08 Mar 2025
Tldr - Book this experience as soon as you know you will be in Adelaide and want to have an incredible time tailored exactly to your tastes.
We arrived via a cruise and had a tour booked for Saturday to Barossa Valley. We happened to come in a day earlier than planned and Bob was gracious enough to accommodate us last minute for a half day tour. He gave us recommendations based on our preferences and knowing that we were already touring Barossa he suggested we take the half day and spend it in the Adelaide hills. We took his recommendations on the wineries and even though it was last minute he had everything planned out on the day. We spent a lovely day in Adelaide Hills with Bob providing us information about the local sites and taking a few detours to let us see as much as we could in a short time.
We were able to get in 3 wineries, a brief stop in Hahndorf, and some site seeing from the car before returning to the ship.
Day 2 was even more incredible. Bob had planned the morning with some bookings including a private experience with a boutique winemaker who took us through his winemaking process before a tasting. It was so fun to start the day hearing directly from the winemakers mouth vs most cellar door experiences with the standard staff.
It's clear Bob is well known and respected by many of the cellar doors and that helped improve each one of our experiences.
Our preference was to experience a variety of wineries from small boutique to bigger names and Bob absolutely nailed it on the recommendations he provided. He planned the morning ahead of time and then took our feedback to pick out the afternoon.
The car we rode in was comfortable and immaculate. He was well prepared with chilled water and a cooler in the back to protect our purchased wine in the summer heat.
Bob answered all of our questions and was truly genuine in sharing his love of Adelaide and his local wine country.
We would book him again in a heartbeat if we return to the region in the future and would highly recommend you do the same.