How Much Does a Mount Etna Wine Tour Cost?
Mount Etna wine tour prices compared: cellar-door tastings from $42, half-day tours from Taormina from $67, two-winery days with lunch from $140, and private days from about $300 per person. What each price includes.
A guided Etna wine tour built around the tasting starts at $67 per person for the half-day tasting tour from Taormina, and most full days with a winery lunch cost between $106 and $200. A tasting booked at the winery itself, where you make your own way there, costs from $42. Private days start at about $300 per person. These are GetYourGuide prices checked on 6 October 2026, and every one is per person unless we say otherwise.
The main differences
- A good all-round choice: the Taormina half-day tasting tour, from $67. Four wines and a Sicilian aperitivo at a north-slope estate, rated 4.7/5 from more than 600 reviews.
- Most of the price is transport, lunch and the size of the group. The wine poured on a $67 coach tour and on a $200 food-and-wine day is the same kind of current-vintage Etna DOC.
- The transfer from Taormina costs about $20. The half-day tour pours at the Gambino estate, and Gambino’s own tasting there is $47 if you drive yourself.
- Two wineries and a cooked lunch cost $140 from Catania and $162 from Taormina. The Catania day and the Taormina day both include transport.
- Private days are priced per person, not per car. At the starting price, two people pay $628 for the private three-winery tour.
- Every listing here can be cancelled free up to 24 hours before.
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The tour we’d compare first
At $67, the Taormina half-day wine tour is the cheapest guided tour built around a proper tasting, and its review record is far longer than anything else on Etna’s wine side. The coach leaves in the early afternoon from pick-up points on the coast road around Taormina and Giardini Naxos, and reviewers consistently place the tasting at the Gambino winery above Linguaglossa, at about 900 metres. You get four wines with bread, cheeses, preserves and sun-dried tomatoes, and you are back in Taormina in the evening.
It makes most sense if you are staying in Taormina, want one good tasting without giving up a whole day, and do not mind a full-size coach. Getting from your hotel to the pick-up point is up to you, and a lunch it is not. If you want to sit down to a meal at a winery, the two-winery days below cost $73 to $95 more. Our full guide to the Gambino tour covers the day hour by hour.
Other tours to compare
If you have a car
The Etna Nord tasting at Linguaglossa is $47 at the same Gambino estate: a welcome glass, four current vintages, a winery tour and a board of Sicilian cheeses, preserves and the estate’s olive oil, rated 4.9/5 from 55 reviews. The longer Gambino tasting at $68 adds a fifth glass, soup, grilled sausage with potatoes and spinach and a cannolo, which makes it lunch. The cheapest tasting on the mountain is Favazza’s four-glass tasting at $42, with food that changes daily, rated 4.7/5 from 33 reviews.
If you are staying in Catania
The urban winery lunch in Catania costs $70 for antipasti, a pasta course, a meat or fish main and four Etna wines in a courtyard inside the city, rated 4.9/5 from 87 reviews. Nobody has to drive and there is no mountain road, although you never see a vineyard on the volcano.
If two wineries and lunch matter most
From Catania, the Etna wine tasting and food tour is $140 for two wineries, seven wines with a sommelier, a stop for honey in Zafferana and a full lunch at the second estate, rated 4.8/5 from 341 reviews. From Taormina, the Etna wineries small-group tour costs $162 for an aperitivo and tasting at one winery, lunch with three DOP wines at the second and a walk in Castiglione di Sicilia, in a van of no more than eight, rated 4.8/5 from 107 reviews. For us, the second winery and the lunch are the upgrade that changes the day most.
If you want to walk on the volcano too
From Taormina, the full-day Etna, wine and Alcantara tour is $151 with hotel pick-up, a crater walk, a lava cave, a winery lunch and the Alcantara Gorges entry, rated 4.8/5 from 519 reviews. From Catania, the Etna, wine and Alcantara tour with lunch covers much the same ground for $106, rated 4.8/5 from more than 500 reviews. On both, the volcano takes most of the day and the winery is the lunch stop.
For a private day
The private three-winery tour costs $314 per person, with pick-up from your hotel or the cruise port, ten wines across three family estates and food at each, rated 4.9/5 from 105 reviews. It suits a couple or a family who want the day to themselves. Because it is priced per person, the total rises with every guest: at the starting price, four people pay $1,256.
