Half-Day Wine Country Experience Including All Tasting Fees

San Francisco, USA

Half Day Wine Country Experience All tasting fees included

5 hours 30 minutes
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

Even if you only have a few hours to spare you can still enjoy California's famous wine country on this half-day adventure from San Francisco. Cruise over the Golden Gate Bridge to start your outing, and visit two Sonoma Valley wineries for included tastings. Sip local wines, enjoy an estate tour, and learn about the wine production, aging, and bottling process from an expert host.

Wine fans sip Sonoma Valley varietals on a half-day tour from San Francisco
Enjoy views of San Francisco Bay, and pass the seaside town of Sausalito
Visit two wineries for tours—and up to five tastings—with all fees included
Hassle-free Union Square hotel pickup—or Fisherman's Wharf meet-up—included

What's Included

Alcoholic Beverages
Air-conditioned vehicle

Gratuities
Lunch

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

99 Jefferson St, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
Corner of Jefferson and Mason Street (Fisherman's Wharf)

Start time

12:30 PM

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Fisherman’s Wharf (Pass By)

Golden Gate Bridge (Pass By)

Sausalito (Pass By)

Sonoma Valley

3 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Near public transportation

Infant seats available
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 40 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Featured review

Sbastien_R

The guide Grady was awesome. In several tours, the trip to the attraction is pretty boring but the guide was awesomely knowledgeable and had a very interesting story every minute of the trip. The wineries were great and the tastings were generous. Great tour!

Reviews

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188 reviews

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Don't drink and drive. Take a bus!

Phyllis_O, May 2024

Loved the stories of how the wineries started. All about families. Highly recommend a visit to Napa. Our driver Steve was great.

Boring

MARGARITA_G, May 2024

I thought it would be more interactive it was sort of boring, we drove to two winery and just sampled so short and nothing else to do, no tour no explanation of how wines are made…nada

1/2 day wine experience

Judith_C, Apr 2024

This was a great wine tasting experience. Our driver/ guide was very knowledgeable and made the trip extra special. He even dropped us off at the cruise ship when it ended. If you are looking for a half day trip to wine country this is a perfect choice.

Local Wineries were a treat.

Glen_V, Apr 2024

Going to small family wineries from the area that do not sell outside the USA was special. Marscadini winery was extra special as we sat in their grounds outside while tasting and learning from the hosts. Would definitely go back and taste more special wines in a special area.

A Visit to Napa

Maite_S, Apr 2024

It was a beautiful drive and the first winery where we went was a great experience. The host provided a lot of good information on the wine making process. However, the second winery was not as good. And it would have been a better experience if we had stopped at the Golden Gate Bridge and/or Sausalito for a quick picture. Both wineries were far from each other. If the tour company had selected wineries near each other, they could have stoped at one or both of those attractions. I felt the advertisement was a little misleading.

BD celebration

Linda_H, Apr 2024

Walking through the vineyard, seeing the grounds, all the surroundings made the experience of wine tasting complete.

Worth taking this trip

KATHERINE_L, Apr 2024

Our driver, Marco was excellent driver and narrator making the drive very enjoyable. The scenery was beautiful.

Give more winery options to choose from prior to selecting tickets.

Jan_W, Mar 2024

The winery tour could've offered an option of wineries that carry both dry and sweet and or disclosed the second winery was dry wine only. If the tour were to reverse such as beginning the tour on the dry wine only tasting room, and ending on the full experience winery tour would make make the trip more enjoyable. Also please offer to include full sandwiches or make the stop as indicated between the wineries for those with medical conditions, or maybe don't advertise a stop for food and suggest lunch is brought with three tourists. The second winery offered zero sweet wines and no knives to cut the salami purchased on site?.. please fix the rattling speaker, it was difficult to make out what the guide was saying. Making suggestions for photography to the whole group before boarding the bus is essential to those of us wanting to take in the sights without trying to lean across the aisle or switch seats. The tour guide was knowledgeable on the wine but was not informed that your site says there is a stop on Sonoma for an hour so we can eat or shop. I attained the same air bnb in San Francisco with the understanding I would get the Sonoma stop. Please offer more options on the winery stops. Thank you. The Madonna stop was brilliant, educational, had the best wines I've had in a long time and very kind to the bus tours. Kuddos to the Madonna Vineyards! Thank you for a memorable sightseeing bus tours.

