Twelve bookable tours run the wine country around this city: gin-and-chocolate combo days through the Yarra Valley, all-inclusive coach runs with a proper winery lunch, a wildlife-and-wine crossover at Healesville, a self-paced hop-on loop, and the one Mornington Peninsula day tour with a real track record. This is all of them, compared by what each day actually gives you.
10,082 traveller reviews across the 12 tours, and every one cancels free up to 24 hours before pickup.
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Short answer
Yarra Valley day tours from Melbourne run $66 to $252: the hop-on loop bus is $66, the big gin-and-chocolate combo days are $70 to $93, all-inclusive lunch coaches $128 to $156, and premium small groups $199 to $252. The one proven Mornington Peninsula day tour is $245 with lunch and drinks included. Every tour picks up in or near the CBD, every tasting is 18+ with ID, and all twelve cancel free up to 24 hours out. Pick the region first, then the format.
Three tours carry most of this market's bookings between them, and they solve three different days: the flexible eight-stop social day that 5,319 reviews rate a straight 5.0, the wine-gin-whisky run from the operator locals search for by name, and the all-inclusive coach where lunch and every tasting are already in the ticket. Start here if you want the shortlist without the spreadsheet.
8 hours · Teepee Tours
The one Melbourne actually books. Eight stops in a day: wineries, Four Pillars gin, cider, chocolate, with every tasting covered and the itinerary flexed around the group's mood. Lunch is the only thing you pay for out there, and the driver splits the bus when half want bubbles and half want beer.
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8 hours · Red Carpet Wine Tours
Wine is the spine of the day, but the gin and whisky pours at St Huberts are what people talk about on the ride home. Five stops, a chocolate finish, and a pickup right outside NGV. Bring lunch money for Hubert Estate; everything poured is in the ticket.
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8 hours · Australian Wine Tour Company
The valley's longest-running coach operation, and the only big-bus day where the word all-inclusive holds: four wineries, every tasting, and a proper winery lunch with a glass of wine, no wallet required between pickup and drop-off. Kids from five can ride, which no small-group tour offers.
Check Price & Availability →The first fork is geography, and it decides the wine in your glass. The Yarra Valley, an hour northeast, is the volume play: more than 90 cellar doors and nearly all the bookable tours. The Mornington Peninsula, an hour south, grows arguably better pinot noir but supports far fewer tours, and we say so plainly. The experiences lineup crosses wine with wildlife, chocolate and a hop-on bus for days when not everyone came for the pinot.
Yarra Valley wine tours
Best for first visits: the biggest cellar doors, the most departures, and nobody has to drive home
Wine experiences
Best for mixed groups where not everyone came for the pinot
Mornington Peninsula wine tours
Best for pinot noir devotees and second visits; we say plainly how thin the tour inventory is
The Yering corridor, the front door of nearly every route here. Melbourne's CBD sits an hour southwest.
Same valley, five very different days. Format is the second fork after region: it sets the group size, whether lunch is in the ticket, and how much of the day is yours to steer.
| Style | Book this one | Why |
|---|---|---|
| The social all-rounder | Teepee's gin, cider & chocolate day | Eight stops, every tasting covered, and the itinerary flexes with the group. 5.0 across 5,319 reviews, from $93. |
| Everything in the ticket | The all-inclusive coach | Four wineries, all tastings and a winery lunch with wine, from $133. The only big-coach day where nothing costs extra out there. Kids from five can ride. |
| Premium small group | Vinetrekker's Yering Station day | Twelve guests, a cheese pairing at De Bortoli and an a la carte restaurant lunch, from $221. The six-seat Mercedes van ($199) is the closest thing to private. |
| Wine plus wildlife | The Healesville Sanctuary crossover | Koalas and platypus in the morning, cellar doors after lunch, from $252 with Sanctuary entry included. 4.9 across 347 reviews. |
| Budget, at your own pace | The hop-on hop-off RED route | A $66 loop bus between cellar doors: linger two hours at one winery if you like, pay tastings as you go. 5.0 across 269 reviews. |
| Mornington pinot pilgrimage | Vinetrekker's Peninsula day | Yabby Lake, Crittenden, Quealy and Ten Minutes by Tractor in a ten-seat group with lunch and drinks included, from $245. 5.0 across 61 reviews. |
Callum is an amazingly uplifting fun and humours tour guide. He made the day. The wines were wonderful the gin was great and the chocolate was divine. It's a great day in the Yarra. The playlist didnt play my songs but it was a great insite into all the other tour clients. Strongly recommended.
Lovely four vineyards whilst on the tour. Rochford was my favourite. Tony was our driver, a good laugh and very knowledgeable. The lunch at Balgownie Estate was really nice. I think overall I sampled 24 wines and not normally a red wine drinker, but some of the reds I sampled were beautiful.
Superb day, cheese, wine, chocolate and Kangaroos. Couldn't ask for more! Our guide was warm and knowledgeable about everything from Melbourne history to Australian wine to Kangaroo and other local animals.
had a great day with Matt. Soumah was great to visit as well as the chocolate shop near the end. a good day out and would recommend it for a nice day seeing different wineries.
Callum was an excellent guide, the drive and his commentary were both great. The tour was relaxed and we got ample time to taste wines and click pictures, pick up and drop off was perfect as well. I would highly recommend the trip to anyone looking for a laid back tour of the valley.
