Mendoza Wine Tour Prices: What You Actually Get at Each Price
What Mendoza wine tours cost in 2026, from $27 to $450 — and what each tier really includes. Live prices from 70 bookable tours, with the hidden costs named.
Mendoza wine tours run from $27 to $450, which sounds like a quality ladder and mostly is not. Across that whole range you are drinking broadly comparable Malbec. What changes is the drive, the group size, the meal, and — at the very top — whether the wine is even in the price.
Here is what each tier buys, using live prices from the seventy bookable tours in the Mendoza catalogue.
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$27–$43: the shared afternoon
This is where most visitors land, and it is genuinely good value rather than a compromise.
At $27 you can book a single winery tour and tasting — a bodega visit, no transport. At $32 the Route 60 Maipú tour takes you to three cellars and an olive oil mill, pours nine glasses, and includes every entry fee and a round-trip transfer. (our breakdown →) At $34 you get the same shape from the most-booked tour in the province, with 1,300 reviews behind it. At $43 a half-day with enologist guides covers two cellars in Luján de Cuyo or Maipú.
What is included: transport, hotel pickup, all entry fees, all tastings, an English-speaking guide.
What is not: lunch. These are afternoon tours — out at 2pm, back at 8pm — and one operator states plainly in its own listing that you should eat before boarding. The olive oil tasting is the only food.
The hidden cost: the pickup loop. Collecting ten guests from ten hotels takes about 45 minutes, and whoever boards first sits through all of it, twice.
$125–$143: the full day, with a meal
Crossing into three figures buys three things at once, and only one of them is food.
The meal — three courses or a multi-course menu at a working winery, each course paired. The pace — two cellars instead of four, because the table takes two hours. And the reach — a morning departure can get to Luján de Cuyo or even the Uco Valley and still be back by six, which a 2pm departure structurally cannot.
At $125 the full-day tour lets you choose your region and serves a three-course paired lunch at a named estate, with a Salentein vineyard picnic as an alternative option. (our breakdown →) At $130 the semi-private day gives you your own guide-driver and deletes the pickup loop. At $143 the wine-and-bike day swaps a third cellar for a ride beside a reservoir in the Andes — and is the one tour here where lunch is genuinely not included.
$210–$246: private, or premium and named
Two different things happen in this band, and they are worth separating.
Private ($210) buys the vehicle rather than the seat — literally, because that price is per group of up to three, not per person. Three cellars across Luján and Maipú, your own guide, no fixed itinerary, no collection loop. For a couple that is $105 each and for three it is $70 each, against $125 per person for the shared full-day tour with lunch.
Premium named ($246) buys certainty. The Luján de Cuyo premium day publishes its three estates before you book — Achaval-Ferrer, Pulmary and Finca La Anita — runs small groups, serves a gourmet paired lunch, and includes every fee and tax with nothing collected on the day. (our breakdown →)
That last clause matters more than it reads, for the reason in the next section.
$375–$450: the top, where you must read the exclusions
At the top of the Mendoza market, two similar prices can mean very different totals, and this is the single most useful thing on this page.
The private Uco Valley sommelier day is $375 per group of up to four, and what that buys is the day: a private car, a certified sommelier for nine hours, photographs and a bottle of sparkling wine at the scenic stops. The winery visit and tasting fees are paid directly at each cellar, and lunch is ordered à la carte. (our breakdown →)
The private Zuccardi Piedra Infinita day is $450, and that includes the executive transfer, the private guided visit, the premium tasting and a four-to-nine-course paired menu at the winery’s restaurant.
Neither is hiding anything — both state it clearly. But compare the headline numbers alone and you will be wrong by a hundred dollars or more. And note that the $246 Luján day is fully inclusive at a little over half the top price.
The cheapest thing that is not what it looks like
The lowest price in the whole Mendoza catalogue is $23, for self-guided bike hire in the Luján de Cuyo wine region. It includes a bike, a helmet and a paper map. It does not include a single tasting — you pay every cellar at the door.
We do not use it as this site’s price floor for that reason. Our stated floor is $27, the cheapest listing that actually pours wine. If you see a Mendoza wine tour advertised near $20, check whether the wine is in it.
What we would book
For value, the $32 Maipú afternoon — and eat lunch first. For one well-fed day, the $130 semi-private. For a group of three or more, the $210 private, which is $70 a head because it is priced per group. For a specific estate, the $246 named premium day, which is also the last price point where nothing at all is collected on the day.
Which one fits your trip is worked through properly in which Mendoza wine tour is right for you.
Nine Tastings, Three Bodegas, One Afternoon
Join 1,300+ guests who rated our top pick 4.7/5. Three Maipú wineries and an olive oil mill, every tasting and entry fee included, hotel pickup, and a driver for the road back. Free cancellation.
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