Niagara Wine Tours International, Offering bike and van tours to wineries in Niagara, International and USA wine regions

Niagara Wine Tours

Corporate and Group Tours And Events

For the past 16 years Niagara Wine Tours International, with a Touring Center on the main street of Niagara-On-The-Lake and a new operation in Canada’s newest wine region, Prince Edward County, has organized corporate and group tours for more than 2,000 North American organizations.

A 2007 finalist in the Niagara Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in the Tourism Enterprise Award Category, the company provides the highest level of service and customer satisfaction. Niagara Wine Tours is affiliated with Bruce World of Travel, a full service American Express travel agency in downtown Toronto handling both individual and corporate clients. Bruce World of Travel books flights, hotel accommodations, and conference facilities for groups visiting Niagara. As a result, Niagara Wine Tours’ concierge service can provide one-stop shopping for corporate and group visits to the Niagara area!

Some of our clients include IBM, Procter and Gamble, Manulife Financial, Bell Canada, GlaxoSmithKline, Nesbitt Burns, Unilever Canada, SC Johnson, General Electric, Canadian Embassy, Zerox, Ogilvy Renault, Deloitte Touche, Irving Tissue, MacKenzie Financial, Microsoft, York University and many others. The company has also worked with a large number of event planners in North America who have used Niagara Wine Tours for organizing unique wine events, golf outings, and visits to attractions in Niagara Falls.

Whether an incentive program, an employee outing, an executive meeting, or a customer event for six to 200 guests, Niagara Wine Tours provides visits to Niagara Wine Country which are unique and memorable. Lunches and dinners in a private vineyard, meetings at magnificient wineries, visits with award winning winemakers, winery tours and exclusive formal wine tastings, tours led by the founder of Niagara Wine Tours – a food and wine author and film producer – add a special touch to our tours whether by bicycle, in one of our SUV or executive Mercedes vans or regular and limo coaches. The company’s tours have been featured as a success story on the CBC National News.

A few comments from our customers include:

“I would like to thank you for a wonderful tour that you have arranged for our clients and staff. I have received great reviews that your company gave an excellent tour and was
accommodating to our last minute changes. Your recommendation for lunch was also outstanding. This is one experience that they will never forget and the most enjoyable. I will highly recommend you and your staff for anyone seeking a wine tour experience.”
Cecilia Lumbre
St. Paul Travelers

"I would like to thank you and your friendly team for an excellent day! We had a superb time tasting the various reserves, feasting on a homemade gourmet lunch and just hanging out together in beautiful Niagara-On-The-Lake. What a treat!"
Sandra Petzelt,
Unilever Canada

"Our entire group found the tour interesting and entertaining ...thank you for a highly successful event, well planned and well executed."
Lorna Nieberga,
GE Capital

"I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you, again, for the wonderful trip. This was our fourth trip with Niagara Wine Tours and the best one ever.
The tour, biking, wine and food were terrific and the organization seemed effortless. We look forward to future trips with Niagara Wine Tours."
Bonnie Prussky,
Kroll Lindquist Avey Co.

"I just wanted to thank you for a wonderful experience. Everything went really well and the lunch was delicious. You can be sure that we will be yet another group that will pass the word along to further promote your business."
Wendy MacDonald,
PKF Hill Chartered Accountants

"I want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for your help in making this year's annual program one of the best in history. Your personal involvement and interest in the success of our endeavour was very obvious. You certainly went above and beyond the call of duty. You can rest assured that I will sing the praises of Niagara Wine Tours........"
Edward J. Callahan Mortgage Bankers Association of America.

Includes pick up in the Greater Toronto or surrounding areas in a Niagara Wine Tours passenger vehicle or coach, transfer to Niagara-On-The-Lake with a first stop at either Niagara’s newest winery, Southbrook Winery designed by famous Toronto architect Jack Diamond, or world renowned Jackson Triggs Winery for a private tour and wine tasting. Next stop is a three course gourmet lunch at Terroir La Cachette – one of Niagara’s finest winery restaurants – or a more casual lunch at The Old Winery Restaurant, the newest restaurant in Niagara-On-The-Lake with an open kitchen and featuring Italian cuisine.

Visit two small, estate wineries that may include Marynissen Estates which produces some of the finest red wines available in Canada and which are only available at the winery and Lailey Vineyard, where our guests have a private walking tour of the vineyard and a wine tasting with the winemaker and co-owner Derek Barnett.

