South Coast Wine Tours.Sun, Sea and Shiraz.
Private South Coast wine tours pairing boutique wine, craft beer, lawn bowls and a coastal tapas lunch, with pickup from Berry, Gerringong, Nowra, Wollongong or Sydney. From $199 per person for groups of 20 to 200, with tastings, food, bowls, transport and a local guide included.
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The most underrated wine country in NSW.
South Coast wine tours cover one of the most understated wine regions in the state: the Shoalhaven Coast, around two hours south of Sydney, where the vineyards run almost to the sand. Berry, Gerringong, Shoalhaven Heads and Kiama pack boutique cellar doors, craft breweries, headland views and some of the best beaches in NSW into one compact, ridiculously scenic strip.
Here is the honest bit, and the reason our South Coast day looks different to our Hunter Valley wine tours. This region does not have a long list of wineries that can genuinely host a group. After years of running this coastline, we stopped pretending otherwise and engineered one signature day that actually works: a boutique winery with a proper seated tasting, a craft brewery we would drink at on our day off, lawn bowls on the coast, and a wine and tapas session at an oasis with ocean views. Every venue on the run welcomes groups, every tasting is pre-arranged and included, and the day flows.
Prefer to hand-pick your own venues? No worries at all. Book one of our private charters instead, you organise the cellar doors and tastings, we handle the luxury bus, the driver and the logistics. Either way you travel with the crew that knows this coast better than anyone.
Hens party, milestone birthday, corporate day out or a couples weekend? Check the live tour and prices, or email Jared and your itinerary lands within 24 hours.
The signature day includes
- Boutique winery tasting with cheese and produce platters
- Stoic Brewing, beer paddle or 2 wines, your choice
- Lawn bowls with mountain and ocean views
- Wine and tapas feast at a coastal oasis, bottles to share
- All tasting fees and venue bookings included
- Door-to-door pickup, Berry to Sydney
From $199 per person
- Groups of 20 to 200 get the best rate
- Runs for groups of 4 to 200
- About 7 hours door to door
- Private bookings only, your bus, your crew
- View the live tour and prices →
Wine, Beer & Lawn Bowls.
This is the day we recommend to every group heading south, because it is the one we perfected. The ultimate coastal escape: boutique wine, craft beer, barefoot bowls and a long social lunch by the ocean, with every venue booking and every tasting fee handled before you step on the bus.
Boutique winery tasting
A proper seated tasting of local Shoalhaven Coast wines, with gourmet cheese and produce platters at the winery. All tasting fees included.
Stoic Brewing, Gerringong
Our favourite brewery on the South Coast. Take a craft beer tasting paddle, or swap it for 2 wines by the glass. Mix and match across your group, all fees included.
Lawn bowls with epic views
A bowls session with mountain and ocean views, all equipment provided, no skill required. Quintessentially Australian and brilliant for groups. Drinks here at your own expense.
Coastal oasis wine and tapas
Share-style tasting with ocean views: bottles of wine for the table (at least 3 different drops), karaage chicken, arancini, dumplings, salt and pepper squid and chips. Dietaries catered.
Pickup included from Berry, Gerringong, Nowra, Wollongong or Sydney, in your own private luxury vehicle with a legendary local guide. Want a bigger lunch? Bao buns, spring rolls and epic cocktails are available on the day at your own expense.
This tour runs as designed: it is the itinerary that gets groups into enough quality venues on this coastline, every time. It can be tailored into a half day, and dietary menus are shared after deposit. Strictly zero tolerance for BYO or drug use on all tours.
- $200 deposit to secure your requested date
- Final passenger numbers due 1 to 2 weeks before the tour
- Availability is confirmed after your booking request
- Live product code PCCCCV
Stoic Brewing, Gerringong.
Ten years of running tours up and down this coast and Stoic Brewing is still our favourite brewery on the South Coast, hands down. An independent craft brewery in Gerringong pouring the kind of beers that convert wine drinkers, with a relaxed, welcoming taproom that genuinely loves hosting groups.
