2012
PREMIUM VIP TOUR SCHEDULE One of the World’s Top 10 Wine Tours! Travel & Leisure Magazine
PUBLIC
TOURS
Long Island Wine Country.COM’s "Public" tours are the most cost efficient way for experiencing our award-winning, all-inclusive, highly educational, VIP tours of Long Island’s world-class wine region. All VIP tours include round trip luxury motor coach transportation, expert tour host, private tasting's, behind–the-scenes visits at 3 premium level wine estates. A delicious vineyard lunch or gourmet restaurant lunch (seasonal) is included. We allow our attendees time at each winery tasting room to make purchases of wine or gift items.
When in season, Long Island Wine Country VIP Tours are conducted on a monthly basis with a maximum capacity of 56 guests. Seats are available on first come, first serve basis!
ALL-INCLUSIVE
"PUBLIC" TOUR PACKAGE INCLUDES:
Roundtrip transportation in a luxury motor coach with expert
tour guide
VIP tours and wine tasting at three prestigious winery estates
Complimentary snacks and water served onboard the motor
coach
Exclusive Wine Country International® Wine 101- a virtual
crash course on the basics of wine
Area history and points of interest covered by expert tour
guide
Wine cellar tour with winemaking overview
Rare & exclusive barrel tasting with award winning winemaker
Walking Vineyard Tour & viticultural discussion
Delicious vineyard lunch or gourmet restaurant lunch (seasonal)
Bon Voyage! Artisan Cheese Course served at the last winery
prior to departure
Special-purchasing opportunities available at winery gift
shops
Complimentary Issues of Wine Country International Magazine
Our
tours are all-inclusive. All wine tasting fees are included!
All of tours include a delicious lunch, water & a cheese tasting prior to departure. A multi-course lunch at highly acclaimed restaurants (Nov to May). Our summer & autumn tours including Harvest Fest event include a catered vineyard lunch. Special Diets, Vegetarian or more info call 866 946-3268.
Best Seller!
Flexible Gift Certificate
Good for *any 2012 VIP Tour Below
$159.00 per person
Deluxe Flexible Gift Certificate with
Meritage-style wine blending included!
Good for *any 2012 VIP Tour Below
$209.00 per person
New! 2012 VIP Tour Dates
We are pleased to announce the following 2012 public tours.
You can make your tour ticket reservations or purchase gift
certificates below: Flexible Tour Date Gift Certificates
Want to give someone a gift certificate for a Long Island Wine Country.com
tour, but you are not sure of which date to choose? Don't
worry! We now offer flexible date gift certificates, that
are good for use on the following tours:
Gift Certificates can be imprinted with the recipients name
and delivered to the purchaser or the recipient. For special requests or questions
please call 866 Wine Country (866 946-3268).
Order
Online
Long Island Wine Country Flexible Tour Gift Certificate $149.00
per person
Quantity
Select pick up location Tour dates subject to availability.
Recipients are encouraged to make their reservations early.
LongIslandWineCountry.COM Exclusive!
Wine Blending Course- (select tours only) $50 surcharge. We will work with an award winning winemaker to learn about the art of Meritage-style wine blending. All participants get to create one bottle of custom blended Wine (value $60-75). We will provide a custom wine label for you to sign before it is placed on your bottle.
Note: Bordeaux blended wines are made with two or more of the traditional Bordeaux grape varieties. The main Bordeaux red grapes are Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Carmenere, Malbec, Merlot and Petite Verdot. In the United States, such blends are referred to as MERITAGE wines, providing they meet certain requirements.
Good
for 12 months,to be used on any available public tour!
Looking
for a unique gift?
Why not treat your special friends or loved ones to a Long
Island Wine Country.com tour? As Long Island's premier wine
tour specialists, our tours have received rave reviews from
Time Out New York, The Daily
News, Newsday and New York Magazine. We are thankful that
Joan Hamburg and Arthur Schwartz of WOR 710 Radio have considered
our tours as an exceptional value for their radio listeners.All
of our packages are all-inclusive, including all tasting fees,
lunch and roundtrip transportation from convenient locations
in New York City, Nassau & Western Suffolk Counties.
You can select a specific event on this website and complete
the online ordering process with your credit card. Please
indicate (in the comments box) that "this is a gift for".
We will send a certificate to you for presentation to the
recipient.
If
you are not sure as to what date will be convenient, we also
offer gift certificates that may be used by the recipient
on any of our public tours, reservations are required.
