Afternoon Wine, Beer and Charcuterie Tour in Niagara-on-the-Lake
Description
LIMITED TIME BONUS: All guests receive a $10 gift card for the Outlet Collection at Niagara! Book now to enjoy a day touring through the immaculate wine region of Niagara-On-The-Lake. Experience a selection from 100 wineries in the region, with inspirations from Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and California. Feel safe and secure with your professional driver who is also your knowledgable tour guide as well. The Niagara wine region boasts awards from all over the world for taste and innovation, guaranteeing you a wine tour you will never forget! This is an afternoon tour including visits to 2 different wineries and 1 brewery, 9-12 different tastings, craft beer, Icewine tastings, one mini-charcuterie pairing and time for photos as well as boutique shopping!
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Itinerary
Canada's first Farmhouse-focused brewery offering Tasting Room, Tours, Food, Outdoor Patio & Events Space. Here we will be doing 3-4 beer tastings!
Since arriving in Niagara on the Lake, Canada in 1948, the Pillitteri family has been committed to creating a legacy for generations to follow. Now, over six decades later, Pillitteri Estates Winery proudly continues a family tradition of viticulture and winemaking excellence. With three generations actively involved with the winery’s operations, each bottle of wine they make is a product of their family’s passion. They are proud to be able to share the fruits of our labour with wine enthusiasts around the world, and consider each person that enjoys a glass of Pillitteri wine to be a part of their family. Here we will be doing 3-4 wine tastings!
Niagara's Exclusive Lakefront Winery. Founded in 1893 outside of Stuttgart Germany, Founded in 1984 in Niagara-on-the-Lake.100% Niagara grown and produced VQA wines crafted, owned and operated by the Konzelmann family. Tasting Boutique, Tours, Private Experiences, Cheese Platters, Full Production Facility, Barrel Cellar, Corporate Events, Special Event Dinners/Luncheons, Weddings, Lakefront Vineyard with a view of Toronto, CN Tower, Rogers Centre. Proud Canadian first to place on "Wine Spectators Top 100 List". Here we will be doing 3-4 wine tastings in addition to a mini-charcuterie paired with your tastings!
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We will pick you up wherever you are staying! A hotel, B&B, Air B&B, even you or your friend's house! *Guests need to provide a pick-up location (full address)* Pick-Up is between 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm for Niagara Falls and 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm for Niagara-On-The-Lake locations. Times may vary based on other guest pickups and road conditions. Your more precise pick-up time will be sent to you after 6:00pm, the day before your tour. Pick-ups must be in Niagara Falls and/or Niagara-On-The-Lake! CANADA ONLY Please plan to eat before or after the tour, because while this tour does include one mini charcuterie pairing, this tour does not include a lunch break. **Sample itinerary listed is a sample and may not reflect your actual tour schedule**
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(182)
Mary was so lovey and knowledgeable and just a true gem! Thanks for a wonderful time.
Thanks for the review!
This tour was incredibly underwhelming. It was a glorified shuttle service between 3 different wineries. Only the 1st winery included a charcuterie. The second and third were a whirlwind of underwhelming wines, quick pours and getting moved through the assembly line. We did not have a beer stop. Not sure exactly what you are paying for with this package. Would have been better off organizing ubers and self- selecting wineries. Save your $$$.
Matthew, while we can appreciate the perspective of a guest, we do not appreciate the outright rudeness and unsubstantiated claims that you put forward as fact. We are happy to discuss and do our best to rectify any subjective experiences, but the objective claims you have made are categorically false. You can inform us of your opinion, but to belittle the work we did from the planning to the tour itself and our partnered wineries is entirely rude. I would suggest some more decorum next time you want to make your thoughts known. This may be your perception, but the reality is hours of work went into your tour, and you would not have been able to create an experience anywhere close for yourselves in terms of value. When it comes to the experiences, you had everything booked and planned for you, including a professional and knowledgable tour guide who contributed valuable knowledge and ensured to take care of your throughout the day. If you recall we even re-worked the pickup schedule the morning of to accomodate you being late for your scheduled pick-up. As for the pricing, while that may be your subjective opinion, we have spent years accumulating information on actual pricing and costs in order to objectively calculate the best competitive price in the region for the tour services and value that we offer. When it comes to wine tastings, it is always subjective, but to classify them as objectively poor instead of not in your taste is entirely unfair to the wineries. Everyone prefers different wines, and if you somehow enjoyed none throughout the entire day, that is an extreme outlier we would have had no way of knowing in advance, and you would not have been able to avoid for yourselves either. I do also want to highlight that on the day of your tour, the vast majority of Niagara-On-The-Lake experienced major flooding that the wineries and staff were dealing with both personally and professionally. So while the experiences were still as good as possible, a lot of resources had to be redirected to dealing with the floods. The very same floods that you claimed made you late. To allow yourselves the grace to be late on that day due to the floods but, not extend that same grace to the wineries is hypocritical. As clearly stated in the tour description, the charcuterie pairing is done at 1 of the wineries and different experiences at the other two. I also want to mention that while you have reviewed our afternoon tour experience, you did not book that tour. You booked our morning full-day tour, which is all wineries. You were never set to visit a brewery to begin with and, had you taken the time to read what you were booking or your confirmation or any number of updates leading up to your tour, you would have been aware of this. As evident from your review, I would encourage you to take the time to read the details of any experience you are booking, as it seems like you failed to do so in this case. Everything is clearly stated, and we always meet expectations when you take the time to read what to expect. It is unfortunate you feel this way, but, luckily, as you will see from the hundreds of 5-star reviews, over 99% of people who took the time to read, disagree with you and your review.
This was our first ever wine tour! We selected it because it also had a beer stop. We really enjoyed getting picked up and dropped off right at our hotel. Our favorite was the brewery stop at Oast - great beer and very knowledgeable and friendly hostess! Nest stop, Pillitteri felt very rushed - I don't think the hostess knew how much time we had... The wine was good. Our last stop was at Konzelmann where we had the yummu charcuterie board with our wine. The cherry on top ;) for this trip was our excellent guide, Kevin. He was a pleasure!
Thank you so much for the lovely review! We are so glad to hear you enjoyed the tour services we provided, the locations that you visited and, Kevin as your tour guide! He is a wealth of knowledge! Thanks for coming on the tour, we hope to have you back!
Loved everything about this tour! Our driver was incredible and very knowledgeable about the area! Oast House was our favourite and the two wineries were lovely as well. I strongly recommend this tour!
Great time. We met wonderful people with us on the tour. Tasted very good wine and beer. Definitely would recommend.
Thanks for coming on the tour! Glad you enjoyed everything! We appreciate the glowing review!
Had a great time! Mo was our tour guide! He was amazing and very knowledgeable! The wine tasting was great! We learned alot about wine and its history! Highly recommend this tour!
Thank you so much for the lovely tour! We are so glad to hear you had such a good time on the tour with Mo! He is absolutely fantastic! You are welcome back anytime!
Our guide was amazing and everything went perfectly smooth. Highly recommend!
Thanks for joining us for the tour and, leaving us such a lovely review!
Eye enjoyable afternoon, Guy our driver was wonderful!
Thanks for the review
We had a great afternoon enjoying wine, beer and charcuterie. Beautiful venues, beautiful scenery and our guide Guy was exceptional. He was very entertaining, accommodating and full of information on the Niagara area.
Thank you so much for joining us for a tour and, leaving us such a glowing review! The Winery Guy himself always gives his groups 110% and we're glad you enjoyed it so much!
Such a fun experience! We love the stops and had such a fun time.
Thank you for the review!
