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Meander through backroads to taste outstanding wines
✔️Explore over 100 wines at four venues
Rustic cellar doors of family-run vineyards and wineries✔️Shared lunch platter of local produce
Fresh made cheeses, condiments, cured meats, crackers, bread, fruit, pickled vegetables.✔️Nestled in nature
Next to the Porongurup National Park, travel through farmland on backroads to spectacular wine✔️Relaxed journey
Comfort and safety of our touring vehicle with tour guide and attentive service.✔️Authentic, local Tour Guide
Commentary from a local, passionate about our region.✔️Courtesy pick-up and return to accommodation
Let us know when you book if your accommodation is within 3km of CBD. We’ll pick you up and return you at the end of the day.
Full day tour to four wineries in the Mt Barker sub-region of the Great Southern Wine Appellation. Meet the families who own the properties, make the wine and serve you at the cellar door. The Great Southern is known for Rieslings; be surprised by a Shiraz! Enjoy a delicious local produce shared platter lunch at award-winning Plantagenet Wines. Meander through backroads. Taste outstanding wines from wineries of the Mt Barker sub-region, grown in cool climate and nestled in nature.
Your Albany Tours guide will take care of the skipper duties, whilst you take pleasure in tastings.
This region has a characteristically cool climate with slow ripening times which allows for the development of rich flavours and quality grape juice. Wine tasting begins at Gilbert Wines, home to the ‘lads’ and where a morning coffee might be preferred. At Plantagenet wines you are taken to the tasting bench to choose your wine and make your purchase to accompany a scrumptious shared platter lunch of local produce. Onwards the tour will take you to Galafrey Wines another family-owned winery and home to prominent female wine-maker Kim Tyrer. From there to West Cape Howe where you can sample wine from their extensive range, olive oil or their own brand of coffee! Our Albany Tour guide will take care of the skipper duties, whilst you relax and enjoy the scenery and the sensational flavours of the region.
Includes
- Courtesy pick-up and return to accommodation 3km CBD
- Albany Tours local expertise and quality service
- Tastings of wine at four cellar doors
- Lunch platter of cheese, cold meat, fruit, pickled vegetables, condiments
- Meander through backroads of Mt Barker
Departures Fri-Mon 9.30am – 4.00pm
Magical and memorable
What one guest had to say of this 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ experience.A fantastic day! Small group. Visited 4 wineries for tastings – all quite different. A good introduction to the region. Susan our guide was very knowledgeable about the region, the wineries and the wines. Also included a lovely shared platter lunch. Highly recommended.
Guests are asked to bring their own water in a recyclable container. Please help us reduce single use plastic in our pristine environment.
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Lunch was a delicious. Platter of local food.
The afternoon Gap tour was exhilarating with views n afternoon tea. Tim was very informative n Nadine was very caring, watching our step all the time n filling us with details of the places of interest. Appreciative of the step up n off the bus. Thank you for curating the tours
A very worthwhile tour!
Our last stop was the wind turbines- again we had a great guide who was able to share some great insights.
If you want to see a bit of the local area in a small group setting with great photo opportunities, this is a great choice- so much more enjoyable and cost saving compared to the similar cruise ship tour.
We were picked up and taken early and had a very enjoyable and knowledgable journey to the bay.
It started as a slightly grey and quiet day but that changed quickly. The sun came out and so did the whales.
They tour guides were amazing and knew all the whales names ages and spotted them really early (which i know is unpredictable) and followed them all day with multiple sighting of single males, groups and babies! (I’m not
good at catching them on camera though)
I would recommend this to anyone. Although if you are prone to sickness a warning to get tablets - we luckily were ok but it nearly was a very expensive sleep for my husband - and we were lucky it was a calmer day (which is still pretty choppy)
Then picked up and dropped home - thank you so much for a great experience
It seems I was called an hour before the tour was supposed to start, but no message was left, so I didn’t think it required an urgent callback when I missed it. Moreover, there was no follow-up email or text to inform me that the tour had been cancelled, so I went to the meeting place as expected and waited around 15 minutes before I realised that no guide was showing up.
I then received an email over an hour after the tour was scheduled to start saying that the tour had been cancelled and my ticket refunded [I've attached a screenshot].
Cancelling a tour ONE HOUR before it is scheduled to start and then not informing me is really appalling customer service.
We were met at the port by a representative who directed us to a meeting point and that we would find Michele our guide.
We have done many tours around the world. This was by far the best tour ever. Michele was very informative and new a lot about the wineries were to visit. She had everything well organized. She kept us on schedule because we had to catch our ship.
If you are ever in Albany, I would highly recommend Albany Tours for a wine tour and request Michele as your guide and driver. Excellent tour.
Worth doing. Thank you.
You need to book your accommodation well in advance because Tourism has become a large contributor to the economy there. Having said all this is it worth it?? Absolutely yes on so many levels. It is quite a large town with a great history. The people are welcoming and the food is amazing. The scenery is excellent.. many beautiful beaches (Middleton Beach has so much to offer), great landscapes and an easy drive to The Gap and Natural Bridge.
We continued down to Esperance after 3 nights in the Albany area but, that's another story and must do for so many reasons.
South west Western Australia has so much to offer beyond the Margaret River region. Australia is so vast and remote areas may not be as appealing for very young families due to the tyranny of distance but for those of you that are willing, it's worth it and airlines are starting to pick up on this.
half day trip that saw us visit a number of sights with the highlight being The Gap. Ducked into some little beaches, squeezed in a few leisurely little walks, took in some amazing views, even had time for morning tea. Packed in a whole lot in a short time but never felt rushed. Phillip was a wonderful guide too , friendly, caring and very knowledgeable.
That’s three great trips with The Busy Blue Bus.
Thank you to Susan and her team.
right at the top. The skywalk is amazing and well worth the effort to make it up the hill.
Lunch at the winery afterwards was a nice touch and Tim took the time over lunch to show me other worthwhile walks in the area.
Thank you Tim and thank you Busy Blue Bus.
It was a memorable day, but also long and tiring so we were grateful that we could sit back and relax.
Susan was punctual and professional and drove in a safe manner. She is also very well organised, and displays a caring nature.
Susan took care of our booking for this and two other trips and the process was hassle free. We can’t thank Susan enough for helping us enjoy a day that we will long remember and
we have no hesitation in recommending The Busy Blue Bus to other visitors to Albany.
Big Blue was fantastic to deal with through out the whole thing and refunded our funds. We plan to get back to Albany and we will definitely use their services.
Unfortunately, the wind was too strong for us to dock in Albany and our cruise ship captain had to cancel our visit.
Unlike the policy of the vast majority of tour operators Busy Blue Bus have refused to refund the AU$215 we had paid for the tour as we did not give 48 hours notice of cancellation. 48 hours before the weather changed and 48 hours before the captain had to make his decision.
Buyer beware!






































