Napa Valley Small Group Winery Tour

Overview

Available languages

English

7 hours

Mobile ticket

Join us on a full-day, small-group wine tour of the Spectacular Napa Valley wine country! You’ll visit three charming, back roads wineries and be served a picnic lunch in an idyllic winery setting. Your tour guide will tell fascinating stories and share many interesting tidbits about local history, culture and wine making. Our specialty is intimate, light hearted and truly memorable experiences. Your guide will set up a tasty picnic lunch for you at a picturesque winery. Once the tour concludes, you will be dropped off from where you were picked up. The tour typically has 8-12 guests on board.

Additional Info

Service animals allowed

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Minimum age is 21 years

Please call local operator after booking to provide a mobile phone number and an email address

Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking

A maximum of 4 people per booking

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

What To Expect

Napa Valley

Your tour will begin with pickup from your Napa Valley hotel. Where you are staying will define the tour region that you will be visiting. If your accommodations are outside of the winery region, you can arrange to meet us a general meeting spot. You’ll visit three charming, backroads wineries and be served a picnic lunch in an idyllic winery setting. Your tour guide will tell fascinating stories and share many interesting tidbits about local history, culture and wine making. This is not a smarmy or touristy activity. Our specialty is intimate, light-hearted and truly memorable. This tour is sure to entertain with a very approachable and easy-going style. Discover and savor new experiences tasting some of the world’s most celebrated wines. Our typical guest is not necessarily a wine expert but keen to learn a bit about wine and wine-making, and is open to sharing the experience with a few other like-minded wine adventurers.

6 hours • Admission Not Applicable

What‘s Included

Bottled water

Picnic lunch

Hotel pickup and drop-off within towns in tour region (Not San Francisco)

Driver Tour Guide

Transport by small shuttle

3 winery stops

(Optional) Wine tasting fees ($20-$25 at each winery) per person to participate in wine tasting

Optional gratuity for the guide (Suggested 18-20%) per person.

Pickup points

Archer Hotel Napa

1230 First Street Napa United States

Options

Napa Valley Small Group Winery Tour

Pickup included

Reviews

4.89

1,012 reviews

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

945

The trip was great. I...
Patti L,,Feb 17, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00
The trip was great. I loved the 3 boutique wineries we went to. We got a lot of great information. The driver was very helpful and knowledgeable. Would highly recommend.
Valentine Day
Bianca H,,Feb 16, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00
This was our first time visiting California, and although it was a little colder than we expected, the wine tour was absolutely amazing! Our tour guide, James, was fantastic knowledgeable, engaging, and made the entire experience fun and seamless. The group we spent Valentine’s Day with was wonderful, and it made the wine tastings even more enjoyable. The views were beautiful, the education about the wines was informative without being overwhelming, and overall it was such a fun and memorable experience. Highly recommend!
Highly recommend!!
Doug W,,Feb 15, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00
Highly recommend ! Rob was the best! All of the wineries provided a good value and had exceptional wine.
Wonderful time with Gary
robertcI8449UQ,,Feb 4, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Our tour guide, Gary, was great! He took us to 3 different wineries and we had a great private tasting at each. Each winery was great and unique. Would highly recommend this tour. It was a great experience.
An exceptional tour!
lianp2026,,Jan 13, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
To preface this review, I do not consider myself an expert in wine and I often feel extremely ignorant at gatherings and restaurants where fine wines are served. That said, when I booked this tour, I expected it to be a very long lesson in humility--needless to say, it was not. The tour was, in fact, one of the most relaxing, fun, and valuable learning experiences I have ever had. My thanks to our knowledgeable, kind, and amicable tour guide, Andy, as well as to our wonderful guides at Rutherford, Backstage, and Bread and Butter for a truly memorable day spent with family and good company c:
Take A Load Off!
MattOFreeman,,Jan 3, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Platypus Wine Tours blends beautiful scenery, thoughtful storytelling, and exceptional wine—without feeling rushed. Steve did a fantastic job helping us learn the heart behind each of the three vineyards—each smaller, family-owned, boutique style. We savored good wines and shared an abundance of laughter and conversation along the way. Plan on leaving not just with a few bottles of wine, but with amazing memories of a meaningful tour. Highly recommend if you want to take a load off and relieve the stress from setting up and paying for a tasting room experience, getting lunch, driving yourself, etc. Let Platypus Wine Tours handle all your cares!
Great Experience!
Aaron M,,Jan 3, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00
Really great and fun experience. One of my most memorable wine tasting experiences. Enjoyed learning about the wine making process and tasting wine directly from an oak barrel.
Good to Support Small Wine Growers in Napa!
John C,,Dec 21, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00
Communication was good prior to the wine tour and Courtney picked us up at the hotel in a comfortable minibus. We were joined by 5 other families and visited 3 wineries for the day. Courtney was energetic and provided a good overview of the Napa Valley and her passion showed throughout the day. The wineries were lesser known smaller boutique which was good for us to support small businesses. Unfortunately for the wine growers, they are experiencing a drop in wine consumption as well as exports. Many of the grapes were left on the vines unharvested. This tour is perfect for my daughter's first wine visit and she enjoyed it very much.
Perfect Tour!
G6952ZBkarenm,,Dec 7, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
We had a great time. Linda, our guide, was knowledgeable, helpful and super fun! We loved the wineries we visited they were perfect!
Mixed experience
JamesR B,,Nov 23, 2025
- Review from Viator
3.00
We were disappointed with Viator. Our 1st booking - Trolley-bus tour of Napa -was cancelled at 48hrs notice & no explanation given. We were reimbursed but no compensation for the inconvenience caused. In regard to our 2nd booking - a Small Group tour in Napa - we were informed with less than 24 to go - that there was only the 2 of us on the Napa and it was suggested to us that we transfer to the Small Group tour of Sonoma - there were 8 other booking for this trip -which we did as were afraid that the Napa tour would be cancelled. We got the distinct impression that Viator was cancelling all trips where they did not have viable numbers. In regard to the Sonoma trip which we ended up taking, the driver/guide was very good. The 1st tasting at Laxton Cellars was very good and the wines excellent. We also liked the Wellington visit and wines. We found both the visit and wines disappointing at Mayo Cellars. I don't understand why the costs of the wine tastings are not included in the price of the tour.