WHAT I OFFER
Oak Drive Co. is a private wine tour and driver service in the Margaret River Region, run by me, Bianchi. Before starting it, I spent more than twenty years in hospitality, mostly in boutique and luxury hotels, with the last six years in the Margaret River wine industry, including time working at cellar doors here in the region. I know these wineries from behind the counter as well as in front of it, and I know many of the people who run them.
Hotels taught me that a good day is mostly made of small things: noticing early what guests actually wants, remembering the detail someone mentioned in passing, and sorting out a problem before anyone knew there was one. I bring the same habits to every tour.
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Most days are about wine, because that’s what draws people here. But this is also a region of karri forest, limestone caves and long stretches of coast. Boranup Forest, the water at Gnarabup or Eagle Bay, the lighthouse at Cape Leeuwin, a farmers market on a Saturday morning. If wine isn’t the point of your day, it doesn’t have to be.
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The Mercedes-Benz Valente seats up to seven, and it’s only ever your group on board. No strangers. Tours and private driver days start from four hours, available from Monday to Sunday with pick-up from wherever you’re staying across Margaret River, Dunsborough, Yallingup, Busselton, Augusta, Cowaramup, Wilyabrup and everywhere in between. I also run transfers to and from Perth and Busselton Margaret River Airport.
WHY I DRIVE
Wine is what first brought me to Margaret River, but the place itself is why I stayed. It’s a strange kind of town. It keeps growing, and yet it still feels small: a community where people know each other, and where a quick trip into town rarely stays quick. At the same time, there’s always something happening. Each autumn the world’s best surfers arrive at Surfers Point, writers and readers fill the town in May, and in spring artists across the region open their studios to the public. And then there’s the landscape. I’ve driven the same roads here more times than I can count, and it still catches me off guard.
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What actually got me into this business wasn’t the wine, though. It was watching visitors struggle with a problem I didn’t expect. There’s no shortage of information about Margaret River, but the region is vast, and every corner of it is particular in its own way: which cellar door, which forest, which beach, which cave, in what order, on what day. Even with everything available online, people still arrive unsure how to actually spend their time here.
I started Oak Drive Co. to be the answer to that: someone who already knows the region well enough to make the choice easier and the logistics seamless. What you get is what I’d want if I were the one booking. That’s the only real standard I hold myself to.
Ways to Travel
Oak Drive Co. offers private wine tours, a private driver, and transfers across the Margaret River Region.
Personalised, planned around you. I build the day - wineries, cellar doors, pace - you just enjoy it.
You choose where. I drive. Wineries, breweries, restaurants, or wherever else the day takes you.
Point-to-point, across the Margaret River region, and long-distance transfers to and from Perth.
★★★★★ 5.0 average rating on Google and TripAdvisor.
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This image is by Russell Ord Photography courtesy of margaretriver.com
Image courtesy of margaretriver.com
This image is by Russell Ord Photography courtesy of margaretriver.com
Every Season
Summer is hot and dry, and the coast is where the region gathers. From Meelup and Bunker Bay to Gracetown, Prevelly, Hamelin Bay, and Flinders Bay. Toward the end of it, the first grapes come off the vines; vintage usually starts with the whites in late February, and the wineries start smelling like fermentation instead of flowers.
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Autumn is when the reds are picked, through March and into April, and most people who live here will tell you it's the best time to visit. The crowds have thinned, the light goes gold earlier in the evening, and the sunsets over the water get a particular glassy quality you don't see in summer.
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Winter is wet. July is the wettest month by far, but it's not a season to avoid. The forests hold their green, the whales pass close to the coast from June right through into spring, and there's a real case for a log fire and a glass of red being the best version of a Margaret River afternoon, not the worst.
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Spring turns the wildflowers loose, usually from August through November - thousands of species across the region, some found nowhere else on earth. The beaches fill back up before summer does, and the wineries that spent winter quiet start setting extra tables again.
Four seasons, four different versions of the same place. None of them is the right one.
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