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Napa Valley Wine Tour: Self-Guided GPS Audio Driving Guide

5.0/5 Napa & Sonoma, Santa Rosa from Wine Trails
  • Duration2 hours
  • Max Travelers5 people
  • Free CancellationUp to 24 hrs
  • CategoryAudio Guides, Bus Tours

Overview

Drive Napa Valley 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 — Downtown Napa near Oxbow Public Market, Yountville, St. Helena or Calistoga — choose the cellar doors you want from the 58 mapped across the valley, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 82 narrated stories cover the valley’s people and places: as you pass Oakville you’ll hear how one afternoon in Paris on 24 May 1976, when a 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon beat the great chateaux of Bordeaux at Steven Spurrier’s blind tasting, put this valley back on the world map. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops, because everything downloads offline. You’ll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.

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What's included

  • Email and in-app chat support

  • Buy once, no expiry - use it on this trip and every future trip

  • Trip planner to build, reorder and save your own route

  • Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone

  • 58 mapped Napa Valley cellar doors with ratings and whether a reservation is required

  • GPS-triggered audio driving tour of Napa Valley - stories play automatically at each location

  • One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle

Itinerary

  • Robert Mondavi left his family's Charles Krug winery after a fistfight with his brother and built this Cliff May-designed arch at Oakville in 1966, the first major Napa winery since Prohibition.

  • Jacob and Frederick Beringer founded this St. Helena estate in 1876 and had Chinese labourers hand-cut tunnels into the hillside; it stayed open through Prohibition on sacramental wine.

  • Vittorio Sattui started selling wine from a North Beach cellar in 1885; his great-grandson revived the label here in 1976, and the wines are still sold only at the winery.

  • Dario Sattui spent thirteen years building a 121-room, 13th-century-style Tuscan castle above Calistoga, hand-laying imported stone down to a working drawbridge and moat.

  • A white hilltop winery reached by aerial tram, three hundred feet above the valley floor, with the bells of a 12th-century London church hanging outside.

  • John Williams farms dry, without irrigation, on an old Rutherford frog farm; the red barn dates to 1884 and the house motto is that time's fun when you're having flies.

  • Gustave Niebaum founded this Rutherford estate in 1879; Francis Ford Coppola bought it back piece by piece with Godfather money and reunited the original vineyard in 1995.

  • The Taittinger family of Champagne built this chateau on the cool Carneros flats in 1987, modelled on their own 18th-century Chateau de la Marquetterie.

  • Warren Winiarski's 1973 Cabernet beat the first growths of Bordeaux at the 1976 Judgment of Paris, and the vineyard that grew it sits on the Silverado Trail.

Good to know

  • Wheelchair accessible

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

  • Service animals allowed

  • Specialized infant seats are available

  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

  • By giving your phone number you agree to receive up to 2 texts from Wine Trails about this booking (your tour link and a tour-day reminder)

  • Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency: max 2 texts per booking. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help

  • Before you travel: download the free Wine Trails app (iOS or Android) and create your account while you are on wifi

  • Unlock your region in the app: tap Redeem a booking or code, choose Booked online, then enter your Viator booking reference (starts with BR-) and the last name on the booking

  • Download your tour over wifi before you drive: coverage in wine country is patchy and the offline download keeps the narration playing

  • One booking unlocks Napa Valley on your account for good: unlimited routes and tours, no expiry, no subscription

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

100% Refund 24 hours or more before the start time
0% Refund Less than 24 hours before the start time

Reviews

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