Santa Ynez Valley: Private Wine Country Tour
4.8
5 Ratings
Santa Barbara
Experience the Santa Ynez Valley wine country with a private tour including tastings at three local wineries, lunch options, and knowledgeable guides. Customize your own wine tour for a unique experience!
Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Santa Barbara - Meet your guide at your central Santa Barbara hotel and board a comfortable air-conditioned luxury passenger van. Enjoy the views as you leave the city behind and head into the Santa Ynez Valley to explore the vineyard filled countryside.

Pick ups are also available from Santa Ynez Valley and Solvang.

  • Santa Ynez Valley - Explore the stunning vineyards and quaint towns of the Santa Ynez Valley while our guide shares some of the history and wine production secrets of the valley. We will visit three full production wineries and lunch will be enjoyed amidst the vineyards.

We spend about an hour at each winery and allow approximately an hour for lunch at one of those stops.

We have a few “local favorites” that we may visit on this tour, with great reviews from our clients and guides. You can read more about our partner wineries on our website.
~Andrew Murray Vineyards
~Beckmen Vineyard
~Brander Vineyard
~Dragonette (Tasting Room)
~Epiphany Cellars (Tasting Room)
~Firestone Vineyard
~Four Brother Wine Co (Tasting Room)
~Gainey Winery
~Kalyra Winery
~Koehler Winery
~Lincourt Vineyards
~Rideau Vineyard
~Roblar Winery
~Saarloos and Sons (Tasting Room)
~Story of Soil
~Sunstone Winery
~Vincent Vineyards

What's Included
  • All taxes included
  • 15% automatic gratuity for the guide
  • Complimentary bottled water
  • Snacks provided
  • Tasting fees covered at three wineries
  • Lunch is included
Additional Information

This is an enchanting, picturesque journey through California’s Central Coast Wine Region that’s a must-see for all wine enthusiasts! On this trip, you get to sample wines at three local vineyards, enjoy a lovely lunch*, and benefit from door-to-door shuttle service with a well-informed guide by your side. Your guide will share interesting narratives about the local history and the Santa Ynez wine region as you go. Looking for a bespoke wine tour for your party? Our team is here to assist! If you’re after something exceptional, let us know and we can create a custom plan for your wine trail.

*Please Note: Due to winery rules on weekends, lunch is not provided on Saturdays or Sundays. However, there will be options for lunch that you can buy at the vineyards.

Location
1 Garden St
Garden Street
Our guide will meet you in the lobby of your hotel, or, if meeting at the starting point, they will meet you just outside the Visitor's Center.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Maryjw0rd
Jul 15, 2023
The Best wine tour - Our wine guide was absolutely wonder his knowledge of wines and the areas was great we learned so much and ge took the time to make our tour to our personal likes I will be back
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Emilygab
Jun 29, 2023
Highly recommend + Sunny is the real MVP - This was truly amazing!!! We did this for a bachelorette party and it was well worth the money. We loved all 3 wineries and our lunch was incredible! Our guide, Sunny, was THE BEST!!!! She made the whole trip so fun and knew so much about wine and the area! Highly recommend!
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Lorraineds6543yz
Apr 16, 2023
Outstanding wine tour! - Very well organized, responsive to questions; Willing to adapt tour to our group preferences. Warm, personal informative guides! Definitely one of the highlights of our week visit to Santa Barbara!
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81edc
Sep 27, 2022
Fantastic Day! - This tour was terrific! Sunny our guide was incredible. I had my wife, 3 kids, and spouses and we had absolutely blast. If you have a day to spare in Santa Barbara, take this tour with Sunny! You will not be disappointed!
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Dclikestotravel
Nov 26, 2019
Great day out - sensational picnic lunch - Originally booked a bike tour with the company however bike tour required a minimum of 4 so we were swapped to private tour of Santa Ynez Valley. Tour company was excellent informing us when we made booking and giving us options. We kept it open in case more booked but day prior they gave us option of refund as well the swap (which we accepted). Tour itself was nice way to spend day. Pleasant drive and countryside. Tour guide was friendly and gave us a lot of information about the area. The picnic lunch was amazing - really wholesale, tasty sandwich. Nice touch was table laid out with tablecloth all surrounded by vineyards. Some opportunities to improve would be reduced length of time at smaller vineyards - a tasting can be done in 20 mins or so and if no option to buy glass of wine waiting around can be a bit boring. It would have been nice to spend some time in the town where the shops were instead of longer at the small wineries.
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