Cyprus Wine Tour
Tuesday 5th – Saturday 9th May 2026 – fully booked
Tuesday 13th – Saturday 17th October 2026 – fully booked
Tuesday 20th – Saturday 24th October 2026 – limited availability
5 days/4 nights based in Limassol or Pathos, £1,549pp, £125 single supplement
Price excludes flights/Early booking discount available
- Visits to renowned estates, meeting owners and winemakers, and tasting top level wines
- Our visits will cover key grape growing areas of Cyprus: PDO Krasochoria, PDO Laona Akama, PDO Vouni Panagias-Ampelitis and PGI areas around Limassol and Paphos
- Staying in Limassol with its famous beaches, old town and castle
- We will enjoy the beautiful Troodos mountains, amazing viticultural landscapes and a mix of modern and traditional wineries
- At least six visits over three days
- Comprehensive tastings at every visit, and four fabulous tasting lunches or dinners
Tour dates 2026
Tuesday 5th – Saturday 9th May 2026 – fully booked
Tuesday 13th – Saturday 17th October 2026- fully booked
Tuesday 20th – Saturday 24th October 2026 – limited availability
- Read the tour reports of my previous tours to Greece, and more recent tours to Sicily, which give a flavour of what my tours are like.
Outline Itinerary
Day 1
Our tour commences at our Meeting Point at Larnaca Airport (see Flight Transfers below). Our coach will take us directly to Limassol, where we will settle into the Alasia Hotel.
We will meet in the hotel bar for a glass of wine at 6.30pm, and enjoy dinner in their award winning restaurant for our first taste of Cypriot gastronomy.
Day 2
After a delightful breakfast by the pool, we will head inland from Limassol and head to the picturesque village of Omodos.
A number of top class wineries can be found here including the stunning Oenou Yi, Gerolemou and Zambartas.
We will visit two wineries and have lunch at the wonderful Katoi taverna.
Evening at leisure in Limassol.
Day 3
This will be our longest day as we head even further inland from Limassol and up into the Troodos mountains.
We have a tasting lunch at Casale Panayiotis and more tasting at the incredible Marathasa winery with utterly stunning views.
Evening at leisure in Limassol.
Day 4
Paphos is our destination and the wine regions that will offer a different perspective on the two previous days.
Vouni Paniya and Makarounas are the two wineries that we visit combined with lunch at a local taverna.
We will enjoy a final night dinner together in Limassol.
Day 5
We should have time to fit in a visit and light lunch before heading back to Larnaca for the late afternoon flight back to the UK.
Note: the Itinerary may be changed at Tim Syrad Wine Tours discretion so as to facilitate the smooth running of the tour and to accommodate great opportunities for visits or tastings that may become available.
Key Tour Information
* The Key Tour Information specifies what you should expect from the tour, no matter how far ahead you book.
As additional information is published on the website, it will be advised to clients who have reserved a place. The daily itinerary will be finalised in the weeks leading up to the Start Date.
Pricing
- £1,549 per person based on 2 people sharing a double/twin room.
- £125 supplement for single occupancy of a double room,
- £100 discount for bookings made before 1st January 2026, and paid for 10 weeks before departure.
Price includes
- Transport from the Meeting Point at Larnaca Airport to the hotel on Day 1, and to the Departure Point at Larnaca Airport on Day 5.
- 5 days (including arrival and departure days)/4 nights bed and breakfast in the 4* Alasia Hotel in Limassol.
- Coach for all activities in the itinerary.
- Three full days of visits and tastings.
- Six visits/tastings, including wineries in major PGI and PDO regions, tasting the key grape varieties and wine styles.
- Four lunches/dinners with local wines.
- All local taxes and service charges.
- The services of Tim Syrad as your Wine Tour Manager and Wine Guide.
It is a condition of my accepting a booking that you will take out appropriate travel insurance – please see our Terms and Conditions Section 8.
Terms and Conditions are available here or on request.
Please note flights are not included in the price. Many of my clients prefer to extend their holiday before or after my tours, so I let people make their own flight arrangements.
* End of Key Tour Information
Flight Transfers
Our Meeting and Departure Point is Larnaca Airport. I will arrange transfers to coincide with the following flights.
Tour 1
Outbound (Tuesday 5th May 2026 )
British Airways from London Heathrow to Larnaca (LCA). Flight BA0706 departs LHR 0755 arrives LCA 1430.
Return (Saturday 9th May 2026 )
British Airways from Larnaca to London Heathrow. Flight BA0707 departs LCA 1800 arrives LHR 2100.
