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By Wine Trails
Free cancellation available
Price is $25 per traveler* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travelers

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • Drive McLaren Vale yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — McLaren Vale Township, Willunga, the coast, or straight from Adelaide — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 116 narrated stories cover 78 cellar doors and the people behind them: as you pass Kay Brothers at Amery you'll hear how Herbert and Frederick Kay planted Block Six Shiraz into sandy loam in 1892 — and those same vines are still cropping today. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch, double back, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops, so Blewitt Springs' patchy coverage never matters. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.

Activity location

  • McLaren Vale
    • McLaren Vale, South Australia, Australia

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • McLaren Vale
    • McLaren Vale, South Australia, Australia

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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McLaren Vale Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide

  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h
    9h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 9:00AM
Price details
$24.99 x 1 Traveler$24.99
Total
Price is $24.99
Until Wed, Sep 16

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Email and in-app chat support
  • Inclusions
    GPS audio tour of McLaren Vale with stories playing automatically at each stop
  • Inclusions
    Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
  • Inclusions
    Regional chapters on John Reynell, Thomas Hardy and the ancient Maslin sands
  • Inclusions
    Buy once, no expiry, with free content and audio updates for life
  • Inclusions
    In-app map with every winery, village and lookout pinned
  • Inclusions
    Cellar-door narration for d'Arenberg, Wirra Wirra, Coriole and Kay Brothers
  • Inclusions
    Trip planner to build and reorder your own route
  • Inclusions
    One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
  • Exclusions
    Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
  • Exclusions
    Food, meals and snacks
  • Exclusions
    Transport - you drive your own car or rental vehicle
  • Exclusions
    Fuel, parking and road tolls
  • Exclusions
    Mobile data or wifi to download the tour before you set out

Know before you book

    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • By giving your phone number you agree to receive up to 2 texts from Wine Trails about this booking (your tour link and a tour-day reminder)
    • Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency: max 2 texts per booking. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help
    • Before you travel: download the free Wine Trails app (iOS or Android) and create your account while you are on wifi
    • Unlock your region in the app: tap Redeem a booking or code, choose Booked online, then enter your Viator booking reference (starts with BR-) and the last name on the booking
    • Download your tour over wifi before you drive: coverage in wine country is patchy and the offline download keeps the narration playing
    • One booking unlocks McLaren Vale on your account for good: unlimited routes and tours, no expiry, no subscription

Activity itinerary

McLaren Vale

  • 30m
Main Road and the visitor centre anchor the region's densest run of cellar doors, on heavy Biscay clay and red-brown earth that gives full-bodied Shiraz.

d'Arenberg

  • 30m
Founded in 1912 by Joseph Rowe Osborn and now in the hands of fourth-generation winemaker Chester Osborn, using basket presses for both reds and whites.

Wirra Wirra Vineyards

  • 30m
Founded in 1894 by Robert Strangways Wigley, a former South Australian state cricketer; the winery sat roofless and vineless for over thirty years before being rebuilt.

Coriole Winery

  • 30m
On Chaffeys Road, known for its Italianate gardens as much as its wines.

Kay Brothers Cellar Door & Winery

  • 30m
On Kays Road at Amery, where Herbert and Frederick Kay planted Block Six Shiraz on 18 July 1892 into sandy loam over limestone.

Chapel Hill Winery

  • 30m
Perched on the Seaview ridge with its landmark chapel cellar door, making benchmark Cabernet and Shiraz with firm savoury tannins.

Samuel's Gorge

  • 30m
Small-batch wines made in a restored 1853 building on Chaffeys Road, overlooking the Onkaparinga Gorge.

Yangarra Estate Vineyard

  • 30m
Out on McLaren Flat Road toward Kangarilla, working the elevated eastern sands that give Grenache its purity and fine-grained texture.

Bekkers Wine

  • 30m
On Seaview Road, a small producer drawing on the ancient sands and ironstone of the region's elevated eastern edge.

Pirramimma Winery

  • 30m
Founded after Alexander Johnston bought ninety-seven hectares of red earth outside the village in 1892; one of the region's oldest family-owned wineries.

Willunga

  • 30m
A heritage town of 1840s stone buildings, home to the Willunga Farmers Market every Saturday morning since 2003.

Port Willunga

  • 30m
The clifftop above the reef where the Danish barque Star of Greece ran aground in 1888 with the loss of eleven lives.

McLaren Vale Wine Region

  • 30m
On Main Road, the modern face of the Tintara estate where Thomas Hardy founded his wine empire in 1853.

Location

Activity location

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    McLaren Vale
    • McLaren Vale, South Australia, Australia

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    McLaren Vale
    • McLaren Vale, South Australia, Australia
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    Adelaide
    • Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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    Willunga
    • Willunga, South Australia, Australia

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