Hot Air Ballooning Melbourne & Winery Tour

Experience Code: BA332

Description

Set your sights high with a hot-air ballooning sunrise flight and succumb to your senses with a Yarra Valley winery tour. After flying over Melbourne you will alight for a buffet breakfast and a glass of sparkling wine. This is followed with a winery tour and lunch in the beautiful Yarra Valley!

On the day of your experience we will pick you up from the Melbourne CBD half an hour before sunrise. You will be advised of the exact time the evening before your flight.

Your pilot will give you a short briefing and you will be then transported to the launch site where you may choose to help with the launch or stand back and take pictures! Once all passengers are in the basket of the hot-air balloon we take off! You’ll be drifting gently over the beautiful city of Melbourne, looking down upon the sunrise-soaked landscape from the basket of a hot-air balloon! After your 60-minute flight you’ll enjoy a full buffet breakfast, complimented by a glass of sparkling wine.

But the day is far from over! Your winery tour is just about to begin!

After your balloon flight and breakfast we take you to Yering Station where your tour guide will teach you the finer points of wine tasting so that you can swirl, sniff and slurp your way through the afternoon and get the most out of your wine tasting experience. Then the enthusiastic and knowledgeable cellar door staff will take you through their range of benchmark award-winning wines.

The next stop is Rochford’s Winery. Your lunch is prepared while the staff share some of their favourite wines with you. Sit down to a delicious meal accompanied by a glass of wine, tea/coffee and bread. Enjoy the view while you eat!

After lunch you visit Yering Farm, a small, family-owned boutique winery. Yering Farm uses traditional wine-making methods and offers a pioneering Australian ambience in the cellar door, which has a fascinating display of antique wine-making tools.

Last stop for the day is Domaine Chandon – home to the Australian operation of French champagne company Moet et Chandon. You will tour the winery and learn how sparkling wine is made. After this you will enjoy a glass of sparkling wine and some tasty platters of cheese, relish and crusty breads!

Venue:

Meet in East Melbourne, Victoria – approximately 5 minutes east of the Melbourne CBD.

Valid For:

1 person

Availability & Duration:

Flights and tours operate daily and are subject to weather and availability. However we are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. Bookings are essential. The duration of your flight will be 60 minutes and the total experience runs from an hour before sunrise to approximately 5pm.

Guidelines:

You must be 18 years of age or older to participate in this experience. You must also be able to stand in the basket of the hot-air balloon for the 60-minute duration of the flight. Please note: Amendment fees will apply if winery tour is rescheduled within 24 hours of departure date.

Numbers:

The price quoted is for one person. You will be in a group of between 10 and 30 people on the day.

Weather:

This experience may be affected by the weather. If your balloon flight is cancelled your winery tour will proceed and you are advised to contact us to arrange an alternate pick-up location. We will then reschedule your balloon flight for another day.