Lunch Menu

If you have ordered a picnic lunch for your tour, we will stay a little longer at one of the wineries and have a catered picnic buffet. It is customary to purchase a bottle of wine from the designated lunch location winery to enjoy with your meal - we provide non-alcoholic beverages with the picnic.

Lunch at Savannah-Chanelle Vineyards, Saratoga

Our wine tour lunch is a catered gourmet picnic, served buffet-style using attractive serve-ware on a separate table with a table cloth, served using designer paper plates with coordinating paper napkins and stainless flatware eating utensils (no plastic forks!). Each lunch costs $22.50 per person - in addition, most of the wineries also charge a facility/set-up fee of $5.00 to $10.00 per person.

Picnic lunches (listed below) are prepared by the kitchen staff at South Bay Wine Tours - for lunches or winery dinners that require chafing dishes/hot food or waiter service, please ask your tour planner for a current full-service catering menu.

$22.50 per person. (includes tax & gratuity, plus a staff person present to toss the salad and serve the group)

Please make one selection per group from the menu below:

California Picnic Buffet

The California picnic is our most popular lunch because the sandwiches are delicious, you get a nice tossed salad, and this lunch also offers great variety for everyone, including the Vegetarians in the group:

• a gourmet selection of petite sandwiches on assorted homemade breads
• salad: Mixed Greens & crisp Romaine with dried cranberries, feta on the side, and tossed with Balsamic vinaigrette
• a bowl of gourmet chips (such as Maui onion chips)
• stuffed grape leaves (filled with a savory rice filling) & dill pickle tray
• fresh fruit (organic when available)
  

Country Picnic

• potato or Southwestern pasta salad
• herb-marinated, barbecued chicken breast (served chilled)
• fresh grapes & berries or a tray of fresh fruit kebobs
• brownie or cookie
  

Mediterranean Platters (for small groups of 10 or less, or as a snack for larger groups)

The perfect accompaniment to a bottle of wine, these platters offer a plentiful & gourmet selection of finger foods with lots of variety. Platters are placed in the middle of the picnic table (not buffet-style like our other lunches), and each platter is made to serve the number of people sitting at each table. Everyone then serves themselves from the platter.

These platters may also be ordered as a snack to serve at one of the wineries during the tour.

• herbed dry-cured olives
• a section of gourmet cheeses (up to 3 cheeses, such as Double Cream Gouda, Rosemary Malagon, St. Andre Brie, Vermont White Cheddar, etc.)
• sliced baguette + cracker breads such as rosemary croccantini
• stuffed grape leaves (rice filling)
• hummus
• fresh grapes