Six Kentucky Wineries and How to Reach Them With a Private Driver
Updated November 2026 · BourbonTown Tours
For Kentucky wine tours, BourbonTown Tours supplies the ride rather than the tour: your group plans the wineries, and a transportation-only booking puts our private vehicle and driver on that plan for the hours you book. Rates for a winery day on that booking: SUV for 1 to 5 guests, $100 an hour. Van for 6 to 14 guests, $150 an hour. 4-hour minimum, plus 6% KY sales tax and a 3% booking fee. Billing runs from the time our vehicle leaves our garage until it returns.
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Quick Facts
- The six wineries on this page sit in Bardstown, Lebanon, Shepherdsville, Midway, Shelbyville and Lawrenceburg.
- A group can add a winery on a transportation-only booking, which means our vehicle and driver running your own plan.
- The driver drives and does not guide, so nobody narrates between stops.
- Winery-day pickup: at the guest's hotel or door in Louisville, Bardstown or Lexington.
- Winery tickets and lunch are on the guest in this format.
Six Kentucky wineries a group can add on a transportation-only booking
- Jester's Winery, Lebanon
- McIntyre's Winery, Bardstown
- Forest Edge Winery, Shepherdsville
- Equus Run Winery, Midway
- Talon Winery, Shelbyville
- Lover's Leap, Lawrenceburg
- Jester's Winery
- McIntyre's Winery
- Forest Edge Winery
- Equus Run Winery
- Talon Winery
- Lover's Leap
How a winery day on transportation only works
On a transportation-only booking the plan belongs to your group, and the vehicle and driver follow it. You pick the wineries, set the order, make any reservations and pay for your tickets at each one. The vehicle is held for your party alone, and the driver runs the list you send, so a winery can sit on the same booking as distilleries you have arranged yourself.
A couple on a winery day pays the SUV rate, and a tasting party of 6 to 14 moves to a van at the van rate; the FAQ below gives the seats in each vehicle. Groups over 14 travel in multiple vehicles or a bus or motor coach we contract. Our fleet page shows all four vehicles, and the transportation-only terms carry the full booking rules for a winery day.
How far the wine towns sit from the three pickup cities
The pickup city in the Quick Facts sets the first drive of every winery day. McIntyre's Winery is in Bardstown, and the drive there runs about 50 minutes from Louisville or about 75 minutes from Lexington.
Lover's Leap is in Lawrenceburg, which sits about 65 minutes from Louisville, about 45 minutes from Bardstown and about 30 minutes from Lexington.
Jester's Winery sits in Lebanon, Forest Edge Winery in Shepherdsville, Equus Run Winery in Midway and Talon Winery in Shelbyville. List each one where you want it in the order you send, and the quote works the hours out around them.
Drive times between Kentucky's distillery clusters has the full table.
How a custom private bourbon tour is priced and booked
A custom private tour is a separate product from transportation only, built around distilleries. Transportation only bills by the hour; a custom tour bills by the head, at $275 to $425 per person depending on group size, plus 6% KY sales tax and a 3% booking fee, with everything except lunch and driver gratuity covered. Custom tour prices by group size has the per-person figures. What a custom tour includes lists each item, and custom private bourbon tours shows how that day gets built.
On a custom tour, we book distillery tickets once your tour is confirmed, against your actual dates, and confirm every reservation in the itinerary. How add-ons fit around a bourbon day covers the add-ons people ask for, which the FAQ below names.
We reply the same day between 8 AM and 8 PM Eastern. Requests after 8 PM get a reply the next morning.
A Louisville winery that has closed
Old 502 Winery in Louisville has closed its tasting room, so it is no longer a stop a group can add. The six wineries above are the ones on this page.
Frequently asked questions
Does BourbonTown Tours run a wine tour of its own?
No. BourbonTown Tours has no winery tour of its own. A winery day fits a transportation-only booking, which puts our vehicle and driver on your group's own plan for the hours you book. Your group chooses the wineries, the order and any reservations, and transportation-only terms in full cover the rest of the booking.
Which add-ons do people ask for with a custom tour?
With a custom tour, the add-ons people ask for include Keeneland, Churchill Downs and the Louisville Slugger Museum. On race days, a morning tour and then the track works. Name the add-on you want when you send your dates and group size, and how add-ons fit around a bourbon day covers how each one pairs with the distilleries.
Does the driver guide the winery visits?
No. A transportation-only booking is driver only, with no guide narration on the road or at the stops. The driver gets your group from one winery to the next on the plan you wrote, and the times on your list are the times the vehicle runs to.
How many people fit in one vehicle?
Wine-tasting couples ride in the Audi A8 sedan (up to 3 guests) or the GMC Yukon Denali SUV (1 to 5), and larger winery parties take a Ford Transit van (6 to 14) or the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van (6 to 14). Your headcount decides the vehicle and the hourly rate. Groups over 14 travel in multiple vehicles or a bus or motor coach we contract. Our fleet, with the seats in each vehicle describes all four.
Where does the driver pick us up?
For a winery day, pickup is at the guest's hotel or door in Louisville, Bardstown or Lexington. If your group flies in on the morning of the winery day, give us the flight when you send your dates and we can start from the airport. The city you stay in shapes the first drive of the day, and where to stay in Kentucky bourbon country compares the three bases.
Send your winery list and your dates
Tell us which wineries you want, the order, your group size and the date, and the quote comes back with the vehicle and the hours. Breweries book the same way: see Kentucky brewery tours by private vehicle. If your trip lines up with a bourbon festival, Kentucky bourbon festivals, month by month gives the month each one falls in.