Three Tables, Three Pours, and Spanish Streets in Between
An afternoon walk through St. Augustine's colonial core, built around a wine tasting, two more pours, and a plate at each table.
Two in the afternoon, outside Casa de Vino 57 on Treasury Street, in the middle of the historic district. A guide checks IDs and the group walks. Three tables fill the next three and a half hours. A wine tasting with charcuterie at the first, then a plate and a drink of your choosing at each of the next two. In between you cross a plaza laid out under Spain’s 1573 Law of the Indies, and a street you enter through city gates built in 1808. St. Augustine Experiences puts the total walking at about seven tenths of a mile.
Every plate and every drink is in the price, water between stops included. Public departures run semi-private, eight guests or fewer.
St. Augustine's Wine, Cocktail and Food ExperienceSmall group walking tour, 21+ for the alcohol, free cancellation up to 24 hours beforewww.viator.comWhat Lands on Each Table
The first stop is a wine tasting with a charcuterie board, and the operator says that flight is picked by the venue’s own team. At the second and third tables a plate arrives with a drink, and the drink is yours. The guide carries recommendations for both; anything else on the menu is fair game. Bartender and server gratuities are already inside the price, according to St. Augustine Experiences. That leaves a tip for the guide as the only one still open. A vegetarian plate is available when you flag it at booking.
The Walking Is Shorter Than the Afternoon
Seven landmarks sit on the published route and only three carry time on the clock: five minutes at the Huguenot Cemetery, twenty on St. George Street, ten on the Plaza de la Constitución. The other four you pass, among them the Castillo de San Marcos and the Cathedral Basilica. That is thirty five scheduled minutes inside a two hundred and ten minute afternoon. The rest belongs to the tables and the walk between them. The streets are old brick and uneven in stretches, and the pace is slow by design. Tours go out rain or shine, with ponchos handed round.
Who Can Come, and What to Bring
Wine and cocktails here are 21 and over, and IDs get checked before the group moves off. Bring a driver’s license; visitors from abroad need a passport. St. Augustine Experiences says underage guests and non drinkers pay the same price and drink mocktails. The booking form sells one adult traveler type, and that is the rate everyone pays. No printed ticket is needed. Two guests open a new departure; once a date is live, solo travelers can book onto it, and the form carries a special requirements box for anything the guide should know in advance.
Getting There, and Where It Leaves You
📍 The meeting point is Treasury Street, outside Casa de Vino 57, in the middle of the historic district. There is no parking at the meeting point. The operator lists hourly street parking on the Plaza and along 79 to 99 Granada Street, plus flat fee lots at 5 Artillery Lane and the Historic Garage at 1 Cordova Street, the last of those about fifteen minutes on foot. The tour ends on Aviles Street, within two blocks of the Plaza de la Constitución.
Cancel at least twenty four hours before the two o'clock departure and the refund is full. Diets are where the two descriptions part ways. The listing files vegan, kosher, dairy and gluten free restrictions under a much more limited selection; the operator's own page for this tour says those cannot be accommodated at all, and names nut allergies alongside them. Vegetarian is the exception on both counts, available with notice at booking. Wheelchair access and service animals are listed, and the route asks for a moderate level of fitness. What you are buying is three and a half hours of Spanish streets with a glass in your hand, ending two blocks from where the city began.