This was a great half day...

Melanie_H, Mar 2024

This was a great half day experience Marco our tour guide was very knowledgeable and both wineries were awesome and all staff were knowledgeable and welcoming

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Michael_S, Feb 2024

Nice, easy trip to Wine country. The guide was the best part very knowledgeable. That’s all I have to say about that.

Wine tour experience

Darius_R, Jan 2024

Our tour guide/bus driver was very friendly and did a great job telling us about different areas we passed on our way to the 2 vineyards. The first vineyard was great, it being small you could tell they took the time to craft and make really good wines. They gave good history lesson and techniques to enjoy and get the fullest out of the tasting experience. The second vineyard didn’t have the greatest wine selections and none paired well with the cheese board. Overall a good experience, need to make some changes to make it better

Okay, would suggest a different winery selection

Julia_S, Jan 2024

Tour guide was nice and they were able to accommodate a last minute hotel pick up which we appreciated. The chat message feature worked well and the service responded quickly. The drive was very scenic and beautiful. The first winery was very nice atmosphere, service/tour and wine. The second winery was more of a disappointment. It did not have a scenic view to enjoy (which there seemed to be plenty of other wineries to choose from) , wine was not good tasting and one of the employees was not friendly to our group.

Half day wine country

Diane_M, Jan 2024

I took the half-day wine country tour. I was traveling solo, so this was an easy way to see that area since I was limited on time, and I had never been to Sonoma or Napa. The instructions for locating the start of the tour were accurate and easy to follow. We had a nice small tour bus for a group of about 15 people. Our driver was friendly and provided insight on things we saw along the way. He was a safe driver. The people in the group were friendly. We stopped at two wineries and had tastings at both. I would have liked to spend more time at the wineries than in the bus getting there. The wineries were friendly and gave information on their selections, but it would’ve been nice if they had had a nice view to look at. We had great weather, and it would’ve been very relaxing to sit outside with a beautiful view.

Napa Valley wine and country experience

Duane_F, Dec 2023

Grady was a knowledgeable and engaging tour guide. the wines and the stories around them really added to the tour. The fun group helped the day out as well. Some nibbles with the wine would have been appreciated...yes, I know, I am being a heathen for suggesting it, but still...

Loved it!

Gemma_B, Nov 2023

Great trip with plenty of wines! Our guide Marco was great, we even stopped at the Golden Gate Bridge to get some photos before heading to Napa Both wine tours were informative and relaxed. Great few hours and well worth it!

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Tamaz_B, Oct 2023

Driver Marco was good. Only. They used a quarter of bottle wine for tasting, for 16 people. We started with white, red, red, white. When we asked, about rinse a glass between different wines, specially between white and red, they looked like a idiots. They saved even for rinsing water. It was Madonna Estate.

2nd vineyard was great.

CindyandRon_R, Oct 2023

The second vineyard we visited was much better. Better presentation regarding the actual growing of the vines and how processed. We actually got to sample a berry off one of the vines, visited their museum, relax in a beautiful setting with our wine.

Disappointing.

Renae_S, Oct 2023

This was a very big disappointment for my group of 4. The event is advertised as 5 hours long and we we’re not at the first winery until 3 hours of being on the bus. We finally arrived and had 45 min before being told the second winery was another 45 minutes away. 15 minutes down the road our driver realized he forgot two passengers and had to return back to get them. My group of 4 chose to get off of the bus and call an Uber to return back to San Fran rather than continuing on. They wouldn’t have returned for another 5 hours after being 4 hours in. Very disappointing experience. No food available to even purchase.

The wineries were good...

Cindy_D, Oct 2023

The wineries were good and we really enjoyed the outdoor space and music at the 2nd one. Our driver was difficult to understand but was very nice.

We were disappointed. We...

Louise_P, Oct 2023

We were disappointed. We didn’t get to walk in the vines trees and see the vineyard. It’s just a tasting tour. With expensive wines. The driver was hard to understand and barely had commentaries.

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