Mount Tamborine Winery Tour from Brisbane & Distillery Tasting

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1/19

Duration8h

GroupUp to 13

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Six hours on Mount Tamborine: three wineries, one distillery, lunch with a chef

You spend the day moving between three family-run wineries and a boutique distillery on Mount Tamborine, tasting 6–10 wines at each stop plus spirits made in small batches. Lunch is a two-course meal prepared by an award-winning chef, and you get time to browse Gallery Walk's specialty shops before heading back to Brisbane. Door-to-door pickup means you don't arrange transport or timing yourself.

Step-by-step itinerary

Mount Tamborine winery and distillery tour

Travel from Brisbane to Mount Tamborine
Visit Witches Falls winery for wine tasting
Enjoy guided tasting of 6-10 wine varieties
Have gourmet 2 course lunch
Tour Tamborine Mountain Distillery and taste spirits
Explore Gallery Walk shops and taste gourmet fudge

The Experience

The valley opens up as you climb out of Brisbane toward the Gold Coast Hinterland, and the air shifts — cooler, clearer, carrying the smell of eucalyptus and red earth. You're heading to Mount Tamborine, where the day splits between family-run wineries that have been making wine here for decades and a distillery that still uses handmade copper pot stills the way Alla Ward's Russian and Ukrainian ancestors did. The drive takes about an hour from Brisbane, and the vehicle is new, which matters when you're spending the day tasting and don't want to feel jostled around.

At each winery stop, you'll taste between 6 and 10 wines — the kind of guided tasting where someone actually knows what they're pouring and why it matters. Witches Falls, the first national park in Queensland, sits on the mountain itself, and the wineries there combine old techniques with modern practice in ways that show. You're not rushing through; small groups max out at 13 people, so there's room to ask questions or linger over a glass. Somewhere in the middle of the day, lunch arrives — a proper two-course meal made by an award-winning chef at one of the venues, not a sandwich in a car park.

After the wineries, you stop at Tamborine Mountain Distillery, where the spirits are made in small batches with native flora and natural ingredients. The tasting there is different — smoother, more concentrated — and it's a chance to see how the artisanal process actually works. Then Gallery Walk, which is 75 shops strung together on the mountain, most of them selling things you didn't know you wanted: specialty chocolates, fudge, more wine if you've decided you need it. You get time to browse and taste the fudge, which sounds small until you're standing there with a sample in your hand and the afternoon light coming through the shop windows.

Door-to-door service means the driver picks you up from your Brisbane hotel and brings you back, so you don't have to think about parking or navigation. The whole thing runs about six hours. Bring a jumper if it's cooler weather — the mountain is higher and the wind is real — and avoid white shoes because the red dirt stains. Bring a refillable water bottle too; the company doesn't use single-use plastic.

What’s included

Your day includes door-to-door pickup from your Brisbane hotel in a new luxury vehicle, guided tastings of 6–10 wines at three family-run wineries on Mount Tamborine, a two-course lunch prepared by an award-winning chef, a tasting at Tamborine Mountain Distillery, fudge tasting and browsing time at Gallery Walk's 75 specialty shops, and return transport to your hotel. Small group maximum of 13 people, and GST is included.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPets welcomePublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelers

Operated by Pineapple Tours

Is this one for you?Right for wine lovers who want to taste across multiple boutique wineries without arranging their own transport, timing, or lunch — the fixed itinerary and door-to-door pickup mean you show up and the day unfolds.