What Etna wine tours cost
These are per-person starting prices, grouped by the kind of day. Departure is the first thing to check, because the Taormina and Catania tours go to different sides of the mountain.
| Tour | Starts from | From price | Time | What you get | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Favazza winery tasting | the winery | $42 | about 1 hour | 4 glasses, food pairing | 4.7 · 33 |
| Etna Nord tasting, Gambino | the winery, Linguaglossa | $47 | 1.5 hours | 4 glasses, cheese board | 4.9 · 55 |
| Old Sicily and Etna wine tour | Taormina | $61 | 8 hours | Randazzo, Alcantara, one tasting; lunch and gorge entry extra | 4.4 · 27 |
| Half-day tasting tour | Taormina | $67 | 5 hours | coach, 4 wines, aperitivo | 4.7 · 646 |
| Winery tour and tasting, Gambino | the winery, Linguaglossa | $68 | 2 hours | 5 glasses, hot lunch | 4.8 · 135 |
| Urban winery lunch | Catania city | $70 | 1.5 hours | 3-course lunch, 4 wines | 4.9 · 87 |
| Sunset tour with wine tasting | Catania | $75 | 6 hours | sunset walk, a glass of wine, light food | 4.9 · 225 |
| Sunset tour and Etna DOC wine | Catania | $89 | 5 hours | sunset walk, a glass of wine | 5.0 · 168 |
| Etna, wine and Alcantara | Catania | $106 | 8 hours | crater walk, lava cave, winery lunch, gorges | 4.8 · 548 |
| Etna trek, wine and food | Siracusa | $106 | 7.5 hours | trek, wine and local products | 4.8 · 220 |
| Etna half-day and wine experience | Catania | $116 | 7 hours | craters, lava cave, wine and local products | 4.5 · 252 |
| Etna jeep tour: lava and wine | Catania or Taormina | $123 | 4–5 hours | jeep, lava cave, winery, brunch | 4.7 · 82 |
| Full-day Etna and wine tour | Catania | $132 | 8 hours | nature walk, lava cave, cellar tasting | 4.9 · 190 |
| Etna and wine full day with lunch | Taormina | $137 | 8 hours | north-slope craters, lava cave, winery lunch | 4.7 · 33 |
| Wine tasting and food tour | Catania | $140 | 7 hours | 2 wineries, 7 wines, lunch | 4.8 · 341 |
| Etna, wine and Alcantara | Taormina | $151 | 8.5 hours | crater walk, lava cave, winery lunch, gorges | 4.8 · 519 |
| Etna wineries small-group tour | Taormina | $162 | 8.5 hours | 2 wineries, lunch, Castiglione | 4.8 · 107 |
| Etna tour with wine tasting and lunch | Taormina | $162 | 7 hours | lava tunnels, craters, winery lunch | 5.0 · 28 |
| Etna walking tour with winery tasting | Taormina | $169 | 7 hours | 1.5-hour walk, winery food and wine | 4.9 · 372 |
| Food and wine tasting tour | Taormina | $200 | 6 hours | 5 glasses, organic farmhouse lunch | 4.8 · 438 |
| Private tour with food and wine | Catania | $303 | 6–7 hours | private car, one winery, honey | 5.0 · 25 |
| Private three-winery tour | Taormina area or cruise port | $314 | 6.5–7 hours | private, 3 wineries, 10 wines | 4.9 · 105 |
Prices checked 6 October 2026. Operators use dynamic pricing, so these figures are a guide; check the booking page for the current price. Every tour named on this page is linked, with its rating and review count beside it, and a low review count is a reason for caution rather than a verdict. Tours that only visit the volcano, with no winery stop, are left out.
Two listings in the table need a second look. The $61 Old Sicily tour from Taormina leaves lunch and the Alcantara Gorges entry out of its price, and it is rated 4.4/5 from 27 reviews, the lowest of the tours above. And the $132 full-day tour from Catania lists a cellar tasting but no lunch, and the cable car and 4x4 to the upper slopes are paid on the spot, so the $106 Catania day with lunch included costs less for more.
Where the extra money goes
Mostly on the vehicle, the lunch and how many people share them. The tasting itself changes much less than the price does.
