Temecula Valley Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide
- 4–9 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Drive Temecula Valley 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 — Old Town Temecula on Front Street or Temecula Wine Country on Rancho California Road — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 37 narrated stories cover 19 cellar doors across Rancho California Road, De Portola Road and the Calle Contento trail: as you pass Callaway you'll hear how textile executive Ely Callaway founded the valley's first bonded winery here in 1974 and made his name with Chenin Blanc. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal thins out east of the vineyards. 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
- Free content updates as new stories and wineries are added
- Trip planner to build and reorder your own tasting day
- In-app map covering Rancho California Road, De Portola Road, Calle Contento and Old Town
- Full offline download: every audio file saved to your phone before you leave wifi
- GPS audio narration across 19 mapped Temecula Valley wineries and 12 points of interest
- Buy once, no expiry, unlimited replays
- One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
- Regional stories on the Rainbow Gap, granite terroir and the Cilurzo and Callaway eras
What's not
- Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
- Food, meals and snacks
- Transport, vehicle hire, fuel and phone mount
- Mobile data required for the initial tour download
- Hot air balloon flights and any third-party experiences
- Gratuities
Itinerary
A six-block historic district on Front Street and Main Street that was a Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach stop in the 1850s.
Textile executive Ely Callaway founded the valley's first bonded winery here in 1974 and made his name with Chenin Blanc.
John and Sally Thornton arrived in 1988 to make traditional-method sparkling wine, and the winery still hosts its long-running jazz series.
More than five decades of history on Rancho California Road, one of the valley's earliest estates.
Three separate French, Italian and Spanish-inspired destinations on one Rancho California Road property.
Perched at the top of the hill above Calle Contento, with the most elevated vineyard views in the valley.
A large Rancho California Road estate with restaurant and gardens, and one of the valley's busiest cellar doors.
A Rancho California Road mainstay best known for drawing some of the highest visitor volumes in the valley.
A full resort property on Rancho California Road combining tasting room, spa and villas.
Anchors the eastern stretch of Rancho California Road where the vineyard views open up on both sides.
A 40-acre De Portola Road vineyard with hilltop mountain views, and the highest-rated cellar door in the valley.
De Portola Road estate with a nationally recognised restaurant and vineyard tours led by sommeliers.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
3.0
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Ratings come from 2 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
- 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 Temecula
- Its from-price is 86% below the median of the 77 experiences we list in Temecula.
- It is longer than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 42 of 77.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Temecula
Temecula is a wine-country town in inland Southern California, with vineyards on rolling hills, an old Western main street and hot air balloons at dawn.
Temecula lies in Riverside County, inland from the Pacific, in a valley of gentle hills and vineyards. Old Town Temecula, along Front Street, keeps wooden storefronts, boardwalks and antique shops from its days as a stop on the Butterfield stagecoach route and a ranching centre. The town has grown around that core into a busy suburb.