It is the brewery stop on our signature tour for a reason. Beer lovers grab a tasting paddle and work through the range, wine loyalists swap it for two wines by the glass, and everyone leaves planning their next visit. Supporting independent local venues like Stoic is the whole point of touring this region, drink where the locals drink. Check them out at stoicbrewing.com.au.
Want Stoic on your own itinerary? It is a favourite request on our DIY charter days and our Wollongong brewery tours too.
South Coast wine tours, town by town.
One coastline, four gateways. Wherever we collect you, the day runs the same way: door to door, every booking made, every tasting fee already paid.
Berry wine tours
Berry is the prettiest front door on this coast and one of our most requested pickups. From the main street you are about fifteen minutes from the Shoalhaven Heads cellar doors and half an hour from Gerringong, so a Berry start buys you more time in venues and less time on the highway.
Plenty of Berry groups make a weekend of it. We collect from homes, pubs and holiday houses in and around town, run the full day, and have you back before dinner.
Shoalhaven wine tours
The Shoalhaven is the wine engine of the region. Shoalhaven Heads is where the cellar doors and the seated wine tasting sit, looking out over the river flats to Coolangatta Mountain, and it is the reason the signature day heads south rather than inland.
Nowra pickups run on the same schedule. If your group is spread between Nowra, Berry and the Heads, we will build the run around it rather than make everyone drive to one point.
Wine tours from Wollongong
Wollongong is the easiest big-group start on the coast. You are roughly forty minutes from Gerringong and a touch over an hour from the Shoalhaven, which makes a full day of wine tasting near Wollongong genuinely comfortable rather than a route march.
Wollongong groups often bolt on a distillery or brewery stop on the way home. If beer is more your thing than shiraz, our Wollongong brewery tours run the same door-to-door way.
Gerringong and Kiama
Gerringong is the heart of it. The brewery, the bowlo and the long ocean-view lunch all sit within a few minutes of each other, which is exactly why the signature day is built around this stretch.
Kiama pickups add about ten minutes and nothing else changes. Local groups get the shortest transfers on the coast and the most time at the table.
Coming from further afield? Sydney pickups are included on the signature tour, and we run Southern Highlands wine tours and Hunter Valley wine tours as well. See all NSW winery tours.
The South Coast wineries and venues we work with.
Stoic is above for a reason, but it is not the whole bench. These are the wineries, cellar doors, kitchens and bowlos we are proud to send groups to, from Gerringong and Kiama through to Berry and the Shoalhaven. Which ones land on your day depends on your group size, your date and who has room.
Coolangatta Estate
Historic Shoalhaven Heads winery with a cellar door, restaurant and sweeping grounds. Built for long lunches and bigger groups, and the classic South Coast wine tasting stop.
Visit Coolangatta Estate → GerringongStoic Brewing
One of our favourite venues on the South Coast, hands down. An independent Gerringong craft brewery pouring the kind of beers that convert wine drinkers, with a relaxed taproom that loves hosting groups.
Visit Stoic Brewing → GerringongThe Hill Bar and Kitchen
An easy going Gerringong bar and kitchen doing hearty share plates and cold drinks. The perfect midday refuel between tastings, and a favourite lunch stop on the coast.
Visit The Hill → GerringongThe Noble Gerringong
Stylish Gerringong restaurant and bar putting local produce front and centre. A relaxed sit-down lunch that keeps a big day flowing.
Visit The Noble → Werri BeachGerringong Bowlo
Barefoot bowls with an ocean breeze at Werri Beach. Social, easy and a guaranteed laugh, the ideal way to break up a day on the coast.
Visit Gerringong Bowlo → WollongongSouth Coast Distillery
Wollongong distillery crafting small-batch gin and spirits. A cracking tasting stop to kick off or wind down a South Coast day.
Visit South Coast Distillery →For South Coast venues
Run a South Coast winery, brewery, restaurant or bowlo?
We bring premium groups down the coast every week and we love championing the places that look after them. If you would like to be featured here and have us send warm, well-organised groups your way, get in touch.
Get in touch about a partnership →Book the signature package, or DIY with a charter.
An honest fork in the road. The signature tour is the one itinerary we know fills a day with venues that genuinely welcome groups on this coastline, so it runs as designed. If you would rather hand-pick your own venues, a private charter is the right tool: you organise the cellar doors and pay your own tastings, we deliver the bus, the driver and a flawless day on the road.
