McLaren Vale Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide
- 4–9 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
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.
Inclusions
What's included
- Email and in-app chat support
- GPS audio tour of McLaren Vale with stories playing automatically at each stop
- Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
- Regional chapters on John Reynell, Thomas Hardy and the ancient Maslin sands
- Buy once, no expiry, with free content and audio updates for life
- In-app map with every winery, village and lookout pinned
- Cellar-door narration for d'Arenberg, Wirra Wirra, Coriole and Kay Brothers
- Trip planner to build and reorder your own route
- One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
What's not
- Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
- Food, meals and snacks
- Transport - you drive your own car or rental vehicle
- Fuel, parking and road tolls
- Mobile data or wifi to download the tour before you set out
Itinerary
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.
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.
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.
On Chaffeys Road, known for its Italianate gardens as much as its wines.
On Kays Road at Amery, where Herbert and Frederick Kay planted Block Six Shiraz on 18 July 1892 into sandy loam over limestone.
Perched on the Seaview ridge with its landmark chapel cellar door, making benchmark Cabernet and Shiraz with firm savoury tannins.
Small-batch wines made in a restored 1853 building on Chaffeys Road, overlooking the Onkaparinga Gorge.
Out on McLaren Flat Road toward Kangarilla, working the elevated eastern sands that give Grenache its purity and fine-grained texture.
On Seaview Road, a small producer drawing on the ancient sands and ironstone of the region's elevated eastern edge.
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.
A heritage town of 1840s stone buildings, home to the Willunga Farmers Market every Saturday morning since 2003.
The clifftop above the reef where the Danish barque Star of Greece ran aground in 1888 with the loss of eleven lives.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Wine Trails
- 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
How it compares in McLaren Vale
- Its from-price is 75% below the median of the 30 experiences we list in McLaren Vale.
- It is longer than most of them.
- 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.
