Wines from Châteauneuf-du-Pape and surrounding areas in 1/2 day
Recommended by 99% of travelers
Avignon, France
- 4 to 6 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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What's Included
- Alcoholic BeveragesTasting of at least 3 wines in each area visited
- Possibility of photos in the vineyards in Gigondas and Séguret
- LunchApril to October (morning tour in 3 areas): picnic with fresh produce from local farms: boiled eggs, tapenade, pepper cream, fresh goat cheese, fruit, fruit juice
- Tips
- Picnic for the afternoon tours
- Picnic for options in only 2 areas
- Purchase of bottles of wine directly at the estate (purchases possible in all areas visited)
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Hôtel Le Bristol Avignon44 Cr Jean Jaurès, 84000 Avignon, France
Wait outside the Hotel Le Bristol. Black car with Ventourism on the sides. If you are not staying in Avignon intra-muros, please contact me to arrange another meeting point.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
1
Beaumes-de-Venise
45 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
2
Gigondas
1 hour 45 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
3
Chateauneuf-du-Pape
45 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
- Most travelers can participate
- Possibility to buy bottles of wine (or cartons) directly at the estate
- Possibility to ship wine directly to your country, except for Seguret and Beaumes de Venise (subject to shipping costs and taxes)
- Some areas work with importers in some countries, do not hesitate to ask for their contacts
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 8 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
4.9
based on 125 reviews
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Wonderful experience! We really enjoyed the county side and the wine tasting experience. Our guide Arnaud was warm, kind and knowledgeable. We really enjoyed the picnic lunch with local foods. Highly recommend this experience to anyone interested in learning more about the local wines. Bravo!
Arnaud was a great guide. He was very thoughtful and knowledgeable about the area and the wines. We enjoyed the tour and the picnic.
Response from Host, Aug 2026
Thank you very much for your kind review. Really appreciated 🙂
5 STARS! Our tour guide made this trip exceptional! He was extremely knowledgeable, very accommodating & friendly, plus he never rushed us at all. His English was textbook! The 3 stops we made were well chosen for good wines & very friendly vineyard hosts. Our guide packed a fresh lunch for us, grown locally. He offered to store our purchases in his cooler. Accompanied us on garden walks pointing out the names of the herbs & the flowers. He always offered to take photos.
Wife noted that the van was very clean & she loved all the water he had for us. She said she felt like we were wine tasting with a friend.
Look no further- this is the tour to book.
Response from Host, Aug 2026
I don’t know how to thank you, Gavin! Your review is something I was dreaming about when I created this company and these tours.
Thank Olga as well for noticing that I clean the van everyday for each tour, sometimes quickly when I arrive back home a bit late in the evening. Cleaning the van is the invisible part of the job, but also very important and I am happy that your wife pointed my efforts on it.
Don’t forget to contact me again for your trip next year, I will do my best to arrange something special for you.
All the best to you and Olga. Take care of yourself.
Arnaud, Ventourisme manager
Any wine lover should experience this. Arnaud our guide was very accommodating. Also speaks really good English so I very appreciate how he translated everything. He also took us to the most beautiful wineries. Would highly highly recommend!
Response from Host, Aug 2026
Thank you very much Ray! And thank you also for the another tour you booked with me next year! I hope you and your friends will have fun on this lavender tour!
See you next year.
Arnaud, Ventourisme manager
Arnaud was a fabulous host and tour guide. Our group was very diverse (a couple from Switzerland, a couple from Australia, a woman from Hungary, a gentleman from Canada (French speaking), and a gentleman from California who moved to France 4 years ago) and me (an American from Florida). Luckily for me, everyone (including Arnaud) was comfortable with English. He was so knowledgeable about each of the histories of the wineries and the history of wine making in that area. We were greeted at each winery with a sommelier who guided us through their process. After the second winery, we had a delicious family-style meal compliments of Arnaud himself. He had fresh goat cheeses from his village, two types of tapenades (the black olive one was delish), fresh hard boiled eggs from his parents' farm, and the freshest cantaloupe I've ever had. We sat at a picnic table under a tree in the vineyard with a breeze blowing. I felt like a true Parisian! By far an amazing tour. I had a day to spend alone in Avignon and I was thrilled to spend it with these other travelers, lovely wines, and a fantastic tour guide. Book this tour. Arnaud is a one man business and deserves many years of tours. If this is any indication of the quality of tours he offers, I would have loved to try his other four tours. Thanks, Arnaud for a fabulous day!