We
do the driving. You can sit back & relax while enjoying
the view. Round trip transportation (included) in a luxury
motor coach. (on-board restroom, panoramic windows & video
monitors) with pick-ups in Manhattan, Nassau County &
Western Suffolk County. (See schedule below)
Dress code: Casual / jeans
Departure
Locations:
Long Island Wine Country.com's public tours depart from Manhattan,
Nassau County and Western Suffolk. For detailed departure
locations click here.
Pick-up Locations & Schedule:
Ticket
holders should arrive at the departure locations 15 minutes
early. We CAN NOT delay departures for late arrivals.
NEW
YORK CITY:
8:30am SOHO (Returns 6:30pm)
Soho Grand Hotel,
310 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
8:45am MID TOWN-GRAND CENTRAL STATION (Returns 6:15pm)
Pershing Square Restaurant, 90 E 42nd St, New York, NY 10017 (Directly across the street from The NY Grand Hyatt under the bridge).
9:00am(New location!) Fresh Meadows Queens (Returns 5:50pm)
Pick up in front of the AMC Loews Movie Theatre at 190-02 Horrace Harding, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365
10:00am COMMACK-WESTERN SUFFOLK (Returns 5:10pm)
“Park & Ride” lot at Commack Rd & LI EXPRESSWAY SOUTH SERVICE RD.
Take LIE to Exit 52 Commack Rd Exit. If traveling east, you will see lot on right. If traveling west, after you exit onto the service road, take a left at Commack RD (under expressway. The lot is at the corner of Commack Rd & the South LI Expressway service road. Do not confuse with the “Park-n-ride” at Wicks Rd)
10:20 AM Farmingville/Holtsville-Mid Suffolk (Returns 4:50pm)
LIE Exit 63 So Ocean Ave Crowne Plaza Hotel (So LI Expressway Service Rd). (Park in the lot and wait for the bus in the front lobby)
Flexible Tour Date
Gift Certificates
Want to give someone a gift certificate for a Long Island Wine
Country.com tour, but you are not sure of which date to choose?
Don't worry! We now offer flexible date gift certificates, that
are good for use on the following tours:
Gift Certificates can be imprinted with the recipients name
and delivered to the purchaser or the recipient. For special
requests or questions please call 866 Wine Country (866 946-3268).
Tour dates subject to
availability. Recipients are encouraged to make their reservations
early.
Order
Online
New! 2012 VIP Tour Dates
Long
Island Wine Country Flexible Tour Gift Certificate
$159.00 per person
We are pleased to announce the following 2012 public tours.
February 11, 2012 (Sat) "Wine Lovers" Tour #LIWC211
Celebration: Valentines Day Weekend
Details: Champagne and Chocolate toast, Three North Fork wineries, gourmet
restaurant lunch, artisnal cheese tasting prior to departure.
$159 per person
$209 with custom wine blending
April 14, 2012 (Sat) "Spring Wines" Tour #LIWC414
Celebration: First appearance of the grape buds in vineyard
Details: Two Hamptons wineries and one North Fork winery, gourmet restaurant
lunch, artisnal cheese tasting prior to departure.
$159 per person
$209 with custom wine blending
May 12, 2012 (Sat) "Merlot in May" Tour #LIWC512
Celebration: Mothers Day or any other reason to enjoy!
Details: Three wineries (North Fork), Gourmet restaurant lunch
lunch, artisnal cheese tasting prior to departure.
$159 per person
$209 with custom wine blending
June 16, 2012 (Sat) "Adventure in the Vines" Tour #LIWC616
Celebration: Father's Day weekend or any other reason to enjoy
Details: Three North Fork wineries, delicious boxed vineyard lunch, artisnal
cheese tasting prior to departure.
$149 per person
Quantity
Select pick up location
$199 with custom wine blending
Quantity
Select pick up location
July 21, 2012 (Sat) "Summer Vines" Tour #LIWC721
Celebration: Summer & Bastille Day
Details: Three North Fork wineries, delicious boxed vineyard lunch, artisnal cheese tasting prior to departure.
$149 per person
Quantity
Select pick up location
$199 with custom wine blending
Quantity
Select pick up location
August 19, 2012 (Sun) "Summer Never Ends" Tour #LIWC819
Celebration: Our big end of the summer tour with delicious Lobster Bake!
Details: Three North Fork wineries, delicious Lobster Bake vineyard lunch with all the trimmings and wines by the glass, artisnal cheese tasting prior to departure.
$199 per person
Quantity
Select pick up location
$249 with custom wine blending
Quantity
Select pick up location
September 29, 2012 (Sat) "Autumn Vines" Tour #LIWC929
Celebration: Pre Harvest Autumn Vines
Details: Three North Fork wineries, delicious vineyard
lunch, artisnal cheese tasting prior to departure.
