Yarra Valley Wine Tour

We were on a Princess cruise with a large tour group from Wisconsin. Nearly all the other guests on our tour stuck with the cruise ships shore excursions, their loss! We decided to go off the map and throw our fate to Wine Tours Victoria. We hit the jackpot with WTV and especially with Trevor, our native Aussie guide.

Trevor took us into the Yarra Valley where we visited four wineries. Our favorite was Cold Stream, where we purchased a case of wine to be shipped back to the States. The other three were of equal quality with each offering a different feel and flavor. We stopped for lunch at Ferguson’s and frankly had the best meal of our trip to that point.

Trevor kept a rolling narrative of the region, the wines and Australia in general. He was a guide, not a driver, meaning he was always with us working with the winery host to provide commentary and add his expertise to the experience. I can promise you will not receive this level of service on a large bus. There were a total of eight people on our small bus and we all got along very well.

If you’re on a cruise ship, WTV will pick you up and drop you off right at the ship with plenty of time to spare. We think Trevor was more nervous about getting back on time then we were!

To put a point on it, this was a great experience and we feel that we will always have a friend down under. We’d say one more thing to Trevor and that’s: Good on you, Mate!

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Trevor from Wine Tours Victoria gave us a fabulous experience on our tour to Yarra Valley wineries. Took us to a couple of lovely boutique wineries.. just us no crowds and of course Chandon.. what views.He knows his wines and the area and was great company. Included was a beautiful lunch with more wine tasting and he included a stop at chocolatier on the way back. Hi

It was a great day sunny and the tour accommodated in picking us up from a local address.

My wife and I traveled to Australia for our honeymoon and spent a day touring the Yarra Valley with Wine Tours Victoria. As it happened, we were the only people on the tour that day (not surprising, as it was a Wednesday). Situations like this have the potential for awkwardness–you’re alone with a stranger for an entire day and responsible for all of the conversation. But our experience was great from the beginning. Trevor (who runs the company) was an incredible guide–certainly knowledgeable about wine, but also warm and personable. We got to know him as well as anyone we met on our trip, and we were absolutely the better for it. (It helped that most of the wine was good, too.) We’d recommend this to anyone interested.

We had booked a group tour with Wine Tours Victoria and we were extremely lucky that we had only one other couple on the tour. The guide was very pleasant and super friendly. She guided us to some of the most beautiful Yarra Valley estates. The lunch she had booked us was fantastic (at Tokar estate). Overall we had a memorable day in great company and with the opportunity to sample some excellent wines. Highly recemmended.

We were given this day tour as a Christmas present and were totally delighted by it. We were picked up at a convenient location and then were given a fabulous day’s outing to the Yarra Valley. And best yet, were dropped off at home afterwards. The guide was friendly and extremely well informed about local history and the wines and wineries we visited and the other couple on our tour were great company.

Lunch at Tokar was excellent and the wineries also. Highly recommended for visitors and locals alike.

What’s not to love about good wine, good food and good company when someone else is driving.