d'Arenberg: The Blending Bench and Degustation with Wine Pairing
- 4h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
Visit d'Arenberg winery in McLaren Vale for the Blending Bench, a hands-on experience where you get to play winemaker. Using three barrel samples of d'Arenberg's premium shiraz, you can create a wine of your very own and bottle a 750-mililiter sample to take home with you.
Inclusions
What's included
- 750-ml sample bottle of wine to take home
- Blending Bench experience
- 8-course degustation with matching wines
What's not
- Transportation to/from winery
Itinerary
Arrive at d'Arenberg winery for your Blending Bench experience, where a palette of wine parcels, each with distinctive flavors and textures, awaits your blending in search of balance, fullness, and finesse. The physical work is already done for you—picking, crushing, fermenting, foot treading, basket pressing, and barrel aging. You'll create a wine that is truly unique, and then bottle, name, and label a 750-ml sample to take home and show off to your friends. Following your blending session, sit down to an 8-course degustation at d’Arry’s Verandah Restaurant, overlooking the rolling hills of McLaren Vale. An homage, if you like, to the old adage "variety is the spice of life," this meal is an exceptional way to end your d'Arenberg experience. The resulting combination of flavors and textures created between the food and wine pairings will be the highlight of your time in South Australia.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
4.6
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Ratings come from 17 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Departure Point: d'Arenberg winery Address: Osborn Road, McLaren Vale, South Australia 5171 Dates: Monday - Friday
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 6 travellers
- Operated by
- d'Arenberg
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
How it compares in McLaren Vale
- Its from-price is 160% above the median of the 30 experiences we list in McLaren Vale.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 9 of 30.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About McLaren Vale
McLaren Vale is a wine district on the Fleurieu Peninsula, south of Adelaide, where vineyards run down towards the sea through low coastal hills.
McLaren Vale lies on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, a short drive south of Adelaide, in a shallow valley between the Mount Lofty Ranges and Gulf St Vincent. The district is known for its wine, above all Shiraz and Grenache grown on old vines in warm, dry soils. Cellar doors sit among vineyards and olive groves, and the small town has a main street of cafés, galleries and shops.
Top-ranked sights in McLaren Vale: Wirra Wirra Vineyards.
