Half-Day Canberra Winery Tour /w lunch
- 5–6 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Merry Heart CBR's highly rated winey tours to Murrumbateman offer a vast variety of tasting quality wine from boutique wineries. Enjoy a delicious lunch, and local dips or a cheese platter, cold soft drinks and water on the bus. Half-Day Canberra Winery Tour to Murrumbateman inclusions: -Visit 3-4 wineries/venues -Tasting fees -Lunch -Shared cheese platters -Complimentary water bottles and soft drinks -Air-conditioned vehicle (current bus old-ish). -Refrigerated cold drinks available in an esky -Phone chargers available We may go: -Murrumbateman -Lake George -Bungendore -Wallaroo This is a perfect opportunity for anyone to try out different Canberra wineries and make new friends, or connect with existing ones. Itinerary is sample only. Minimum age: 24
Inclusions
What's included
- Soda/Pop
- Local guide
- Bottled water
- Lunch
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Phone chargers
- Wine Tastings
- Photo shoots in scenary locations
What's not
- Other purchases
Itinerary
Learn from the winemakers and taste some of the award-winning Rieslings and Cabernet Sauvignon. Halliday Wine Companion 2023 released August, 2022 has rated Helm Wines: “A winery which is outstanding, regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity, and generally acknowledged to have a long track record of excellence in the context of its region – truly the best of the best. Among just 12.8 % of Australian wineries.
2021 James Halliday Wine Companion: Eden Road is a Red 5-Star Winery. Your tastings will include: 95 Points - 2018 The Long Road Syrah The fruit from Eden Road Estate vineyard in Murrumbateman & the Hilltops GI. 95 Points - 2018 Canberra Syrah The fruit from Eden Road Cullarin Block 71 vineyard at Lake George Escarpment (first planted in 1971 by the father of the Canberra wine industry Dr. Edgar Riek & Eden Road estate vineyard in Murrumbateman Block 94 (second planted in 1972). Eden Road vines are grown across a collection of unique properties comprising different soils and altitudes, with grape varieties best suited to these conditions, to produce wines of varietal purity, finesse and complexity. In 2017 award-winning French winemaker Celine Rousseau joined the family at Eden Road Wines; and since, Eden Road winemaking has been re-defined. It is based on world-leading traditional techniques aimed at producing wines that are a pure and sincere expression of their terroir.
Here, you will have a pizza lunch, paired with wine tastings. The Four Winds Story began with a miner and his wife who lived on the property in a slab-hut. Her name was Scheherazade, after the story telling character in The Arabian Nights. Her favourite story described a magic carpet being borne by the four winds of good fortune. She named this small farm in Murrumbateman ‘Four Winds’ in the hope it would carry their good fortunes. Four Winds planted their thirty-three acre vineyard in 1998 and 1999 with five varieties: Shiraz, Riesling, Cabernet, Merlot and Sangiovese.
Worked hard to create a new look label that shows both where our wines began and where we are going. The Royal Bluebell, now in gold, reminds us of Jeir Creek Wines’ rich history. As the floral emblem for the ACT, it also continues our strong connection to Canberra. The rest is us, modern, yet classic. Tradition and history are as important to us as modernization and quality. We hope you agree that our new look brings these values together. You will continue to see some of our old labels on our older vintages until sold out.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Ratings come from 25 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
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5Wonderful day, beautiful wineries!
We all had such a lovely day!! Our guide took us to some beautiful and unique wineries with some great history and awesome wines...a really great experience :)
4Great day out
Winery experiences were great, such an educational experience. Loved helm and dog trap vineyard. Mulled wine at dog trap was the best!
5Wine tour with lunch
Great day out. 3 very different wineries, each unique in their own right. Really nice lunch at the Murrambateman pub. Good host. Highly recommend.
5Good Tour, Great Wines, and New Friends
We had an enjoyable wine tour experience. It was a nice opportunity to taste and experience different wines, and my husband was especially happy with the variety. We also got to meet new friends along the way, which made the day even more memorable. Our tour guide, Bishoy, was very attentive and always checked in to make sure we were doing well throughout the trip. Overall, it was a good experience and we appreciate the care and hospitality.
3Room for improvement all round
Not what is described in the tour details. Started with no message or person at pickup point to direct us to where the bus was parked. Bus old and rickety. Driver trying to make up time for delayed start drove fast and we were sliding off seats. The first winery was nice with cheese platter, limited commentary. 2nd winery Shaw Smith was great. Then it was downhill with a horrible pub lunch and tasting at what seemed like a hobby farm. The presenter here was entertaining. Never made it to the fourth winnery. If not for the other travellers it would not have been and enjoyed tour. I've done other wine tours in Aus and around the world. This one was relatively poor and not value for money. A lot of room for improvement.
4Great time. Would do it again.
Great time. Not having to worry about driving enabled me to make the most of the day. Diversity of the stops made it interesting. Only issue was really noisy on the bus but Would do it again.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- From carpark near reception departing 11:45 am Notes: Your pickup is assumed to be from outside Novotel Hotel. Please email if your preferred pickup point is Abode Murrumbateman instead. If prefer custom pickup/drop-off, then please see website for add-on.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 24 travellers
- Operated by
- Merry Heart CBR
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Service animals allowed
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- The tour runs for 6 hours, which excludes travel time from pick-up, driving between venues, and returning to pick-up.
How it compares in Canberra
- Its from-price is 16% above the median of the 43 experiences we list in Canberra.
- It is longer than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 10 of 43.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Canberra
Canberra is Australia's planned capital, a city of lakes, wide avenues, national museums and bushland hills in the Australian Capital Territory.
Canberra was designed in the early twentieth century by the American architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, who arranged it around an artificial lake that carries his name. Parliament House, opened in 1988, sits on Capital Hill under a lawn-covered roof, while Old Parliament House, further down the same axis, is now a museum of Australian democracy. The Australian War Memorial, with its domed Hall of Memory, stands at the head of Anzac Parade.
Top-ranked sights in Canberra: Australian Parliament House, Australian War Memorial, Mt. Ainslie.
