Girls trip ideas › Winery tour
The wineries day has been on the list for a few summers now. It collects a wave of very enthusiastic yeses at every birthday dinner, then dies quietly on the question of who’s driving. Not this time: cellar doors, a long lunch and somewhere to stay for all of you.
There’s a catch, and it’s holding the car keys.
Everyone’s in, the dates nearly line up, and then the whole plan stalls on one question: who’s driving? Somebody always ends up on the soft drinks, counting heads at every cellar door and watching the clock at lunch.
Some catch ups need more than a table booked for two hours. They need a whole day, a few cellar doors and nobody volunteering to be the designated driver. A winery day with your girls is worth plotting an escape for.
A whole day of being driven through beautiful country with the women who’ve been there for every phase of your wine opinions isn’t a frivolous thing to want. Girlhood never came with a use by date, and neither did this wineries day.
For once, the designated driver gets to be one of the girls.
Cellar doors by day, the debrief by night.
A winery tour girls trip with My Ultimate is a day of cellar door tastings and a long lunch with somebody else driving, built into a whole girls weekend with somewhere to stay and a night that keeps going.
Somebody else handles the driving, so the catch up starts at the kerb. Melbourne heads out to the Yarra Valley; in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast a professional host picks you up in air conditioned transport.
Three winery stops in Melbourne, two wineries in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast, with tastings at each. The tasting notes start out respectable and get less technical with every pour, until someone describes a rosé as ’tastes like a holiday’ and it’s adopted as the official review.
In Brisbane a distillery joins the escape plan with a tasting of its own, and the faces after the first sip are worth the whole trip.
A vineyard grazing lunch in Melbourne; a cheese platter and a two course lunch in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast. Stories get interrupted to pass a plate, and nobody is watching the clock.
Shoes off, couch claimed and the day getting its first replay. No lifts home to sort out, because everyone’s staying.
Rooftop dinner in Melbourne, dinner by the water on the Gold Coast, grazing at the door and a night on the couch in Brisbane. The best drop of the day gets a unanimous ruling. The second best does not.
Pick your city, pick your pour.
Each one is a whole girls weekend with the winery day built in: somewhere to stay, the food, the drinks and where to next, already in an order that works. Each city’s page has it alongside every other girls weekend there.
Prices are from, per person, for a minimum of six (seven for the Brisbane weekend). Accommodation can cost more on busy dates such as school holidays, so we confirm the price for your exact dates.
Melbourne
Sip Me Baby One More Time
A full day out in the Yarra Valley with three winery stops and a vineyard grazing lunch, then back to the city and up to a rooftop for dinner.
From $499 per person, minimum of six
What’s included
Brisbane
The Girls Grape Escape
A hosted winery tour into the hills with pick up and drop off, two wineries and a distillery, a long lunch, then grazing at your apartment door and a night on the couch.
From $529 per person, minimum of seven
What’s included
Gold Coast
Rosé All The Way
A hosted winery tour in the hills with pick up and drop off, a long lunch in wine country, then dinner by the water with bubbly and share plates.
From $599 per person, minimum of six
What’s included
Everyone with an opinion about rosé.
It works for the friend who uses the proper tasting words, and for the one who just says ’oh, that’s lovely’ with total conviction. Both are correct.
For once she’s one of the girls, glass in hand.
A table in wine country and nowhere you need to be.
A day among the vines, toasted at every cellar door.
From the twenty somethings to the friends who’ve been to every birthday since school.
The wineries day that’s been on the list for years finally gets poured.
School friends, work friends and somebody’s sister. Nothing breaks the ice like a split decision on the second best drop.
The rest of the weekend, sorted around the vines.
Every winery weekend already works on its own. These are the things that sit beautifully beside it, and a few of them can be added to the weekends above.
For the couch debrief after a day in the vines. Already in the Brisbane weekend, and an extra on the Gold Coast one.
More on grazing deliveredThe Brisbane weekend ends on the couch, fluffy socks on and trackpants winning the vote.
More on girls nights inOne more pour, up high. Already in the Melbourne weekend, and rooftop bubbles are an extra on the Gold Coast one.
More on rooftop barsMimosas and a final ruling on the best drop. An extra on the Melbourne and Gold Coast weekends.
