HD Make Your Own Blend
Programme Overview
Duration: half day
Learn from the experts and create your own wine to become an instant wine-maker!
Highlights: The Barossa Valley, Penfolds
FULL LENGTH TOUR DESCRIPTION
Here is your chance to find out how wine-makers get that perfect blend to make a signature wine and become a wine-maker for a day.
Travelling by luxury coach with your guide, you will head towards the Barossa Valley to Penfolds. Begin your unique experience with a tour of the winery and a private tasting session. Then you will learn from the masters as you begin your lesson on how to blend and create your own wine. Under expert tutelage you will be shown how to mix and blend three different base reds to create a wine specifically to your own palate. You will have the opportunity to try out several different ratios before you decide which is the perfect blend for you. Then, using the ratios that you have been carefully making a note of, you will blend your own wine. This is then poured into a half-bottle specially labelled up with your own details. You will then take your bottle of wine back to the ship with you at the end of your tour.
SHORT LENGTH TOUR DESCRIPTION
Travel towards the Barossa Valley to Penfolds, where you will begin your unique experience with a tour of the winery and a private tasting session. Then you will learn from the masters as you begin your lesson on how to blend and create your own wine. Try out several different ratios before you decide which is the perfect blend for you. Using the ratios that you have been selected, you will blend your own wine. This is then poured into a half-bottle specially labelled up with your own details which you can take with you at the end of the tour.
TIMING BREAKDOWN
00:00 Depart the pier and transfer to the Barossa Valley
01:30 Arrive at Penfold’s Barossa for tour, tasting and Make Your Own Blend experience
03:00 Transfer back to Port Adelaide
04:30 Arrive back at the ship
Approximate Duration: 4.5 Hours
OPERATIONAL NOTES
- Tour includes coach transfers, driver and guide, tour, tasting and wine making session at Penfolds
- Activity level – Easy
- Guests must be 18 years and over to participate in wine tasting
- Limited wine is offered for tasting/blending. Guests must bring along cash/credit card for any additional beverages
- The direct travel time between the port and the Barossa Valley is approximately 1 1/2 hours