Yarra Valley Chandon, Soumah and De Bortoli Estate 2-6 guests

Ultimate Yarra Valley Food & Wine Tour

Small group, 2–6 guests · Luxury Mercedes or  late model Toyota 10 seater van, for extra legroom 

Just over an hour north-east of Melbourne, the Yarra Valley is home to more than 70 wine producers — from long-established family estates to small boutique cellar doors. Cool-climate Chardonnay, sparkling wine and Pinot Noir are the region's signature styles, and the Valley has led the shift toward leaner, more acid-driven Chardonnay, closer to Burgundy, as winemakers cut back on oak maturation time and the percentage of new oak used. Pinot Noir follows close behind — widely regarded as the hardest variety to get right, and the Valley produces some of the most elegant, complex examples made anywhere.

Your day:

• Pick-up 9:45–10am, timed to your City Hotel location.
• Chandon — a guided tasting at one of the Valley's founding sparkling houses, on the site of a former dairy farm dating back to 1986.
• Lunch at Soumah or Tokar Estate — including a wine tasting at the venue, so you can choose the glass that suits your lunch.
• Your choice of a final stop — either a wine and cheese pairing at De Bortoli, run by the fourth generation of the De Bortoli family, or a relaxed cheese board and flight at St Hubert's.
• Sightseeing — we pass Heritage Golf & Country Club, home to a resident mob of wild kangaroos.
• Return to your hotel by approximately 5pm.

We visit fewer stops than most tours — fewer wineries, more time at each one, and a pace that leaves room for actual conversation with the people pouring your wine.

Your guide is one of Epicurean's owner-operators — the same person who'll have answered your booking email.

As featured in Best of the Yarra Valley.

Epicurean reserve the right to make changes to the itinerary, order and timing for the best cellar door and tour experience.

Minimum 4 guests to tour