Southern Crush: Our Tours
1. Escape to the Highlands:
This is our most popular tour and runs on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. This wine tasting tour was specifically designed to be an all inclusive, comprehensive and relaxed tour experience. Our wine tours to one of Australia's great cool climate wine regions depart from and return to Sydney with a convenient pick up in the Southern Highlands at the Mittagong Visitor's Information Centre for people already in the area. Tours depart Sydney at 8:00am and return approximately 6:00pm.
Tour Includes:
- Personalised tasting tool kit
- Wine tastings and activities at up to 4 wineries
- Stop in historic township of Berrima
- Three course gourmet lunch (with vegetarian options)
- Cheese and wine pairing
- All transport
- Services of our driver/guide
Tour Cost: $160 Inc GST
2. Escape to the highlands (light):
This tour is an alternative for guests who would prefer lunch at their own cost.
Tour Includes:
- Personalised tasting tool kit
- Tastings and activities at 3 wineries
- Stop in historic township of Berrima
- Cheese and wine pairing
- All transport
- Services of our driver/guide
Tour Cost: $130 Inc GST
3. Half-day corporate tours:
Tours are individually customised and quoted for corporate groups that have limited time but would like a premium quality half-day tour experience.
Tour Sample:
- Tasting at 2 wineries
- First winery: Enjoy an interactive presentation on how to taste wine and then indulge in a cheese and wine pairing.
- Second winery: Winery Tour and tasting with the wine maker followed by a 3-course gourmet lunch with wines paired to each course.
- Each guest will receive a 2-pack wine gift box with 1 bottle from each winery.
Tour Cost: Quotes given to reflect your group's requirements.
4. Team Building Tours:
Specially designed tours for groups that are looking for activities that incorporate team building and team bonding aspects. This tour is great for management groups or groups of competitive friends.
Tour Sample:
- Groups are split into teams and given basic instruction on why and how wines are commonly blended together.
- Each team is given measuring equipment and three bottles wine, which will be, blended together into that team's signature blend.
- Each team will come up with a name, label concept, and marketing plan for their wine.
- A panel of judges will then award a winner based on the merits of each team's final product.
- Lunch to follow with a dessert cooking demonstration and recreation contest where each team member is responsible for one stage of the dessert preparation and presentation.
Tour Cost: Quotes given to reflect your group's requirements.
Special Tours:
Periodically we will be running special tours that may incorporate events or themes in the Highlands such as Day On The Green Concerts. Please visit our website regularly or use our Contact Us page to register for an e-mail notification to be sent to you automatically as soon as special tours are announced. Special tours will have limited seating available and may require minimum numbers to proceed.
When planning a group tour please note:
Southern Crush generally considers a group to be 10 or more people.
If you would like an exclusive tour experience please note:
Southern Crush will generally make exclusive bookings for groups of 15 or more
To Book Tours use our Contact Us page to call or e-mail for availability. Once your booking has been confirmed you can use our shopping cart facility to finalise your transaction and we will send payment confirmation by e-mail.
If you would like to pay cash on the day of the tour we will just need a credit card number to hold your reservation.
