Margaret River: Winery & Brewery Tour with Gourmet Lunch

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Duration7h

GroupUp to 20

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Margaret River Wine, Beer & Food in One Day

You're picked up from your accommodation around 10am and spend six hours visiting seven Margaret River wineries, breweries, and food producers. Tastings include wine, beer, cheese, chocolate, and optional wild foods; lunch is served at a winery around 1pm. You're back by 5pm, and the guide covers the region's wine-making process and Aboriginal and pioneer heritage along the way. Hotel drop-off is included.

Step-by-step itinerary

Margaret River winery and brewery tour

Pickup from accommodation around 10am
Travel through forested vineyards and valleys
Learn Aboriginal, pioneer, and wine heritage
Visit 7 attractions including wineries and brewery
Enjoy gourmet lunch at a winery around 1pm
Taste wild foods and vegetarian options
Sample chocolate, cheese, yoghurt, and ice cream
Return to accommodation by 5pm

The Experience

The vehicle is already rolling when you settle in around 10am, heading straight into the forested valleys that make Margaret River famous. Your guide—a qualified wine and nature expert—starts talking about the region's Aboriginal heritage and pioneer history as the vineyards roll past, and you realize this isn't a rushed tick-box tour. You're in a small group, no more than twenty people, which means the stops feel intimate even when you're at a corporate estate. The day runs until 5pm, which sounds long until you realize it's what lets you hit seven different places without feeling hurried.

Between 11am and the lunch break around 1pm, you're tasting at wineries and a brewery, learning how Margaret River's famous vintages are made and judged. The guide handles the technical stuff—fermentation, oak aging, terroir—but keeps it conversational, not lecture-hall. Lunch arrives at a winery and includes hearty food; vegetarians and vegans get real options, not an afterthought salad. After that, the tastings keep coming: chocolate factory, five different cheeses, yoghurt, ice cream, coffee. By the time you've hit forty tastings across the day, your palate is full and your notebook is full of winery names you want to remember.

The wild foods part is optional—your guide brings unique Australian ingredients to the table, and you try them or skip them depending on how adventurous you're feeling. Chocoholics get warned about the giant freckles and chocolate massage oil that show up somewhere in the afternoon. Hotel pickup and drop-off cover Margaret River, Busselton, and Dunsborough, so if you're staying anywhere in the region, they collect you and bring you back. Just call 24 hours before to confirm the exact time, since pickups can shift by up to 40 minutes depending on where you're staying.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off from Margaret River, Busselton, or Dunsborough.
wine and beer tastings at multiple estates.
professional guide.
lunch at a winery.
tastings of cheese, chocolate, yoghurt, ice cream, coffee, and hot chocolate.
optional wild Australian foods. All tastings and food are included in the tour price.

Good to know

Easy physical level

Operated by Margaret River Bushtucker River &Winery Tours

Is this one for you?A good fit if you want to taste Margaret River's wines and breweries without driving yourself, and you have a full day to spend. The six hours and seven stops are what make the pace relaxed rather than rushed, and the lunch break keeps the tastings from blurring together.