Price: from $129.00 per person

Only an hour from Toronto, the wine region which includes Beamsville and Jordan has some of the finest wineries in Canada. This package includes pick up in Greater Toronto or surrounding area and visits to four wineries with a tour of one, private wine tastings at each and a three course gourmet lunch at a winery restaurant.

Fielding Estates, set in a pocket of paradise on top of the Niagara Escarpment, produces only small batches of award winning wines. Sample some of their outstanding wines in a private tasting while marveling at the views of rolling vineyards and Lake Ontario far below.

Tour and wine tasting is included at Peninsula Ridge Winery, one of the most spectacular wineries in the region. Relax over a three course gourmet lunch with paired wines in a private room in their 1885 Victorian Manor at the Restaurant at Peninsula Ridge. Alternatively, taste wines in the boutique at internationally renowned Vineland Estates and enjoy a three course lunch on the deck overlooking beautiful, rolling vineyards. Visit two other wineries for private tastings that may include Tawse Winery, Wayne Gretsky Estate Winery, Flat Rock Cellars, Featherstone or Creekside Winery.

Price: from $159.00 per person

Transfer by passenger van or coach to Niagara-On-The-Lake and our Touring Center on the main street to be outfitted on Raleigh touring bicycles. Enjoy a leisurely ride on quiet, beautiful country roads and a cycle path alongside the awesome Niagara River. Visit four award winning wineries for a tour and private tastings that include a tour and private wine tasting with a winemaker. Wineries visited may include Reif Estate Winery, Lailey Vineyard, Peller Estates, Inniskillin, Jackson-Triggs, Stratus, Riverview, and Frogpond.

A highlight of the visit is a Vintners Lunch in an antique barn or marquis in the paradise setting of a private vineyard.

Wonderful for employee outings and team building and meeting space is available at the wineries! The most relaxing and fun way to visit Wine Country!

Price: from $149.00 per person

GOLF AND WINE TOUR
Enjoy the best of both worlds! We will transfer your group to Niagara-On-The-Lake to play nine holes of golf at the famous Niagara-On-The-Lake Golf Club on the shores of Lake Ontario, the oldest golf club in North America.

Follow that with a leisurely three course lunch at the golf club restaurant with spectacular views of the lake or at a winery restaurant. After lunch visit two award winning estate wineries including a private wine tasting with a winemaker. Take home a sleeve of balls from the historic golf club.

Price: from $140.00 per person

Niagara Wine Tours will transfer you to Niagara-On-The-Lake and Canada’s only winery cooking school at Strewn Winery. A hands-on session with the cooking school chefs is approximately three hours preparing mouth watering appetizers. After the session savor the appetizers paired with Strewn Wines. The cooking school package can also be combined with a full tour of the winery. Great team building event!

Price: from $175.00 per person

We will transfer you in an executive van or limousine to the Niagara “Bench” near Beamsville for a private tour and wine tasting at the magnificient award winning winery Peninsula Ridge Winery. Next stop is a visit to the prettiest winery in Ontario, Vineland Estates, for a private wine tasting followed by a three course gourmet lunch on their deck overlooking rolling vineyards and Lake Ontario far below. Final stop is at Tawse Winery, one of the most exclusive wineries in Niagara, for a tasting of their premium wines. Final stop is at Flat Rock Cellars, another beautiful award winning winery for a cheese and wine tasting before being transferred home.

Suitable for large groups of 50 to 200, includes transfer to Niagara-On-The-Lake in executive coaches and visits to two or three large world-class wineries with a tour of one and private wine tastings at each. Wineries visited may include Chateau des Charmes, Hillebrand Estates, Peller Estates, Jackson-Triggs Winery and Inniskillin.
Enjoy a wonderful outdoor barbecue and buffet in a pavilion at Queenston Heights on top of the Niagara Escarpment with magnificient views of the Niagara River and wine country far below. Play baseball, climb the General Brock Monument, or just enjoy the beautiful park setting.
A memorable employee event!

Price: from $95.00 per person

Other unique, custom events combining Shaw Festival tickets, a scavenger hunt on foot or bicycle and various Niagara Falls attraction packages are also available.

Please call one of our event coordinators at 1 800-680-7006 or email us at winetours@idirect.com to discuss a custom package for a visit to Niagara.