Yarra Valley Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide
- 4–9 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Drive the Yarra 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 — Healesville, Coldstream, Yarra Glen, Seville, or straight out of Melbourne — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 85 stories cover 63 cellar doors and the people behind them: as you pass Yering Station you'll hear how the Ryrie brothers planted Victoria's first vines on this riverbank in 1838, and how Paul de Castella later bought the run and made it famous, taking a grand prix at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch in Healesville, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops through the Upper Yarra. 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
- Regional chapters on the Ryrie brothers, de Castella and the 1969 revival
- Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
- GPS audio tour of the Yarra Valley with stories playing automatically at each stop
- Buy once, no expiry, with free content and audio updates for life
- In-app map with every winery, village and lookout pinned
- Trip planner to build and reorder your own route
- Cellar-door narration for Yering Station, Domaine Chandon, Yarra Yering and Oakridge
- 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
The valley's north-eastern township at the base of the Great Dividing Range, and the default start point for the drive.
Where the Ryrie brothers planted Victoria's first vines in 1838 and Paul de Castella later made the wines that won a grand prix at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle; the de Castella bluestone buildings still stand.
On Maroondah Highway at Coldstream, established in 1986 when Moet and Chandon chose the Yarra Valley for their Australian sparkling wine operation.
At Gruyere, the twelve hectares Dr Bailey Carrodus planted at the foot of the Warramate Hills in 1969.
On Maddens Lane at Gruyere, on the warm sheltered valley floor where Chardonnay grows alongside Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz.
On Maroondah Highway at Coldstream, in the historic heart of the valley floor.
A working winery estate near Yarra Glen that also holds the TarraWarra Museum of Art, opened in 2003 by collectors Eva and Marc Besen.
On Pinnacle Lane at Dixons Creek, in the warmer sheltered hill country north of Yarra Glen that gives richer Shiraz and Cabernet.
One of the grand Coldstream estates on Maroondah Highway, with sweeping views across the valley floor.
On Maroondah Highway in the middle of Healesville, sharing its address with the Healesville Hotel.
Founded in 1934 as the Sir Colin MacKenzie Sanctuary on twenty-eight acres of bushland, now home to over a hundred and forty native species.
On the Maroondah Highway near Yering Station, a working Belgian-style chocolate factory, cafe and ice creamery.
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 Melbourne
- Its from-price is 85% below the median of the 294 day trips we list in Melbourne.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital of Victoria on the Yarra River, known for laneway cafés, street art, grand Victorian buildings and a calendar full of sport.
Melbourne grew rich on the gold rush of the 1850s, and the grand buildings from that time still stand in the grid of the city centre, among them Flinders Street Station with its yellow facade and the domed Royal Exhibition Building. Federation Square and the National Gallery of Victoria stand close to the Yarra, and trams rattle along the main streets. Narrow lanes such as Hosier Lane are covered in ever-changing street art.
Top-ranked sights in Melbourne: Loch Ard Gorge, Twelve Apostles, Great Ocean Road.
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