Napa Valley Wine Tour: Self-Guided GPS Audio Driving Guide

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About this activity

Drive Napa Valley yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks the whole region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Downtown Napa near Oxbow Public Market, Yountville, St. Helena or Calistoga — choose the cellar doors you want from the 58 mapped across the valley, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 82 narrated stories cover the valley's people and places: as you pass Oakville you'll hear how one afternoon in Paris on 24 May 1976, when a 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon beat the great chateaux of Bordeaux at Steven Spurrier's blind tasting, put this valley back on the world map. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long lunch, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops, because everything downloads offline. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.

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At a glance

Duration: 2–12 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–5
Audio guide: Chinese, English
Operated by: Wine Trails

What is included

Included

Included: Email and in-app chat support
Included: Buy once, no expiry - use it on this trip and every future trip
Included: Trip planner to build, reorder and save your own route
Included: Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
Included: 58 mapped Napa Valley cellar doors with ratings and whether a reservation is required
Included: GPS-triggered audio driving tour of Napa Valley - stories play automatically at each location
Included: One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle

Itinerary

Robert Mondavi Winery

one hour

Robert Mondavi left his family's Charles Krug winery after a fistfight with his brother and built this Cliff May-designed arch at Oakville in 1966, the first major Napa winery since Prohibition.
Beringer Vineyards

one hour

Jacob and Frederick Beringer founded this St. Helena estate in 1876 and had Chinese labourers hand-cut tunnels into the hillside; it stayed open through Prohibition on sacramental wine.
V. Sattui Winery

one hour

Vittorio Sattui started selling wine from a North Beach cellar in 1885; his great-grandson revived the label here in 1976, and the wines are still sold only at the winery.
Castello di Amorosa

one hour Admission not included

Dario Sattui spent thirteen years building a 121-room, 13th-century-style Tuscan castle above Calistoga, hand-laying imported stone down to a working drawbridge and moat.
Sterling Vineyards

one hour

A white hilltop winery reached by aerial tram, three hundred feet above the valley floor, with the bells of a 12th-century London church hanging outside.
Frog's Leap Winery

one hour

John Williams farms dry, without irrigation, on an old Rutherford frog farm; the red barn dates to 1884 and the house motto is that time's fun when you're having flies.
Inglenook

one hour

Gustave Niebaum founded this Rutherford estate in 1879; Francis Ford Coppola bought it back piece by piece with Godfather money and reunited the original vineyard in 1995.
Domaine Carneros

one hour

The Taittinger family of Champagne built this chateau on the cool Carneros flats in 1987, modelled on their own 18th-century Chateau de la Marquetterie.
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars

one hour

Warren Winiarski's 1973 Cabernet beat the first growths of Bordeaux at the 1976 Judgment of Paris, and the vineyard that grew it sits on the Silverado Trail.

Meeting point and pickup

Everyone meets at the meeting point.

Meeting point

Start anywhere you like - this is a self-guided driving tour and the audio plays by GPS. Calistoga is a convenient place to begin.
Start anywhere you like - this is a self-guided driving tour and the audio plays by GPS. St. Helena is a convenient place to begin.
Start anywhere you like - this is a self-guided driving tour and the audio plays by GPS. Yountville is a convenient place to begin.
Start anywhere you like - this is a self-guided driving tour and the audio plays by GPS. Oxbow Public Market in downtown Napa is a convenient place to begin, with parking and food before you head up valley.

End point

Start anywhere you like - this is a self-guided driving tour and the audio plays by GPS. Calistoga is a convenient place to begin.
Start anywhere you like - this is a self-guided driving tour and the audio plays by GPS. St. Helena is a convenient place to begin.
Start anywhere you like - this is a self-guided driving tour and the audio plays by GPS. Yountville is a convenient place to begin.
Start anywhere you like - this is a self-guided driving tour and the audio plays by GPS. Oxbow Public Market in downtown Napa is a convenient place to begin, with parking and food before you head up valley.

Using your ticket

BEFORE YOU TRAVEL

Download the free Wine Trails app (iOS or Android) and Create Your Account while you're on wifi.

UNLOCK YOUR REGION

Open the app → "Redeem a booking or code"

Choose "Booked online"

Enter your Viator booking reference (starts with BR-) and the Last Name on the booking

BUILD YOUR DAY — AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIKE

This isn't one fixed route. Tell the app your date, where you're staying and your group size, and it builds you a custom itinerary — hand-picked wineries, routed with no backtracking. Don't love it? Generate another. Coming back tomorrow? Build a completely different day. No limit, no extra cost.

BEFORE YOU DRIVE

Download your tour over wifi. Coverage in wine country is patchy, and the offline download means you never lose the narration mid-drive.

ON THE ROAD

Just drive. Each winery's story plays automatically through your car speakers as your GPS arrives — hands free, eyes on the road, no phone handling.

IT'S YOURS FOR GOOD

One booking unlocks Napa Valley on your account permanently. Unlimited tours, unlimited routes, no subscription, no expiry. Come back next year and it's still there.

Cancellation

Free cancellation

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

If you cancel	You get back
At least one day before	100%
Less than a day before	0%

Good to know

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Specialized infant seats are available
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
By giving your phone number you agree to receive up to 2 texts from Wine Trails about this booking (your tour link and a tour-day reminder)
Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency: max 2 texts per booking. Reply STOP to opt out, HELP for help
Before you travel: download the free Wine Trails app (iOS or Android) and create your account while you are on wifi
Unlock your region in the app: tap Redeem a booking or code, choose Booked online, then enter your Viator booking reference (starts with BR-) and the last name on the booking
Download your tour over wifi before you drive: coverage in wine country is patchy and the offline download keeps the narration playing
One booking unlocks Napa Valley on your account for good: unlimited routes and tours, no expiry, no subscription