d'Arenberg: The Blending Bench and Degustation with Wine Pairing

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Experience Details
What You’ll Experience
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Duration
4 hours 30 minutes
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Number of Guests
1 - 6 guests
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English
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Discover d'Arenberg's Blending Bench, where you craft your own Shiraz blend. Enjoy a guided wine pairing degustation, relishing exceptional flavors and taking home your unique creation.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Visit d'Arenberg winery in McLaren Vale for the Blending Bench, a hands-on experience where you get to play winemaker. Using three barrel samples of d'Arenberg's premium shiraz, you can create a wine of your very own and bottle a 750-mililiter sample to take home with you.

What You Get

750-ml sample bottle of wine to take home
Blending Bench experience
8-course degustation with matching wines
Transportation to/from winery

Good To Know

  • Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
  • Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

What You’ll Experience

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d'Arenberg

Arrive at d'Arenberg winery for your Blending Bench experience, where a palette of wine parcels, each with distinctive flavors and textures, awaits your blending in search of balance, fullness, and finesse. The physical work is already done for you—picking, crushing, fermenting, foot treading, basket pressing, and barrel aging. You'll create a wine that is truly unique, and then bottle, name, and label a 750-ml sample to take home and show off to your friends. Following your blending session, sit down to an 8-course degustation at d’Arry’s Verandah Restaurant, overlooking the rolling hills of McLaren Vale. An homage, if you like, to the old adage "variety is the spice of life," this meal is an exceptional way to end your d'Arenberg experience. The resulting combination of flavors and textures created between the food and wine pairings will be the highlight of your time in South Australia.
1 hourAdmission Ticket Included

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Osborn Road, City of Onkaparinga South Australia, Australia, AU, 5171

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Departure Point: d'Arenberg winery Address: Osborn Road, McLaren Vale, South Australia 5171 Dates: Monday - Friday
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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A must fo in McLaren vale
March 21, 2025
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Fabulous experience, loved exploring the cube, wine tasting on the 4th floor was fantastic with amazing views. We then went to the verandah for the degustation lunch, this was an amazing meal abd t...read more

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Your next visit: d'Arenberg Cube!
January 06, 2024
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Very unique place, combining wine, art paintings, sculptures made this place absolutely fabulous! Even the toilets were unlike anything else, simply beautiful!

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Highly recommended to see this place if you’re in Adelaide.
December 13, 2023
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The atmosphere is excellent and the staff are very friendly. Top wines in the McLaren Vale. Good Lunch but may be overpriced. Definitely cheaper than some of the other wineries.we enjoyed the day t...read more

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Quirky different
March 05, 2023
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This is a seriously different approach to wineries. Interesting tasting, interesting restaurants and food. The building is quirky, exhibitions interesting with the whole place themed as eccentric. ...read more

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Go early
January 31, 2023
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A bit of a circus, we made sure to be first in line in the morning and therefore got more attention. This vinery simply attracts a b bigger audience than it can comfortably entertain. The draw is ...read more

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