Private Bekaa Valley Wine Tour | 3 Wineries · Guided from Beirut

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Private Bekaa Valley Wine Tour | 3 Wineries · Guided from Beirut

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Experience Details

What You’ll Experience

Where to Meet

Reviews

Location

Beirut

Duration

8 hours

Number of Guests

1 - 9 guests

Language

English, Arabic

Other

Vegetarian, Family-friendly, Private Experience

Digital Ticket

Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Discover Lebanon's wine heritage with a guided tour from Beirut. Visit top vineyards, learn traditional methods, and savor unique wines. A perfect day for wine enthusiasts and explorers!

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10 meals

Experience Details

Lebanon has been making wine for over 6,000 years — longer than France, longer than Italy, longer than almost anywhere on earth. The Bekaa Valley, sitting at 1,000 metres above sea level between two mountain ranges, is where that ancient tradition lives today. This private guided tour from Beirut takes you to three of its most celebrated estates — Chateau Saint Thomas, Chateau Kefraya, and Chateau Ksara — for guided cellar tours and tastings that reveal the full depth and variety of what Lebanese wine can be.

Three wineries. Three completely different stories. One private day in the valley that has been producing wine since before the birth of civilisation as we know it — with a professional guide who makes every cellar, every vintage, and every glass mean something.

What You Get

Tour Leader

Hotel pickup and drop-off in Beirut

In-vehicle air conditioning

Air-conditioned vehicle

Lunch in Zahle (optional — at own expense)

Wine tasting fees at all three wineries (payable directly on site)

Gratuities (optional)

Good To Know

Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Specialized infant seats are available

What You’ll Experience

Beirut (Pass By)

9.00 AM — Departure from Beirut Your professional guide and driver collect you from your Beirut hotel and head east on the Damascus highway — climbing through the Lebanese mountains as the Bekaa Valley opens dramatically below, its vineyards and orchards stretching between two mountain ranges under the high Bekaa sun.

Chateau St Thomas

Begin at Chateau Saint Thomas — one of the Bekaa Valley's most respected family-owned estates, producing wines from vineyards sitting at over 1,000 metres altitude. The combination of high elevation, cool nights, and intense Bekaa sunshine creates growing conditions of remarkable complexity — producing wines that consistently punch above their weight on the international stage. The guided cellar tour takes you through the winemaking process from grape to bottle, and the tasting that follows showcases their acclaimed Cabernet Sauvignon, full-bodied red blends, and elegant whites that have earned medals at international competitions. A quietly impressive opening to the day — and a winery that often surprises visitors who arrive expecting something smaller.

1 hourAdmission Ticket Not Included

Chateau Kefraya

Continue to Chateau Kefraya — one of the largest and most celebrated wine estates in Lebanon, with over 300 hectares of vineyards sprawling across the Bekaa plain. Kefraya is renowned for its flagship red blend Comte de M — widely considered one of the finest wines produced in the Middle East and a wine that has earned serious critical attention from international publications. The guided tour moves through the vast cellars and barrel rooms before a structured tasting that showcases the estate's full range — from the powerful Comte de M to the aromatic whites and the celebrated Muse rosé. For wine lovers, this is the Bekaa Valley at its most impressive.

1 hourAdmission Ticket Not Included

Chateau Ksara

The final winery is Chateau Ksara — the oldest and most storied in Lebanon, founded by Jesuit monks in 1857 and now the country's largest wine producer. The highlight here is unlike anything at the previous two estates — an extraordinary Roman cave cellar system stretching 2 kilometres beneath the winery, discovered by the Jesuits in the late 19th century and used ever since to age wine at a naturally constant temperature year-round. Walking through these ancient tunnels after a full day of Bekaa wine is one of the most memorable cellar experiences in the entire wine world — part archaeology, part sensory experience, entirely Lebanese. The tasting showcases Ksara's iconic Cabernet-Syrah blends, crisp Blanc de Blancs, and beloved Sunset Rosé to close a day that has taken you through three very different expressions of what the Bekaa can produce.

1 hourAdmission Ticket Not Included

Zahle

Lunch in Zahle — the Bride of the Bekaa End the day in Zahle — Lebanon's most celebrated food and wine destination, known as the Bride of the Bekaa. The famous restaurant terraces along the Bardawni River serve some of the finest Lebanese mezze in the country — generous spreads of cold and hot dishes, grilled meats, fresh bread, and local wine with the cool Bekaa mountain air and the sound of the river below. After three cellar tours and three tastings, lunch in Zahle is the only way the day should end.

1 hourAdmission Ticket Free

Beirut (Pass By)

Return to Beirut — approx. 5:30–6:00 PM Scenic drive back over the Lebanese mountains with drop-off at your Beirut hotel — completing a full day through three of the Bekaa Valley's finest wine estates and one of the world's oldest wine-producing regions.

Meeting & Pickup

Pickup Point

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Pickup Details

We pick up travellers from destinations near Beirut city centre.

Cancellation Policy
Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund.
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Reviews

5.0

based on 6 reviews

(TripAdvisor)

long live Lebanon

June 17, 2025

it was perfect parting moving from city to the mountain perfect weather lovely people love to live and cheer the Lebanese experience with the others good food

(TripAdvisor)

Couldn’t Be Bettered!

May 24, 2022

We wanted to try some Lebanese wines and we weren’t disappointed! The tour company went out of their way to arrange some fantastic tastings with a range of Lebanese wine producers ranging from well...read more

(TripAdvisor)

Lebanon Tours - exceeding expectations!

May 23, 2022

Lebanon Tours were first class from pick up at airport to deliver back, one week later. Hussein Abdullah, the manager, provided efficient and clear email correspondence when arranging the tour. Onc...read more

(TripAdvisor)

Living the best life

May 22, 2022

10 of us from the UK, members of a wine club, spent a week exploring Lebanon and it’s wine with Albert as our guide. We visited many vineyards both ones we knew and new ones. We received a first cl...read more

(TripAdvisor)

Excellent guides

May 20, 2022

I have used Hussein twice now, both times I was very happy with the service and quality of drivers and guides. On tours to Baalbeck, Byblos and Tyr tour of main site was provided by actual archeol...read more

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