Wine Tour India
Destination
Trip Highlights
Mumbai: – Explore Elephanta Caves with a visit to Gateway of India
Nashik: – Winery tour and Wine tasting session
Pune: – Visiting Shindyanchi Chhatri and Aga Khan Palace
Bangalore: – Tour of Grover Vineyards at the foothills of Nandi Hills.
Day Wise Plan
Day 1: Arrive Mumbai
Arrive in Mumbai by flight and proceed to your hotel.
Overnight in Mumbai.
Day 2: Mumbai
Morning after breakfast excursion to Elephant Caves enroute visit Gateway of India. Visit this green island for the wonders of the 7th century, the painstakingly hewn rock-cut cave temple, dedicated to Shiva.
Come back from the elephant caves and proceed for lunch at a local restaurant.
Afternoon drive past a popular seafront. Marine Drive is a winding stretch of road with tall buildings on one side and sea on the other. Tours continues with visit to Mani Bhawan & Hanging Gardens.
Also visit Dhobi Ghat – A unique feature of Mumbai, the dhobi is a traditional laundryman, who will collect your dirty linen, wash it, and return it neatly pressed to your doorstep.
Overnight in Mumbai.
Day 3: Mumbai – Nashik
Morning, after breakfast drive to Nashik. Upon arrival check in at Beyond Vineyard Resort
Nashik is India’s wine capital. Lavish vineyards and well-developed winery infrastructure make Nashik the perfect wine tour destination.
Late afternoon winery tour and wine tasting at the Resort.
Overnight in Nashik
Day 4: Nashik
Post breakfast, the tourists would be taken to two more chosen vineyards.
Zampa Vinveyard – After the arrival of guests, a session including the brief history of Grover Zampa and information about vines and vineyard cultivation will be conducted before moving to the vineyard.
Winery tour starts from our Grape Receival Area. After that the group shall move to understand filtering, processing, fermentation, storing in tanks, bottling, labelling and packaging of wine bottles which are ready for sales.
In the barrel room, our professionals will make sure that you have some fun and taste 5 or 7 different varieties of wine. The tasting session will take around 45 to 90 minutes, Options are given to the guests to choose from Zampa or Grover brands. 7 wines package includes 2 whites, 1 rose, 2 reds and 2 sparkling wines.
Lunch would be provided.
Afternoon proceed for local sightseeing visiting Mukti dham temple and coin museum.
Later visit York winery. The winery is designed on multiple levels where the various production areas of grape receival, crushing, red winemaking, white winemaking, barrel cellar, bottling & storage are located separately in a streamlined fashion.
Tours operate from between 12:30pm to 6pm.
Overnight in Nashik
Day 5: Nashik Pune
After breakfast in the morning, drive to Pune Upon arrival, Check in at hotel.
Afternoon sightseeing of Pune visiting Shindyanchi Chhatri and Aga Khan Palace
Overnight in Pune
Day 6: Pune – Bangalore
After breakfast, transfer to Pune airport to board flight for Bangalore.
Rest of the day relax at the hotel.
Overnight in Bangalore
Day 7: Bangalore – Nandi Hills
After breakfast in the morning, a full day excursion tour to Grover Vineyards.
Grover Vineyards is situated at the foothill of Nandi Hills, which is approx. 50 kms from Bangalore. Here you can taste different varieties of wine. After lunch & exploring the Vineyard, drive back to Bangalore. Evening is free for my own activities.
The winery tour starts from our crushing unit. After that the group shall move to understand filtering, processing, fermentation, storing in tanks, bottling, labeling and packaging of wine bottles which are ready for sales
Note: The entire tour will be conducted by a group of professionals in their respective areas.
Barrel room is where we age our premium brand of wine with a tasting setup made out of real oak barrels.
our professionals will make sure that you have some fun and taste 5 different varieties of wine. The tasting session would take around 60 to 90 minutes.
Once you are through with the tour, we have our chefs ready with a delicious spread of buffet.
Overnight in Bangalore
Day 8: Bangalore – Mysore
Morning drive to Mysore. Upon arrival check in at the hotel.
Thereafter visit two wineries.
Overnight in Mysore
Day 9: Mysore – Bangalore
Morning short trip to Mysore Place and then drive to Bangalore and upon arrival check in at hotel.
Afternoon orientation tour of Bangalore visiting Tipu’s Palace, Bull Temple, Lalbagh and Vidhana Soudha (Outside view).
Overnight in Bangalore
Day 10: Depart Bangalore
In time transfer to Bangalore airport to board flight back home.