Response from Host, Aug 2026
Hello Shelley,
I take time to answer your fabulous review. I cannot thank you enough! Reading that kind of comment makes me very happy. This is exactly why I love my job and why I had the best idea ever to create my own business about 4 years ago.
If you come to Avignon again, I hope you will contact me for another tour, it would be a real pleasure to drive you again and show you other beautiful parts of my wonderful region!
Take care of yourself.
Arnaud, Ventourisme manager
Arnaud did a great job. We were lucky and no one else was booked with us so it was a very private tour. All three wineries were great. The picnic lunch was great with a variety of items to eat and a great picnic area at the second winery. Arnaud has a great knowledge of wine and the area. You will not regret booking this tour!
About out to Arnauld our guide for his hospitality and generally a very nice experience. Would recommend
Arnoud gave us a wonderful experience through the eyes of someone who has the region in his heart. Cherries from his dad’s orchard was a added bonus for lunch.
Arnaud finds some hidden gems and is very knowledgeable of the region. The van was nice and comfortable and the ride was great. Everything including a light lunch was fantastic. Would book Arnaud again in a heartbeat.
We had a lovely time on this tour! Would absolutely recommend. Our guide was very knowledgeable and personable. The picnic he provided was delicious and such a treat. Definitely book this trip!
Arnaud is a great guide, very personable and very knowledgeable on his wineries.
Visit small to large vineyards
Weather great and loved sitting out having a bit on lunch in the countryside
Our guide was super knowledgeable respectful and entertaining. We had a great time tasting wines and laughing. The van was immaculate and service was top notch. Highly recommend
This tour was so much more than a normal wine tasting. Our guide Arlo was very knowledgeable on the wines in Provence and the smaller regions. It gave us a deeper appreciation wine making. The lunch with local food was a highlight. The wine area of Chateauneuf du Pape is beautiful. We had such an enjoyable day.
Guide was fantastic! Arnaud was Knowledgeable about the wines, the area. Prepared and arranged a delicious locally grown lunch. Super friendly and nice.
A fabulous experience, interesting and enjoyable. Just the right length of time and a great range of wineries visited.
This was our second tour with Araund and he didn’t disappoint. He’s extremely knowledgeable and you can tell his passion for wines. He was informative without being obtuse. The three wineries were all different enough to give a nice overview and selection of wines to taste. All in all a great day!
3 wineries- all different- great wines - very nice vintners.
Lots of information shared in a very nice atmosphere
Do it
Our driver and guide Arnoux, is a very knowledgeable wine guy who truly loves showing the sun-drenched vineyards of Chateauneuf du Pape, Beaumes de Venise
and Gigondas.
He’s a very easy, amiable and a real people person, who travels the World whenever he gets the chance. His tour, I truly enjoyed and I would highly recommend..
Outstanding! A delightful visit into the country side, very good commentary all along the way. Visited 3 wineries and a very nice picnic lunch…all a really good value
A nice excursion from Avignon to three different wine regions nearby. Great tasting experiences and a lovely picnic lunch with local products. Our host was very knowledgeable and congenial. I live in Sonoma County in California and have had many wine tasting experiences and I was impressed with this tour.
The Chateauneuf-du-Pape wine tour was amazing from start to finish. Arnoud our guide was from the area and is doing a job he truly loves. He was very knowledgeable and made us feel welcome and comfortable visiting the three wineries our tour. You could tell that he had a great relationship with the wineries and that they were comfortable letting him show us around some of their behind the scenes areas. His commentary fit well with their history of each winery, and our group gained a lot of knowledge about each wine and the hard work that went into its production. We had a picnic lunch provided by our guide with a selection of foods native to the area that were all delicious. Probably the best wine tour I have experienced, and that is saying a lot.