The Signature Package
- Every venue pre-booked by us, through relationships built over years on this coast
- All tasting fees included, wine, beer and the tapas session, one per-person price
- A legendary local guide hosts the whole day
- The only reliable way to get a group into 4 quality South Coast venues in one day
- Expectations met, every time, it is why we built it
- From $199 per person, live calendar online
DIY Private Charter
- Total freedom, your venues, your timings, your day
- You organise the venues and book each cellar door yourself
- You pay tastings directly at each venue on the day
- We supply the luxury bus and driver, door to door, priced per vehicle not per head
- Great for locals who know exactly where they want to go
- Quoted within 24 hours, guaranteed
Your South Coast ride, 14 to 57 seats.
Every signature tour and every DIY charter rolls on our own NSW fleet. Saturday is the big day for Berry and Gerringong runs, full-day Saturday charters to this region start from the rates below, with all distance included.
14-Seater Sprinter VIP
Mercedes Sprinter with reclining seats, Bluetooth and climate control. The right size for an intimate tasting crew.
18-Seater Sprinter Luxury
The party bus: leather seats, upgraded sound with subwoofer and remote-controlled LED party lighting. Hens parties book this one.
27-Seater Yutong D7 Executive
2024 model with premium bucket seats, woodgrain floors, USB chargers at every seat, Bluetooth and climate control.
41-Seater Luxury Coach
Leather reclining seats, woodgrain floors, USB chargers and underfloor luggage storage. Big-group comfort all the way down the coast.
Saturday rates above are full-day minimums for the Berry, Gerringong and Shoalhaven region with all distance included, the bus is yours depot to depot. Weekday and Sunday charters are quoted to your exact run, usually for less. Groups over 41? We combine vehicles up to 100+ guests. Email Jared for your exact price, itinerary and quote within 24 hours, guaranteed. More on charters: Wollongong bus hire and NSW bus hire and charter.
Optional add-ons.
Legends picnic platters
Beautifully presented, authentic, locally made gourmet platters, the same ones our guests rave about at the winery stop. Add extras for the bus or the beach.
Epic picnic on Seven Mile Beach
We know the best spots. Choose a delivered platter, bring your own, or go full luxury with a pop-up picnic fully set up and packed down by the talented Picnic By The Sea team.
Cocktails and dessert
Finish the day with a Legends epic cocktail at the coastal oasis, or add dessert to your lunch. Ask when booking and we will build it into the run sheet.
Taste it, love it, buy a bottle.
Our motto is Tours Tailored By Legends, For Legends, and that includes the legends pouring your wine. The cellar doors of the Shoalhaven Coast are mostly small and family run, and they make their living from, you guessed it, selling wine. A big group tasting through the range leaves a winery at a loss, even with tasting fees paid.
So here is the deal: taste their delicious wine, then buy a bottle of whichever one wins you over. Skip the Yellow Tail from the bottle shop this week and take home a refreshing Chardonnay or a full bodied Shiraz that came straight from the source and the maker. Drink it, savour it, and know it kept a South Coast winemaker doing what they love.
Go on, be a Legend.
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Explore the Highlands →All NSW Winery Tours
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See the breweries →Hens Party Tours
Planning a hens? Our party-ready buses, packages and playlists were built for exactly this.
Plan the hens →Wollongong Bus Hire & Charter
Private buses with driver for any Illawarra or South Coast run, weddings, corporate days and DIY tours.
Charter options →Premium modern fleet
Owned, late-model luxury vehicles from 14 to 57 seats, immaculate every time.
Drivers who know the coast
Professional, punctual crews who know Berry and Gerringong like their own backyard.
10 years of legendary days
Creating epic days out across NSW since 2016, 221 Google reviews at 4.8 stars.
Good Vibes Only
Guaranteed. It is on the bus, it is in the motto, it is how we run every tour.
Your South Coast wine tour starts here.
Book the signature Wine, Beer and Lawn Bowls day straight off the live calendar, or email Jared for a DIY charter quote. Itinerary within 24 hours, guaranteed.
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