Private Tours

We were received nicely with attention to our specific needs and wants coupled with educational information.

Just returned from a great personal wine tour of the Mornington Peninsula with Trevor of Wine Tours Victoria. My wife & I had a very informative and enjoyable day. The personal experience arranged by Trevor at the Tucks Ridge, Stonier, Merricks General Store & Willow Creek was well worth the moderate premium to have our private tours vs even a small group. Highly recommended.

We booked a private Yarra Valley winery tour last Saturday to celebrate a 22 year bridal party reunion. Trevor was our host driver. We had an excellent day visiting Coombe Farm, Chandon, Dominic Portet, lunch at Tokar Estate and finishing at De Borteli. It was great not having to worry about driving or navigating, just sit back and enjoy the reunion and the magnificent Yarra Valley scenery. Trevor is very knowledgeable on the area and wines. He was the perfect host for us. We all highly recommend Wine Tours Victoria and are looking forward to another wine tour with them in the future. Thanks again Trevor.

Prior to making our trip to Australia in January we knew we wanted to take a wine tour and I reached out to three companies in October. Of the three companies I traded email with, only Wine Tours Victoria followed up two weeks later to ask if I had any more questions or if they could still assist. All three were highly rated so this one factor differentiated this company from the competition and is the reason I chose them over the others.

I booked the tour only a few weeks before our trip and was told they could accommodate, but we might have a tour of up to 11 people. When Trevor picked us up from the door of our hotel we learned our group of four were the only people on the van and we had a private tasting tour.

Trevor was excellent, we found him pleasant, knowledgeable, and unfiltered; Trevor would give us a front of mind answer to any question and I found this quite refreshing. His van was pristine, a very large Mercedes mini-van that was extremely comfortable.

We road for a little under an hour from Melbourne to Mornington Peninsula and stopped at a small park for a break. Trevor broke out tea, pressed fresh coffee, and offered a breakfast cake for everyone to enjoy. Then we packed up and headed off to our first tasting flight. Trevor seemed to know the winery staff well and we found them very enjoyable. The wines were very good as well. Next we headed to a combination tasting room, market, and restaurant. We had another flight of wine, and it was very interesting because as a market we tasted wines from many different wineries. Then we headed into the restaurant for our lunch reservation. There were about four lunch choices offered and we started with an antipasto plate. Everyone enjoyed the food. A glass of wine was included, and we purchased another glass with our meal. The lunch was a very good part of the tasting trip.

Next Trevor asked whether we would like to try one of his regular stops or venture out, roll the dice, and try a place he’s not visited before. We chose the new place and stopped in a very small boutique winery. It was beautiful, charming really. The owner was pouring wine and talking about her wines, which were made off-premises by someone else. It was really pleasant, although we really didn’t like her wines. I talked at lunch about my personal policy of buying a bottle of wine any time we tasted but I couldn’t bring myself to buy a bottle there. Still, I’m glad we saw the grounds, and I hope all the best for the owner.

Our final stop on the tour was my favorite winery. Again we approached a stunning landscape that reminded me a lot of our beautiful wine country in Oregon. The tasting room was large and we were attended to very well. The wines kept coming and getting better as we went through them. Coincidentally, the one wine we bought at the tasting at the store before lunch came from this winery. We picked up two more bottles here to round out the collection we would take home to share with friends.

We shared nice conversation again on the drive back and Trevor took us along a different route so we could explore new scenery.

It was a great day in total and we enjoyed ourselves very much. Trevor was attentive and the trip was well conceived. I would change not one thing; if we make it back to Melbourne we will tour with Trevor again, and I highly recommend Wine Tours Victoria for a wine tasting trip.