Australia and New Zealand

Far-flung wine tours are gaining in popularity. Pinnacle Wine Tours' Down Under Wine & Culinary Tour offers a private wine tasting at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide; a backstage tour of the Sydney Opera House; a visit to the Cleland Wildlife Sanctuary a spa treatment, winemaker dinners, an informal wine tutorial at The Hunter Valley Wine School, and a luxury catamaran cruise and visits to the wine regions of Barossa and Clare valleys. Then it's off to New Zealand, where you'll learn to blend wines in Auckland and visit several more wine regions. The 16-day, 15-night tour starts at $6,795, double occupancy. You also can take the Australia tour only (10 days, nine nights), starting at $3,795, or New Zealand tour only (seven days, six nights), starting at $2,995.

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