so great to hear your private tour with us was such a success, Sushar, and that our process for helping you select your ideal wineries made sense and worked out so well! Our private tour team is dedicated to providing this result, and they are great at working hand-in-hand with our tour guides to make sure the experience is seamless and completely enjoyable for our tour guests. We're all grateful that you chose to tour with us, and also for your kind words!
Written October 20, 2021
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Sue L
Gold Coast, Australia93 contributions
Absolutely a Top Tour
Jan 2023
What made this tour so special -
Our tour bus was clean, comfortable and enabled people to interact easily.
Our driver Steve was superb, well organised and knowledgeable
The vineyards visited were boutique and interesting with superb wine
The vineyard owners were enthusiastic about their wine and generous with the tastings
The ability to purchase wine and negate tasting fees worked exceptionally well
Our picnic lunch was excellent quality and quantity, enjoyed with an Austin and James 1001 Chardonnay on the back deck of the tasting room
Wine purchases were stored and labelled by Steve to ensure safe travel
Steve provide a superb commentary throughout our journey to ensure we had more to experience in the Napa Valley and we would all return
Yes, we will. ‼️‼️
Written February 3, 2023
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Jade J
Sheringham, UK13 contributions
Great Napa wine tour
We had a great time on our Napa wine tour with Dave J. He was punctual for pick up time, courteous and professional throughout the entire day. He was very knowledgeable about the area and was extremely helpful too. We had a great group of 10 - be prepared to chat to others as this really makes the experience!

Water was provided throughout the day as was a (much better than expected) Turkey Club.

We visited some great wineries: Varozza, AuburnJames and Girard. We loved Varozza and AuburnJames in particular due to the passion they had for their wine! We really enjoyed our experiences at the smaller wineries and this was what we were looking for but it was too overwhelming to find these ourselves!

There are fees on top of the tour - as advertised - but these are considerably less than other tours at around $25 and can usually be waived with a purchase.

We couldn’t recommend this enough. Do it. We will when we visit again!
Written August 24, 2022
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Bob L
Maumee, OH2 contributions
High hopes but disappointed.
Very basic tour. Guide gave a little background on the region the first 30 minutes and then was pretty much radio silent for the rest of the trip. She played the music pretty loud on the way home which made it a little more difficult to converse. She pretty much turned into a bus driver after the very beginning of the trip. Tastings were average at best at the three wineries we stopped at. Our small group of 10 were lots of fun with good interaction throughout the day. Box lunch was good.
As it was our first trip to Napa we expected to get a little more of the “Napa feel”from the experience. We stopped at the Castillo di Amorosa today and it was a night and day experience. Guide was very knowledgeable and engaging and provided a much more quality experience.
Written June 1, 2022
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Don R
Yikes. I am so sorry our tour guide was not a heck of a lot more engaging that day. This exactly the experience we always try to avoid. I will try to figure out which of our staff hosted your tour so that I can work with her to make sure such a thing won't happen again. If you are willing to reach out to me, I would be very grateful to speak with you about this directly. Thanks so much for making me aware that we have this issue!
Written July 20, 2022
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Mike D
White Pine, TN11 contributions
Napa trip for my wife
Jul 2020
This tour was probably the highlight of our trip. Visited Napa and SF for my wife's birthday. Planned this wine tour about 1 month before departure. Easy to schedule, no hassles Pick up was at our Napa bed and breakfast. Bob our guide and dont think he could have done a better job. Very nice fellow. Made it clear up front for everyone to stay on the "straight and narrow" but did it in a very accommodating way. Had 6 people on our trip, perfect size. Everyone laid back and jovial. Beautiful day. Went to 3 different wineries and we really liked the variety of the 3. Ended up buying wine at each location. Tasting fees usually about $15 for this trip per tasting but waved as we bought wine. Some wine is 15-20$ per bottle so??? Everyone drank the tastings of course but no one near intoxication. We started around 10 am and got to first winery not long afterwards so be sure to eat a hardy breakfast. Again, a great service I would recommend highly to anyone wanting to see and taste a few great wineries.
Written July 13, 2020
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Kim S
Philadelphia, PA21 contributions
Wonderful small wine tour
Sep 2021
We went to 3 small wineries and a very small group. Only 10 people. Our tour guide Steve was awesome. Very knowledgeable and seemed to love his job. My son and his girlfriend arranged this trip for my husband and I and themselves. The 4 of us had a wonderful day. Everything was perfectly timed and organized. We had lunch at our 2nd winery. We visited the Varozza, Hans Fahden and Madrigal wineries. Steve said they were selected because they were small wineries and we could sample some small batch wines. Everywhere we went the service was excellent and very individual. I would highly recommend Platypus Tours and especially Steve!
Written September 20, 2021
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Don R
Steve Hunter is our master story-teller. You will never meet a kinder or more easy-going tour guide. He has lots of information to share, but you'll never realize you're learning so much because he is just so low-key about it. I'm really glad you got to experience Steve's tour, Kim. Thanks very much for posting about it!
Written October 20, 2021
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Verona Marie
Los Angeles, CA8 contributions
Amazing Customer Service
Nov 2020 • Couples
Due to COVID-19, my group & I were unable to make it for our wine tastings (or NAPA in general). Not only were we fully refunded for our deposits, we were kindly followed-up with a call asking if we received those funds back in our account. Although we didn’t get the opportunity to encounter this wonderful group of people and staff, they have made us highly likely to come back and recommend their services to everyone. This is the way you should treat your customers... they definitely left an impact on our group and we will be back when it’s less chaotic! Thank you Platypus Wine Group!
Written November 24, 2020
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Don R
Cheers, Hiverona: We're ready whenever you decide to reschedule your trip. Thanks for helping to illustrate how comforting it is to deal with people who are understanding when your plans sometimes go sideways. Hope to see you soon!
Written February 23, 2021
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