More on bottomless brunchThe cards on what comes after the wineries. An extra on the Melbourne and Brisbane weekends.
More on tarot readingsFor the shoulders that carried the tasting notes. An extra on the Brisbane weekend.
More on day spasA Sunday pamper session to round it all off. An extra on the Melbourne weekend.
More on pamper sessionsFrom cellar door to bartender. An extra on the Gold Coast weekend.
More on cocktail makingFor the girls with energy left after the vines. An extra on all three weekends.
More on nightclub boothsThe small things the girls will ask about.
Somebody else drives. In Brisbane and on the Gold Coast a professional host picks you up and drops you back.
Something you can stand around a cellar door in all day, and an outfit for later.
Tastings at each stop, poured one after another. Favourites will be argued on the spot.
Arms around each other with the vines behind you. What goes on socials is the group’s call.
In their own words, exactly as written.
We had a fantastic experience dealing with My Ultimate.
Friendly, responsive and very knowledgeable. Every part of the conversation felt tailored to what I had actually told them rather than a scripted sales process.
For anyone who is trying to organise several personalities and wants some certainty around the decision, I would definitely recommend speaking to them.
THE LONG LUNCH.
Best part of the weekend.
No one making us leave just when we were having fun. We ordered another bottle and stayed put. Perfect.
My Ultimate has been creating unforgettable girls weekends since 2011, so we know a thing or two about bringing the girls together.
Same cellar doors, a very different weekend.
Plenty of groups book a winery tour and have a lovely day. Then the bus drops everyone back where it started, and the day ends on a footpath with half the group heading for the train.
A winery girls weekend with My Ultimate has the apartment, dinner and the night already lined up around the tour, so the day gets its retelling on the same couch, and nobody has to leave just as it gets good.
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Girls trip idea: a winery weekend. Cellar doors and a long lunch with nobody driving, then dinner and a night out, with somewhere to stay for all of us.
Melbourne from $499pp, Brisbane from $529pp, Gold Coast from $599pp. Who’s in?
https://www.myultimate-girls-trip.com.au/winery-tours-girls-trip
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Pick your city to see its winery weekend beside every other girls weekend there, prices and all. Found the one? Check your dates.
MelbourneMelbourne girls weekends
SydneyNo winery tour yet, but a sparkling tastingSee every Sydney girls weekend
BrisbaneBrisbane girls weekends
Gold CoastGold Coast girls weekendsIn Sydney there isn’t a winery tour yet, but Wine Not? has a flight of four sparkling wines at a boutique wine bar, from $479 per person. In Melbourne you can also compare every food and wine weekend side by side, prices and inclusions on one page.
Know what the girls want? Start a Melbourne girls trip wishlist, or check available dates for your group or call or chat with us on 1300 339 734.
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Still deciding? See what pairs well with a winery tour, or pick your city and see the weekends.
Cellar door tastings and lunch with somebody else driving. In Melbourne it’s three boutique winery stops in the Yarra Valley and a vineyard grazing lunch. In Brisbane and on the Gold Coast a professional host takes you to two wineries with door to door pick up, a cheese platter and a two course lunch, and Brisbane adds a distillery tasting.
The three winery weekends start from $499 per person in Melbourne, $529 in Brisbane (minimum seven) and $599 on the Gold Coast (minimum six), with somewhere to stay included. Accommodation can cost more on busy dates such as school holidays, so we confirm the price for your exact weekend when you check availability.
No. That’s the whole point. Somebody else handles the driving, with door to door pick up in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast.
Melbourne’s tour heads out to the Yarra Valley. In Brisbane and on the Gold Coast your host takes you up into the hills, to two wineries with tastings at each.
Your own apartment, then the night: a rooftop dinner in Melbourne, grazing delivered and a night on the couch in Brisbane, and dinner by the water on the Gold Coast.
Not a winery tour yet. Wine Not? has a sparkling wine tasting at a boutique wine bar, and every Sydney weekend is on the Sydney girls weekends page.
A winery tour with My Ultimate comes inside a whole girls weekend, with somewhere to stay. Pick your city to see the weekends in Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast.
Six for Melbourne and the Gold Coast, seven for Brisbane. Fewer than that? Let us know how many of you there are. We cater for groups of many sizes.
A classic. A day among the vines, a long lunch and the birthday girl toasted at every cellar door.