The 4 Best Heraklion Vineyard Tours

1.Matala Beach, Caves, and Winery Full-Day Tour from Heraklion

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 40 reviews · 8 hours (approx.) · from $112Our pick

Travel from Heraklion across the Messara Plain to Matala Beach in a small-group Mercedes Vito tour. Add an €11 winery tasting, swim, visit the €5 caves, and enjoy a BBQ lunch with wine and water. Drivers such as Mario and Andre provide local stories along the way.

“My tour guide Mario was great ! The food was good. A lot of wine and the beach was really beautiful. I got to really see a different side of Greece”

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2.Matala Beach – Caves & winery Full Day tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 37 reviews · 8 hours · from $110

Travel from Heraklion in an air-conditioned 4x4 Mercedes Vito to a Cretan winery, the Messara Plain, and Matala. You’ll taste local wines, swim beside the famous caves, and eat a traditional lunch with wine. Guides including Nikos, Dimitri, and Andreas have led this relaxed, well-paced day.

“War alles super, nur im Weingut hätte man mehr erklären!”

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3.PRIVATE-Winery+Olive Oil Factory-Old Villages-Old Wind Mills

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 26 reviews · 7 hours 30 minutes (approx.) · from $361

Spend 7.5 hours with a local driver-guide visiting an olive oil factory, old Cretan villages, mountain roads, vineyards, and a winery. Taste olive oil and raki, add five local wines and lunch, and enjoy a private outing with guides such as Spyros, Nikos, Ed, or Stavros.

“For all you passengers on cruise ships, this is a perfect tour to go with to be able to see & experience all of Crete in a day. The communication was great and very accommodating by helping us arrange a few of our cruise friends to all be in the same van together. Spyros, a true Cretan who knew everyone on the island was an excellent host & guide. He was informative and took us to all the local places sharing the cretan lifestyle and beautiful wineries. The Olive Oil factory was amazing! Perfect tour to see and learn all about Crete. If I could give this tour 10stars I…”

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4.Shuttle Service – Wine Tasting & Tour @ Lyrarakis Winery

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 21 reviews · from $91Best value

Travel by private air-conditioned vehicle from Heraklion to Lyrarakis Winery in Alagni. Tour the cellars and museum corner, then taste five Cretan wines beneath the pergola with rusks and olive oil. You can upgrade locally for additional wines and food.

“Wines were excellent and the local food samples to match the wines were superb. Beautiful surroundings.”

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