Colonia del Sacramento Wine Tours and Winery Visits

Rural winery with three wines and a food board

The rural experience has a listed programme length of five and a half hours. Hosts welcome visitors, lead a vineyard tour and explain the family history and winemaking process. The tasting includes a rosé, an oak-aged Tannat and a Tannat-Merlot blend. A generous board brings together cheeses, cured meats, breads, dips and regional products, with a sweet option and non-alcoholic drinks also included.

Return transportation from Colonia is part of the option that includes it. Otherwise the experience starts at the winery and arrival is arranged independently. Personal purchases and takeaway wine are additional. Choose this package for the host-led rural visit and the food tasting, with the journey matched to the actual option selected.

Private Carmelo excursion with a tasting board

The private Carmelo visit lists three and a half hours and includes round-trip transportation from Colonia del Sacramento, a professional driver and a vehicle licensed for tourist transport. Pickup is at selected accommodation or the port of Colonia by prior arrangement. The programme combines a guided vineyard visit with an introduction to the winery's history and winemaking process.

There are visits to the cellar and labelling room, followed by three wines and a cheese and charcuterie board. Lunch is separate. This is the relevant choice when the tasting and winery spaces are the main purpose of the excursion, without building a full lunch into the visit. Keep that food distinction in mind when comparing it with the longer private package.

Private wine visit with barbecue lunch

The private winery outing with lunch lists four and a half hours. It includes the same type of private return transport from Colonia, with selected-accommodation or port pickup by prior arrangement and a professional driver. The vineyard tour covers the winery's history and wine production, with visits to the cellar and labelling room.

Alongside three wines and a cheese and charcuterie board, this version adds lunch with grilled meat and vegetables. Dessert is ice cream with Tannat sauce, and wine, soft drinks and water are served during lunch. Personal purchases and consumption beyond the included experience are additional. Choose it when the meal should be a central part of the outing rather than a separate stop after the tasting.

Transfer or independent arrival

Start the practical comparison with the actual pickup arrangement. On the rural product, the choice is pickup in Colonia with the transport option or arrival at the winery under your own arrangements. On the private Carmelo products, the included pickup is limited to selected accommodation or the port by prior arrangement. A place to stay beyond those arrangements needs its own connection planning.

Visitors arriving from Argentina should place the winery programme around the return journey, rather than treating its listed length as a ferry-day duration. The Buenos Aires day-trip guide helps with that separate decision. For an overnight visit, the accommodation-area guide explains how location affects onward planning.

Winery tariffs and package prices

Direct winery experiences and transport packages are different purchases. The separate direct programme at Los Cerros de San Juan published Classic at USD 18, Premium at USD 24, Secretos at USD 35 and Sentidos with lunch at USD 80 when accessed on 11 November 2026. Secretos and Sentidos require advance reservations, and Secretos requires at least two people. Arrange a visit time for the specific direct experience.

Those are that winery's own tariffs, rather than prices for the three packages compared here, which visit their respective wineries. Starting prices recorded in November 2026 for the selected packages were USD 162 per person for the rural experience, USD 191 per person for the private Carmelo tasting and USD 230 per person for the private outing with barbecue lunch. The rural price must be read alongside its transport option.

A city tasting or a winery outing?

Decide whether the vineyard and production spaces are essential to the day. The rural and Carmelo programmes make those places part of the experience, so allocate them a distinct part of the visit. If the main priority is the historic quarter, use the city-walk comparison first and plan any wine activity around that choice. The photographs illustrate wine travel and do not identify a particular booked group or winery.

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