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Niagara Wine Tour & Tastings with Hotel Pickup

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Duration6h–7h

GroupUp to 55

LanguagesEN

Mobile ticketAccepted

Three Wineries, Three Tastings, One Day from Your Hotel

You board a spacious bus at 10:00 AM from your Niagara Falls or Niagara-on-the-Lake hotel and visit three award-winning wineries with free tastings included at each. You'll have lunch at Puddicombe Farms (meal cost separate), browse Wayne Gretzky and Trius wineries at your own pace, and finish with a guided tasting flight at Riverview Cellars. Round-trip transportation, a knowledgeable guide, and all tastings are covered — you just book your pickup time and show up.

6h–7h

Step-by-step itinerary

Start tour at Vieni Estates winery
Enjoy multiple complimentary wine tastings
Shop or relax on outdoor patio
Visit Puddicombe Farms fruit farm
Sample free wine and hard cider
Have casual lunch at Puddicombe Farms
Stroll grounds and optional hobby train ride
Stop at Wayne Gretzky and Trius wineries
Shop and explore wineries, no tastings

The Experience

Most wine tours in Niagara pack you into a van with strangers and rush you through a gift shop. This one starts at 10:00 AM from your hotel in Niagara Falls or Niagara-on-the-Lake, loads you onto a spacious multi-passenger bus, and actually gives you time to breathe between stops. The difference hits you at the first winery — Vieni Estates, sprawled across 200 acres on the Niagara Escarpment — where you get multiple free tastings instead of a single pour and a sales pitch. The staff there are genuinely friendly, not performing friendliness. You can ask about their homemade grappa, wander the outdoor patio with a glass in hand, or just sit with the vines. It's casual in a way that feels earned, not forced.

After Vieni, the tour stops at Puddicombe Farms — a working fruit farm since 1797 — where you taste free wine and hard cider samples, then break for lunch. This is where you pay for your own meal (stone-oven pizzas, sandwiches, charcuterie boards), but the farm's general store and bakery are right there, and if you're into it, they run a hobby train you can hop on for a few dollars. The whole lunch block gives you real time to decompress, not the rushed 20 minutes you get on other tours. Then comes Wayne Gretzky Estates and Trius — both stops for shopping and exploring, no tastings included here, but Wayne Gretzky has an onsite distillery and a rink-side bar if you want a cocktail with a view. Trius is next door, connected by a scenic pathway through the vines, and their wine boutique is one of the biggest in the region.

The final stop is Riverview Cellars, perched on the Niagara Parkway overlooking 110 acres. Here you get a proper flight of three wine samples in one of their private tasting rooms, with time to chat with their staff about what you're drinking. The whole experience is built around the fact that Niagara Fun Tours is the only public wine touring company in the region — they've been doing this long enough to know that people don't want to be herded. Your tour guide or driver stays with the group the whole time, keeps things moving without rushing, and the bus itself is comfortable enough that you're not white-knuckling the armrest by hour three. Pickup happens at three different locations, so you choose what works for your schedule. The tour wraps by late afternoon, and you're back at your hotel without having to navigate unfamiliar roads or negotiate with a taxi driver.

What’s included

Round-trip transportation on a spacious multi-passenger bus with pickup from Niagara Falls or Niagara-on-the-Lake at 10:00 AM, free wine tastings at three award-winning wineries (Vieni Estates, Puddicombe Farms, and Riverview Cellars), a knowledgeable tour guide or driver for the full day, shopping and exploration time at Wayne Gretzky Estates and Trius Winery, a lunch break at Puddicombe Farms (meal cost separate), and GST. Exact winery stops may vary, and Saturday tours may include a brewery visit instead of the Farmhouse Cafe.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyPublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Niagara Fun Tours

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to taste wine at three different Niagara wineries without renting a car or coordinating your own transport — the fixed 10:00 AM departure and included pickups from two towns mean you show up and the day is already planned.