Provence Wine Tour from Cannes: Which of Three to Book

This is the Provence wine tour from Cannes with the best mix of price and depth: $201 per person for 8 hours, rated 4.9 from 58 reviews. The group is capped at eight guests, and you travel in an air-conditioned vehicle with an English-speaking wine guide.

You meet at 9:30 at Place Pierre Semard, the bus station next to Cannes train station; the guide waits on the station roof. The day heads into the Côtes de Provence wine region, known for its rosé. The morning is at a family-owned estate: a private tour of the cellars, then a mini-masterclass on tasting, serving wine and pairing it with food.

Lunch is on the square of a medieval village nearby; it is not in the price. The afternoon brings a second estate, run by one family for four generations, with a walk in the vines and a tasting on the terrace, then a third estate. Across the day you taste around 15 wines. The tour runs rain or shine, and the order of visits can change.

The private day costs $796 per group, up to 8 people, rated 4.9 from 34 reviews. Split four ways that is $199 each; split eight ways, $99.50. Pickup is included, and the guide speaks English, French or Italian. As a Provence wine tour from Cannes, it runs at your own pace.

The route heads into the Var towards Draguignan, with a rosé tasting on the way. One estate has belonged to the same family since the 18th century; another keeps an underground cellar the listing calls a cathedral of wine. If time allows, a third has a Romanesque chapel with works by Chagall and Giacometti. The day ends in Les Arcs-sur-Argens, a medieval village to wander at leisure.

One thing to check: the listing quotes per-person tasting and visit fees at the estates, so ask what your group price covers. You can buy wine direct from the estates.

At $135 per person, this is the lowest price of the three and the one with the most reviews: 88, rated 4.3. It runs 8 to 8.5 hours in a group limited to 8 people, with pickup and a guide speaking English or French. It is less a Provence wine tour from Cannes than a countryside day, and the one French Riviera wine tour from Cannes of the three: it stays in the hills of the Côte d’Azur, while the other two head into Provence.

It starts in Grasse, once a leather town and now the world capital of perfume, with a guided visit to a perfume factory. Next is Gourdon, the «Eagle’s Nest», 760 metres up with wide views of the coast. Then Tourrettes-sur-Loup, the «City of Violets», a medieval village of stone lanes and craft shops, where you have time on your own for lunch. On the way back you stop at a winery in the Bellet vineyard above Nice to taste local red, rosé and white wines.

Book the small-group day. If you take one Provence wine tour from Cannes, make it the $201 per person day: three estates, around 15 wines, a tasting class and a 4.9 rating.

Four or more of you? Split between four or more, the private day ($796 per group, up to 8 people) costs less a head than the small group and runs on your schedule. Here for perfume and villages? Take the Grasse day at $135 per person.

The vineyards are inland; Cannes sits on the sea. Our top pick, the full-day catamaran, costs $179 per person for 7 hours to the Lérins Islands and the Estérel coves, with two swim stops and a cold buffet lunch served with a glass of wine. Boat trips on this site start at $94 per person; compare all seven in our list of catamarans.