Decision
Best Clare Valley Wine Tours for 2026
The best day if you sleep in the valley, from Adelaide, with your own group, alone, or for serious Riesling drinkers, and which fares hold the tastings.
Clare Valley Travel Guides
These are long reads for the choices a booking page cannot make for you. Which wine tour is best? How do you plan one day or three? Can you see the valley without a guide? What do the fares include, and when do the festivals fall? Keep the Clare Valley guided tours open beside them to compare fares as you read.
Start with the itinerary if your dates are set. Start with the prices guide if your budget is. The blog answers single questions in fewer words.
Itinerary
Clare Valley Itinerary: One, Two and Three Days
A day from Adelaide, a tour day and a trail day, and three days with Burra and Mintaro, with the town to sleep in and the tour that fits each plan.
On your own
The Clare Valley Without a Tour
Who drives and the 0.05 limit, the coach from Adelaide, the Riesling Trail by bike, taxis, booking your own tastings, and when a tour wins.
Prices
Clare Valley Wine Tour Prices and What They Include
Why there is no ticket, what each fare holds, how the private day is priced, what the Adelaide pickup costs you, tips, and every fare side by side.
Seasonal
Clare Valley Festivals Through the Year
The Gourmet Festival in May, the Festival of the Lamb in September, the October long weekend and the monthly markets, with the weather and when to book.
The towns and pickups are on the Clare Valley map. The routes in are on getting to the Clare Valley, and every tour is compared on Clare Valley Tours.