Beaujolais Wine Tasting Tour from Lyon: 12 wines and a winemaker

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1/18

Duration4h

GroupUp to 8

LanguagesEN

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Taste 12 wines at a sensory circuit, then meet the winemaker behind five more

A half-day wine tour from Lyon through the Beaujolais region with a driver-guide, taking in Fleurie, Morgon, and Moulin à Vent. You start at Château de Pizay's oenosensorial circuit, where you sample 12 estate wines using all five senses and earn an amateur oenologist diploma, then travel the wine route and finish at a family-run winery where the winemaker shares their craft and pours five exceptional wines. The tour runs four hours in a shared air-conditioned minivan with a live English-speaking guide.

Step-by-step itinerary

Beaujolais wine tasting and vineyard tour

Start at Château de Pizay oenosensorial circuit
Sample 12 estate wines and earn diploma
Travel along Beaujolais Wine Route
Pass through Morgon, Fleurie, Juliénas
Visit family winery and meet winemaker
Taste five exceptional wines

The Experience

Four hours is enough to move through three of Beaujolais's most celebrated villages and taste what makes each one distinct. You start at Château de Pizay's oenosensorial circuit — an interactive tasting room where you work through 12 wines using sight, smell, taste, touch and sound to understand the terroir. It's designed to teach, not just pour: you'll learn how the landscape shapes what's in the glass, and you leave with an amateur oenologist diploma. From there the minivan takes you up the famous Beaujolais Wine Route, passing through the rolling hills and stone villages of Morgon, Fleurie, and Juliénas.

The second half lands you at a family winery where the owner works the vineyard themselves. They walk you through their process — why they chose certain grapes, how they age the wine, what they're trying to pull from their specific patch of earth — and then you taste five of their wines. This is not a tasting room built for tourists; it's a working winery, and the conversation shifts from what wine is to what this one is.

Your guide drives and talks the whole way, pointing out the landscape and the appellations as you pass through them. The minivan is air-conditioned and holds a small group, so there's room to breathe and ask questions. If you're coming from Lyon and want to see why Beaujolais matters without spending a full day arranging transport and finding wineries on your own, this tour builds the day for you.

What’s included

Wine tastings at Château de Pizay (12 wines) and the family winery (5 wines).
transport in a shared air-conditioned minivan.
driver-guide in English for the full four hours.
and your amateur oenologist diploma from the oenosensorial circuit.

Good to know

Easy physical levelInfant seats availablePublic transport nearby

Operated by Tasty Lyon

Is this one for you?Book this if your group wants a guided half-day wine tour where the driver-guide leads tastings at multiple Beaujolais villages—choose this over self-driving if you prefer someone else behind the wheel and navigating between Fleurie, Morgon, and Moulin à Vent.