Around $40 to $70: a tasting at the winery. You get yourself there, and you get four or five glasses with cheese and preserves, or a cooked plate at the dearer end. The Gambino winery tour and tasting at $68 is the most food for the money.
Around $65 to $90: a half-day with transport. The Taormina coach tour and the two Catania sunset trips sit here. The sunset trips are walks on the volcano with a glass of wine at the end; the Taormina tour is a tasting with a drive either side.
Around $105 to $170: a full day with a winery lunch. Most tours from both towns sit here, and within this range the inclusions are close: a guided walk or a lava cave, one winery, lunch and transport. What separates them is where they start, how many people share the van, and whether a second winery replaces the volcano walk. On the Etna walking tour from Taormina at $169, the group is limited to eight.
Around $200 and above: more food, then a private car. The Taormina food and wine tour at $200 adds an organic farmhouse lunch with dessert and limoncello to five glasses, door to door. Above that, the private days at $303 and $314 per person give you the car and the guide to yourselves.
What stays the same whatever you pay
Paying more does not get you better wine. The estates that take tour groups pour their current Etna Rosso, Bianco and often a rosato on the cheap tours and the dear ones alike, and the views over the north slope are the same from a coach as from a private car. What changes is how many people you share the day with, whether you eat a proper lunch, and whether you are collected from your hotel. Every tour here can be cancelled free up to 24 hours before it starts.
What the starting price leaves out
- Getting to the pick-up point. The $67 Taormina tour collects from set points on the coast road, and the Catania sunset trips meet in the city centre. Hotel pick-up is included on the full days from Taormina and on the private tours.
- Lunch, on the cheaper days. The half-day tours serve snacks with the wine, and the $61 Old Sicily tour and the $132 Catania full day list no lunch.
- The cable car. No wine tour here includes the cable car or the 4x4 to the summit area.
- Bottles and tips. Wine bought at the cellar door and gratuities are extra everywhere.
- Different dates and options. A from-price is the cheapest date and option on sale, and prices may vary depending on the day you pick.
At the starting prices, two people pay $134 for the Taormina half-day tour and $324 for the two-winery day from Taormina, and four people pay $268 and $648.
Should you pay more?
Pay more if you want to sit down to lunch at a winery and taste at two estates, because that is what the $140 to $162 days add, in smaller groups and with transport. If one good tasting is enough and you are happy on a coach, the $67 half-day tour from Taormina, or the $47 tasting at the same estate if you have a car, gives you the same wines for much less. A private day makes sense when you want the pace and the car to yourselves, since it costs about twice as much per person as a shared day.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does a Mount Etna wine tour cost?
From $67 per person for the half-day tasting tour from Taormina, and around $106 to $200 for a full day with a winery lunch. Private days start at about $300 per person. A tasting booked at the winery, where you arrange your own transport, costs from $42.
What is the cheapest Etna wine tour with transport?
The Old Sicily and Etna tour from Taormina is the cheapest at $61, a sightseeing day with one tasting, but lunch and the Alcantara Gorges entry are extra and it is rated 4.4/5 from 27 reviews. The half-day tasting tour from Taormina, from $67 per person, is the cheapest built around the wine, with four wines and an aperitivo, rated 4.7/5 from more than 600 reviews.
How much is a private Etna wine tour?
The private three-winery tour costs from $314 per person, and the private food and wine tour from Catania from $303 per person. Both are priced per person, so at the starting price two people pay $628 on the three-winery tour.
Are Etna wine tours cheaper from Catania or from Taormina?
Similar days tend to cost a little less from Catania. Two wineries with lunch cost $140 on the wine tasting and food tour from Catania and $162 on the small-group tour from Taormina. The Etna, wine and Alcantara day costs $106 from Catania and $151 from Taormina.
Is it cheaper to book a tasting directly with the winery?
Usually, yes. Tornatore lists its four-glass Classic Tasting at €30 (about $34) on its own website, and its tasting with cured meats and cheeses at €40 (about $45). Booking direct only works if you have a car or a driver.
Is lunch included on Etna wine tours?
On most full days, yes, and on the two-winery days lunch is at the second estate. The half-day tasting tours serve an aperitivo of cheese and preserves instead.
Euro prices converted at €1 = $1.1269, the ECB reference rate on 6 October 2026.
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