Some afternoons are meant to be slow. A bottle of Tennessee wine, a blanket on the grass, a country band playing under the trees while the hills roll out in every direction. That is an ordinary weekend at Arrington Vineyards, the winery Kix Brooks co-founded in the countryside twenty-five miles south of Nashville, and the only catch is that somebody usually has to skip the wine to get everyone home.
We shaped our Arrington Vineyards tour around exactly that problem, putting a chauffeur behind the wheel for the run down Patton Road and back, so the wine, the music, and the view belong to everyone aboard. You pour, you linger, you leave when you are ready, and getting home is never your concern.
The vineyard sits in Arrington, a rural pocket of Williamson County near Franklin, about a forty-minute ride from downtown Nashville. We take I-65 or I-840 south and then turn onto Patton Road, a two-lane country stretch where the farms and grapevines start to appear around the bends.
It is a pretty drive and an easy one to underestimate. After a few tastings, those same country roads turn tricky, and rideshare coverage this far out of the city can leave you waiting far longer than you would like. When we are at the wheel, the only thing your group tracks is which bottle to open next.
Arrington is not a quick stop. The property spreads across ninety-five acres, with five tasting rooms, a covered deck for the views, and shaded lawns made for a picnic you bring yourself.
The wine list includes more than twenty bottles produced and bottled on site, several of them award-winners, including the Syrah that first put the place on the map. On weekends from April through November, live music fills the grounds through the Music in the Vines series, and food trucks pull in on Fridays through the warmer months. It is less a tasting appointment than an afternoon you sink into, and we think it deserves your full attention rather than half an eye on the road.
If your group wants something more structured than the lawn, Arrington keeps several private rooms for larger parties, each with its own character. This is where it matters most to whoever planned the outing. Nobody in that spot wants to spend it counting heads in a parking lot or deciding who is fit to drive home, and with the shuttle already sorted, that worry is simply gone.
A group tasting runs about forty-five minutes and needs a reservation, so our private shuttle to Arrington Vineyards is timed around your booking, and we bring the group to the vineyard’s current guest arrival area.
Drive the same road out to the same vineyard enough times, and you start to notice things a first-timer never would:
Plenty of groups have made this same run out to the vines, and our Google Reviews tell you how it went.
However you plan the day at Arrington, whether a quiet tasting for two or a party taking over the grounds, you’ll find a vehicle that fits the count in our fleet:
If Arrington is one stop rather than the whole afternoon, tell us at booking. A second winery changes the timing more than the headcount does, and it decides whether the vehicle waits or runs a loop.
With our Arrington Vineyards private transportation, we match the ride to the size and the spirit of your group.
A few details make the day easier. Tastings are twenty-one and up, so bring a valid ID for everyone in the party. Lock in reservations ahead for group tastings and busy weekends, especially when a band is playing.
The vineyard welcomes picnics, so a cooler and a blanket are fair game, and the grounds keep plenty of free parking, though that matters little when someone else is driving. Tell us your pickup point, your headcount, and whether you want a sit-down tasting, an afternoon on the lawn, or both, and our Arrington Vineyards wine tasting tours will bend the timing around your plan.
One thing to know before you pack: the private rooms do not allow outside food or drink, and a booking runs 90 minutes for the Wine Loft, with a guided tasting included. The picnic rules apply to the lawn, not to the rooms. Plenty of groups do both, tasting inside first and settling outside afterward, which is how we usually time the day.
The best days at Arrington are the ones nobody has to manage. With a chauffeur doing the driving, your whole group gets to taste, enjoy the band, and head home at the end without anyone having to nurse a single glass to stay sharp for the road. At Whiskey Trail Tours, we have been running this route out to the vineyard long before the crowds found it.
A quick call is usually all we need to lock in a date and the right vehicle for your numbers. Reach us by phone at (615) 942-1033, email us at info@whiskeytrailtours.com, or send your details through the quote form, and consider your afternoon at the vineyard sorted.
Tour distilleries, wineries, breweries and the city of Nashville in a private chauffeured vehicle, for groups of 2 to 56.