$149 per person
Quantity
Select pick up location
$199 with custom wine blending
Quantity
Select pick up location
October 20, 2012 (Sat) "Autumn Savory " Tour #LIWC1020
Celebration: Autumn in the wine country
Details: Three North Fork wineries, delicious boxed vineyard lunch, artisnal cheese tasting prior to departure.
$149 per person
Quantity
Select pick up location
$199 with custom wine blending
Quantity
Select pick up location
Nov 10, 2012 (Sat) “Holiday D'Jour Tour #LIWC1110
Celebration: Pre-Holiday’s
Details: Three North Fork wineries, gourmet restaurant
lunch, artisnal cheese tasting prior to departure.
$159 per person
Quantity
Select pick up location
$209 with custom wine blending
Quantity
Select pick up location
December 8, 2012 (Sat) “December Cheer Tour #LIWC1208
Celebration: Last public tour of the year!
Details: Three North Fork wineries, gourmet restaurant
lunch, artisnal cheese tasting prior to departure. Bonus “Blind Wine Tasting”
$159 per person
Quantity
Select pick up location
$209 with custom wine blending
Quantity
Select pick up location
Telephone
Orders:
CALL TOLL FREE (866) 946-3268
Note: Tour dates subject to change without written notice!
Only confirmed reservations will be notified of changes. New tour dates are
added subject to demand. All updates and additions are found on our website: www.LongIslandWineCountry.COM
Gift
Certificates:
We
are pleased to offer several Gift Certificate options. Gift
Certificates are custom imprinted with the recipient(s)
name and may shipped directly to the purchaser or recipient.
For online orders please indicate the recipient(s) names
in the comment box at check out. For example, “Gift
for Mary Jane & William Smith” love Bob &
Megan.
Flexible
Gift Certificates: These are our most popular type. They can be used(subject
to availability) on any public tour within one year of issuance.
Recipient must call or email us with their gift certificate
number and desired tour date. Cost: $149 per person
Date
Specific Gift Certificates: You may also reserve a specific tour gift certificate.
Gift certificates for a specific tour date are priced accordingly.
Our VIP Public Tours with three wineries, restaurant lunch
and transportation cost $149 per person. Our Harvest Fest
gift Certificates are priced at $139 with transportation
or $129 for drive-ups.
2012 Tour Policies:
Our Reliability Guarantee. We always show-up as scheduled,
transport you safely!
How
to Confirm Your Reservation:
1)
All orders are confirmed via email. The email is
your “ticket”
2)
If you must reconfirm, please email info@longislandwinecountry.com If you must confirm, please confirm only once…at least
7 days in advance!
3)
Please do not call the day before your tour! We
will be difficult to reach because we are in wine country
with limited cell phone coverage. You may not receive a
return call.
4)
Possibility of Snowfall: The New York area media
and grocery chains like to make consumers fear being snowbound
at the slightest sign of a snowflake. We do not cancel our
tours because of possible snowfall (less than 6 inches).
98% of the activities are indoors. Plus wine will keep you
warm!
5)
Cancellations & Postponements: Tickets are
non-refundable. All tours are rain or shine.If you wish
to change your date or reschedule, you must provide 14-day
notice. If less than 14 days, you may re-schedule by paying
a $35 per person rebooking fee.
Answers
to common questions: 1) How do I order a gift certificate online for delivery
directly to the recipient? A) Insert recipients
name, address, phone into the deliver to section of the
order page. Also include recipient info in comment box so
we can imprint as you wish. Note: if your order does not include info in the deliver
to section, we will
ship the gift certificate directly to the purchaser address.
2)
I am ordering the gift certificate as a holiday gift. How
long will it take to get to the recipient? A) We
ship all gift certificates within 24 hours.
All orders received by 3 pm EST are shipped the same day,
All orders
are sent via US Priority Mail and take 2-3 days. Our Christmas
2011 cutoff
date for orders to be received by 12/24 is Friday 12/21.
We also offer
overnight delivery via Fed-Ex. The added shipping cost is
$20 and we must
deliver to a street address (not PO Box).
3)
I am giving a flexible gift certificate to my Brother and
his Wife. The cost is $149 ea/ $298.00. What happens if
they choose to attend a lower priced Harvest Fest event? A) We will provide them with a complimentary
bottle of wine (one bottle per person).
4)
We have an expired gift certificate. Can we still use it? A) Yes, by paying any difference in cost from
when it was purchased and when the new tour is ordered.
For example, our 2007 gift certificates cost $124. We have
enhanced the 2012 tours with a gourmet restaurant lunch.
The cost difference is $25 per person.
For
additional Information contact:
Wine Country Network Inc.
Tel. (866) 946-3268
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