Tours 2 and 3
Flight details will be advised when British Airways publishes its LHR/LCA schedule for October 2026.
Please contact me if you would like to discuss travel options, for example flying to or from a different airport or making the journey by rail or driving. I cannot arrange travel for you, but I can advise on what might work best.
How to book this tour
Please contact me by phone or email, or use the enquiry form on the Contact page on the website to check availability. When I confirm a place is available, please complete the booking form to reserve your place.
Once I have confirmed a tour is proceeding I advise clients to arrange flights and confirm travel arrangements to me. Please do not arrange flights before I have confirmed your place and that the tour is proceeding.
Full payment must be made 10 weeks before the tour starts, invoices will be sent out 12 weeks before the tour starts. At this point you will need to provide your insurance details (name of insurer, policy number, 24 hour emergency telephone numbers), outbound/inbound travel arrangements and any dietary requirements.
More about my Cyprus Wine Tour
The third largest island in the Mediterranean, Cyprus was one of the first places where wine was first made, with archaeological evidence from the 4th Century BC. For centuries ‘nama’, which was renamed ‘Commandaria’ at the time of the Crusades was famous throughout Europe, the first choice for monarchs and nobility. Three centuries of Ottoman rule put Cyprus behind other wine producing countries, and it was only in the late 20th Century that the country began to establish a reputation for top quality wine, and we could not be visiting at a better time to experience the excitement among winemakers that their wines are being recognised internationally.
Cyprus has four PGI regional classifications for wine, and seven PDOs (appellations) which have very specific requirements regarding the altitude of vineyards, the yield of grapes harvested and the age of vines. While the Commandaria PDO is the most famous (Commandaria is a sweet, concentrated wine made from raisinated grapes which may or may not be fortified), the others reflect different terroirs and wine styles and showcase the wide variety of wines made in Cyprus today.
While Cyprus’s initial wine rennaissance was driven by plantings of internation varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Syrah, far more focus is now going on native grapes, of which there are many. Mavro is the most widely planted indigenous black grape, and is experiencing a rennaissance in terms of the quality of wines being made from old vines planted at high altitudes. Maratheftiko and Yiannoudi are very much in the ascendant, producing red wines of great complexity and cellaring potential.
Cyprus’s principal white wine grape variety is Xynisteri, which is wonderfully adapted to dry, windy conditions and high altitudes. It responds well to different styles of winemaking and may one day challenge Assyrtiko as the classic grape variety of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Our visits will enable us to engage with the people who are driving Cyprus’s wine reputation forward, who have invested their time, money and considerable expertise in developing some wonderful terroir driven wines. On each visit we will have a chance to talk about the background to the estate, to see the vineyard or winery close up and of course to taste the wines that best demonstrate what is unique and special about the location.
Gastronomy will be a wonderful feature of our tours. Cyrus is home to the cauliflower (!) and possibly halloumi cheese, and our meals will reflect the abundant natural resources of fruit and vegetables, dairy and meat, and of course the sea. On each day of the tour we will enjoy a meal together at a winery or top quality local restaurant, but we will have some evenings free in Limassol to explore local tavernas and drink in the local atmosphere.
We are staying in Limassol, on the south eastern side of the island. A beautiful seaside town, looked over by the Kolossi castle, its museums, parks and hostelries make it a wonderful place to wander around. Our hotel, the Alasia, while not on the sea front, offers an oasis of calm and comfort, with its pool side bar and spa.
More about Tim Syrad Wine Tours
Since 1997 I have escorted over 150 groups of people on wine tours, visiting more than 40 wine regions in Europe and the New World. My clients keep coming back year after year because in addition to tastings and visits we really do meet the people who make the wine and tend the vines.
I pride myself in offering tours that are informative, imaginative and enjoyable. I keep group sizes manageable so that we spend our time appreciating our visits, not getting on and off the bus or queuing for the loos! I personally escort all of my tours, and I ensure as much as possible of the money my clients pay is spent on great food and wine, and good hotels. I believe you can combine appreciating fabulous wine with relaxation and laughter, which is why so many of my clients come on tour with me every year. More than 100 people have come on at least 10 of my tours.
There is a friendly and welcoming atmosphere on every tour from the start, and I am proud that many friendships have been made between the people who come on tour with me.
For more information about me, my next tours, and previous tours I have run, and to find out what my clients say (some of whom have been coming on tour with me since 2001) please explore the website.
For more information about this tour, or to book a place, please contact me
By phone (020 7060 4529)
Or email (tim@timsyradwinetours.com)
Or use the online enquiry form on the Contact page