This day tour was lovely experience. Our driver/guide Andy was amazing and so professional. He told us lots of information about the area and he took great care of us. You could have conversation about anything with Andy. We visited four different vineyards. One of the tasting included some locally made cheese tasting also. The lunch was delicious.
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A feel for the day before you commit: what the cellar doors, the drives and the tastings actually look like, filmed by travellers.
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The spread runs $66 to $252 per person, and the ends are different products: the bottom is a seat on a self-paced loop bus with tastings paid as you go, the top is a ten-hour small-group day with a sanctuary entry or a restaurant lunch folded in. What moves the price is group size first, then how much is already in the ticket. These are the current from-prices on the live listings, in US dollars; they move with the date and the exchange rate.
| What you are booking | From | What that buys |
|---|---|---|
| Self-paced loop bus | $66 | The hop-on hop-off RED route between Yarra Valley cellar doors: transport and freedom, tastings at your own expense and your own pace. |
| Big-group combo day | $70 to $93 | The volume favourites: Rick's food-wine-chocolate-gin run at $70, and the eight-stop gin, cider and chocolate day at $93 with every tasting included and lunch bought at a winery kitchen. |
| Wine, spirits and chocolate | $92 | The wine, gin, whisky and chocolate day from the operator whose name people search for directly. 4.9 across 1,442 reviews. |
| Lunch-included coach or mid-size group | $128 to $156 | The all-inclusive coach at $133 and the max-20 group with a two-course winery lunch at $128; the eleven-seat adults-only version with Chandon on the route runs $156. |
| Premium small group | $199 to $221 | The six-seat Mercedes van at $199, or twelve seats with a De Bortoli cheese pairing and an a la carte Yering Station lunch at $221. |
| Full-day flagship experiences | $245 to $252 | The Mornington Peninsula day with lunch and drinks at Merricks General Store ($245), or the Healesville Sanctuary wildlife-and-wine day with entry included ($252). |
From $66 for the self-paced hop-on loop to $252 for the wildlife-and-wine flagship. The big combo days run $70 to $93, lunch-included coaches $128 to $156, and premium small groups $199 to $221. The one proven Mornington Peninsula day tour is $245. Prices are current from-prices in US dollars and move with the date, so the live listing is always the authority; every card on this site opens it.
Every tour here starts in or near the CBD: Parliament Station, Federation Square, the NGV on Flinders Street, the Grand Hyatt on Russell Street, or a small list of hotel stops. The two Vinetrekker days and the wildlife tour collect from selected hotels directly. Exact points and times are on each listing, and most operators confirm your stop the day before.
Barely, and that is why these tours exist. The train reaches Lilydale and buses continue to Healesville and Yarra Glen townships, but the wineries are scattered across back roads the buses do not serve. A tour solves the whole problem at once: transport between cellar doors, and nobody in your group stuck on lemonade behind the wheel.
Nearly every Yarra route draws from the same core: Yering Station, Yering Farm, Domaine Chandon, Soumah, St Huberts, Tokar Estate, Balgownie and De Bortoli, with Four Pillars gin and the Chocolaterie as the non-wine stops. The Mornington day works Yabby Lake, Crittenden, Quealy and Ten Minutes by Tractor. Each card names the stops its listing names, and several itineraries flex with the day.
Most run a full eight hours door to door, with about an hour's drive each way. The premium Vinetrekker days stretch to ten hours, the foodies afternoon tour compresses into a half day from 11:30am, and the hop-on loop gives you seven to eight hours to spend however you like between cellar doors.
Tasting is 18+ with photo ID at every cellar door, no exceptions, and staff routinely check anyone who looks under 25. Whether a younger passenger can ride is each operator's own rule: the all-inclusive coach takes children from age five, the adults-only small group takes nobody under 18, and the wildlife day welcomes families at the Sanctuary end. Non-drinkers ride at full or lightly reduced fare depending on the operator; the listing states each policy.
The tours run year-round. Harvest, February to April, is the valley at its liveliest, with fruit on the vines and the presses running; it is also when popular dates fill first. Spring is green and calm, summer needs an early start on hot days, and winter moves the tastings indoors by the fire, often with the valley under morning fog that burns off by the second cellar door.
Yes. Australian cellar doors are relaxed: jeans and clean sneakers are fine everywhere these tours stop. The only stated standard is smart casual on the premium Vinetrekker days, which in practice means no activewear at the restaurant lunch. Comfortable shoes matter more than style; you will cross gravel car parks and cellar floors all day.
It is worth it if you want a world-class cool-climate region without renting a car or drawing straws for a designated driver: the Yarra Valley took both Pinot Noir and Cabernet of the Year in the Halliday 2026 awards, and a tour puts four of its cellar doors in one day for less than most single restaurant bills in town. It is not worth it if you would rather spend three unhurried hours at one estate; in that case take the hop-on loop or book a city tasting instead. The 10,082 reviews across this lineup lean heavily toward the first camp.
Every tour on this site was read on its live booking page before it earned a card: the rating and review count are the platform's own figures at the time we checked, every price is the current from-price on that listing rather than an estimate, and winery names, pickup points, age rules and inclusions come from the operators' own pages. Where two sources disagreed on a figure, the figure is not printed. Wine-region facts come from the region's own bodies and the current Halliday Wine Companion. More about how this site is put together →
The cellar doors the tours visit and the ones they skip, with current tasting fees.
The honest comparison: wine styles, drive times, and which one suits a first visit.
Ticket prices, tasting fees, lunches and the extras, itemised from the live listings.