Lovely opportunity to visit wineries in the area near Avignon. The guide was excellent and knowledgeable.
I really loved this tour! It was very informative and I certainly learned a lot from our guide, who was a really lovely guy. He cared so much for the guests and was very attentive and keen to ensure we all had a good time. He took us to some very unusual and different wineries and we tasted a very wide variety of different wines. If anyone is reading this to try and decide whether to book onto the tour, I’d say, just do it! You won’t be disappointed.
Fun day! No pressure to buy wine but a great experience to learn about wines in the region. Yummy picnic!
It was a great experience in a 4 people group. Arnaud was personable, kind, and knowledgeable about the region and wines. He brought us local produce from his hometown for lunch, which was very tasty. We visited 3 different wineries and tasted a lot of wines, learnt quite a lot about wine making. We met awesome local folks who were very friendly. It was great to have an almost private tour without huge crowds. Big cudos to our guide Arnaud who did an excellent job! It’s not a tour run by a big company, it’s Arnaud’s small business venture. I believe that made the experience a lot more memorable and personable. Highly recommend.
It was our first trip to France. We went specifically for wine tasting in the Southern Rhone region. We first booked the Ventourisme Wines from Châteauneuf-du-Pape and surrounding areas 1/2 day tour through Viator. It far exceeded our expectations! We ended up spending three days (3 wine tours) with Arnaud from Ventourisme and were not disappointed. I have to begin by saying, we had no experience booking our own tours abroad. We typically use a travel agent. This time we did it on our own. I always read the reviews, and I am often skeptical of reviews that are too favorable. That notwithstanding, I am providing an outstanding review because our experience with Arnaud deserves the highest marks and praise.
Over the course of the three days we were taken to nine different wineries, all varying in wines, family history, and from several Appalachians. The routes taken to get to each winery provided beautiful views of France. Arnaud provide detailed information on the landscapes, climate, and plants along the way. He also provided thorough information on each of the wineries; owners, family history, wine varietals, and what blends we would be tasting at each winery. We learned that we were not very knowledgeable on French wines. Arnaud passed along a significant amount of information that allowed us to appreciate each of the tasting. Each day a local picnic lunch was provide sourced with local ingredients including; fresh goat cheese from a friend’s farm, fresh hard-boiled eggs from a friend’s chickens, freshly made juices, local tapenades, local sourced products on a charcuterie board, homemade white boar pate, vegetables from Arnaud’s family garden, etc. It was fabulous. My husband has a lot of food allergies, we provide Arnaud a list of items he couldn’t eat, and Arnaud was respectful and made sure each day he could eat the picnic lunch.
All in all we had and incredible time thanks to all the work and effort from Arnaud. We highly recommend his company and tours. Should we find ourselves in the south of France again we will definitely book with Ventourisme and Arnaud.
Thank you for such a unique, fun, and learning experience.
Response from Host, Nov 2024
Hello Heather,
I hope you, Mark and Matt are going well. I am so happy to read such a wonderful comment! I can’t thank you enough for this. I have to say I really enjoyed the 3 days we spent together on the roads and in the wineries of the Southern Rhône. Of course, it would be a big pleasure to drive you again in my region, you are very welcome!
Take care of yourself!
Arnaud
We had a very good time with our local tour guide. He was very knowledgeable and sweet. He also brought a lovely snack from local farmers. 😋
Our guide was great, the scenery was beautiful, and the wineries were lovely. We would never have been able to do this on our own. Thank you!
The tasting was great. I would have enjoyed to visit more cellars or to see the factory working. The point is not just to get drunk
Arnoud is knowledgeable, engaging and generous with his time. I have done tours like this in many countries. His ranks #1 to date.
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