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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.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
Itinerary
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1McLaren Vale
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.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2d'Arenberg
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.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3Wirra Wirra Vineyards
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.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4Coriole Winery
On Chaffeys Road, known for its Italianate gardens as much as its wines.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5Kay Brothers Cellar Door & Winery
On Kays Road at Amery, where Herbert and Frederick Kay planted Block Six Shiraz on 18 July 1892 into sandy loam over limestone.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6Chapel Hill Winery
Perched on the Seaview ridge with its landmark chapel cellar door, making benchmark Cabernet and Shiraz with firm savoury tannins.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
7Samuel's Gorge
Small-batch wines made in a restored 1853 building on Chaffeys Road, overlooking the Onkaparinga Gorge.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
8Yangarra Estate Vineyard
Out on McLaren Flat Road toward Kangarilla, working the elevated eastern sands that give Grenache its purity and fine-grained texture.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
9Bekkers Wine
On Seaview Road, a small producer drawing on the ancient sands and ironstone of the region's elevated eastern edge.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
10Pirramimma Winery
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.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
11Willunga
A heritage town of 1840s stone buildings, home to the Willunga Farmers Market every Saturday morning since 2003.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
12Port Willunga
The clifftop above the reef where the Danish barque Star of Greece ran aground in 1888 with the loss of eleven lives.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
13McLaren Vale Wine Region
On Main Road, the modern face of the Tintara estate where Thomas Hardy founded his wine empire in 1853.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Cancellation Policy
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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