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It's not just about the juice... it's about the lifestyle!

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The essence of the wine comes from the terroir... the heart from the winemaker.

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Unique and Boutique: Discover the Wine Road Less Traveled

Looking for fantastic, quiet, secluded boutique wineries, special experiences or wine education to crown your day in the wine country? We’ve got 100’s of options for your tour from regular tastings to high end VIP tastings and winemaker one-on-ones.

We can hook up unique and boutique for any budget.

Here are just a few of the best wine experiences around. Santa Barbara to Paso Robles… The Elite Wine Tour Experience!

Scenic Backroads

Avoid the crowd

Barrel Tasting with the winemaker!

Get the inside story behind the wine

Beautiful Estates and Wineries

Small production wineries to national brands

Unique and Boutique

Unforgetable wine experiences

Scenic Backroads

Avoid the crowd

Barrel Tasting with the winemaker!

Get the inside story behind the wine

Beautiful Estates and Wineries

Small production wineries to national brands

Unique and Boutique

Unforgetable wine experiences

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Experiences

472

Wineries (SB to Paso)

Wine Tour Years of Experience

6785

Satisfied Customers

Mix and match Diamond, VIP, and Elite experiences to enhance your tour, and discover wine enjoyment like you never imagined!

All tours are tailored to your wine preferences, but feel free to use my encyclopedic knowledge of SLO and SB County wines and wineries gathered over 14 years and 1,500+ wine tours.

Allow us the opportunity to enhance your wine tasting experience… Inquire today!

Inside the Unique and Boutique: Knowledge Is Power

We’ve been at this for over 14+ years and over 1,500 wine tours. We’ve steadily built great wine experiences by forging relationships with the people behind the wine. We can hook up stellar unique and boutique for any budget. One thing we don’t do is milk runs- stamping out the same wine tour day after day. We listen to what you like, and build a fantastic day for you using our vast knowledge and winery relationships.

There are hundreds of tour possibilities. Here are the basics to putting together your perfect tour.

Mix and match Diamond, VIP, and Elite experiences to enhance your tour, and discover wine enjoyment like you never imagined!

All tours are tailored to your wine preferences, but feel free to use my encyclopedic knowledge of SLO and SB County wines and wineries gathered over 14+ years and 1,500+ wine tours.

Diamond, VIP, and Elite are my simple way of expressing tour possibilities from a basic Diamond level stand-at-the-bar tasting experience- to unique VIP or Elite upgrades.

Wine Tour Information

Let’s talk about your wine tour!

This is How We Roll…

FIVE DOOR 8-PASSENGER LIMO

Raising the Bar for Passenger Safety and Comfort

The fifth door makes passenger exit or entry super easy for passengers at the front of the vehicle

2018 CA limo law requires additional ways to escape the limo should an accident occur. Limo has been retrofitted above and beyond the recent CA limo safety law, and is inspected regularly by the CHP. With two push-out side windows and an escape hatch on the roof, plus the fifth door, my limo is the safest in the region

Raised Roof- 3.5-inches has been added to the roof for lots more interior space volume. Easier to move around inside- way more open than limos with standard roof line

Large cut out between passenger space and driver make it easy to converse, and hear info and history as we roll down the road

LATE MODEL YUKON XL SUV

Holds 6 Passengers Comfortably with Lots of Storage Room in Back

3 rows of seating- 6 or 7 plus driver
This SUV is kept in pristine condition inside and out- never used as the family-hauler when not working
It’s used exclusively for commercial transportation

I plan, coordinate and drive every tour myself. We do all types of ground transportation- our Class A permit allows us to work anywhere in California.

We carry $1.5 million A+ rated commercial insurance. We are CA Public Utilities TCP (Transportation Charter Party) compliant, subject to regular drug and alcohol testing, and regularly inspected by the California Highway Patrol- TCP number 35785-A.

Happy to help with any touring or transportation need or question- so please give us a call.

Read about my limo exploits driving the renowned on the Central Coast: Tales of a Central Coast Limo Driver

JZ “The Wine Tour Guy”

John Ziegler – Host and wine tour “Rocket Scientist”

Since 2005 I’ve been actively doing wine tours in SB and SLO Counties, and have done over 1,500 wine tours on the Central Coast. Being a first-call limo driver for high end boutique hotels like Santa Ynez Inn, Fess Parker Wine Country Inn, Hadsten House, Hotel Corque, Four Seasons Biltmore, and Bacara for many years kept my service skills well honed. I’ve done well over 500 wine tours in Santa Barbara County alone. My reputation has developed around planning high end wine tours with savvy, serious about wine clientele, plus my skills at delivering great wine experiences on the fly. Gradually my focus began to shift to small production, high quality boutique wineries. In 2009 I started freelancing my own tours as JZ Wine Tour Guy. This was at the midpoint of a 10-year staff writing gig with Pacific Coast Sportfishing Magazine, Newport Beach CA. Technical writing at a manufacturing company in Paso Robles brought me to North San Luis Obispo County in 2011. I immediately fell back into the limo thing after running into a winemaker friend who recommended me to a local transportation company. (More Information)