Kadu
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KĀDU (pronounced Kaa-du) is the first premium wine offering from the Karnataka winery, also names Kadu Winery, of Sula Vineyards, India’s leading wine producer. Kādu, meaning “wild” in Kannada, is India’s first 'Wine for a Cause' as well as India's first 'Wildlife Wine' devoted to the cause of tiger conservation.
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Akhilesh
Alappuzha, India16 contributions
Nov 2019 • Friends
Around 60km from bangalore, a nice and unique place to explore with friends and family. Well maintained place with in house restaurant, offers variety of dishes.can explore wine tour and taste wines. Totally a full pack nice experience with good ambience especially in the evening.
Parking space also available.
Parking space also available.
Written 9 June 2020
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Sunil W
Bengaluru, India298 contributions
Feb 2022
Visited Domaine Sula with family for the first time, though I have done winery visits and wine testing in South Africa earlier.
It was fun to visit the place, our guide Dhanush was well versed and made the visit fun visit and educational.
The wine testing experience is really good.
The restaurant at this place Little Italy is great to have lunch.
You can spend 4 to 5 hrs. easily here enjoying the place and lot of Insta worth photo opportunities here.
It was fun to visit the place, our guide Dhanush was well versed and made the visit fun visit and educational.
The wine testing experience is really good.
The restaurant at this place Little Italy is great to have lunch.
You can spend 4 to 5 hrs. easily here enjoying the place and lot of Insta worth photo opportunities here.
Written 15 February 2022
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Mohammed S
2 contributions
Mar 2018 • Couples
Place is good to visit and witness winery tour . But restaurant doesn't seem to be up to the standard of heritage winery . Must improve . Cool place to visit on sunny day
Written 3 April 2018
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Satish K
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Nov 2017 • Family
I visited this place with my family, I lost my time and money. They took us for their wine factory where they hardly had any machinery working to show us. It was all, an old man blabbering about all chemical reactions that occur in wine extraction process. Another Joke was wine tasting, "KIRAN" - Do you know what you talk???.. God sake, Please go get some knowledge about what is wine tasting. You gave us a terrible explanation about wine while tasting!. Your management should think of finding an alternative for your position!
Written 12 December 2017
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arghya87
Bengaluru, India35 contributions
Dec 2014 • Friends
An excellent place for a day tour with your friends, family or loved one. Take a morning drive/ride on the smooth national highway to reach the destination(around 60KM).
The wine tour is very nominally charged(around INR 200), which covers the live wine making process and wine tasting (atleast 4 variety). You can throw all your questions regarding wines to the knowledgeable tour guide and he will happily explain you that. Post tour order your food and choice of wine in the only one but excellent restaurant. When your food is getting ready, meanwhile take a tour in the vineyard. If you are visiting during the harvesting season(Feb-Mar) then you will get nice grapes on the trees. Post lunch visit their shop and buy the wines you want. Heritage wines and very reasonably priced.
In other activities you can also try Grape stomping with some groovy music if you are visiting as a couple or a group of friends. But it is having a separate charge (I guess INR 500).
If you want to make your trip more interesting then take the way back via Manchanbele. Though the dam gate is closed; the 35KM stretch is having very beautiful landscape as it goes though villages and mountains.
The wine tour is very nominally charged(around INR 200), which covers the live wine making process and wine tasting (atleast 4 variety). You can throw all your questions regarding wines to the knowledgeable tour guide and he will happily explain you that. Post tour order your food and choice of wine in the only one but excellent restaurant. When your food is getting ready, meanwhile take a tour in the vineyard. If you are visiting during the harvesting season(Feb-Mar) then you will get nice grapes on the trees. Post lunch visit their shop and buy the wines you want. Heritage wines and very reasonably priced.
In other activities you can also try Grape stomping with some groovy music if you are visiting as a couple or a group of friends. But it is having a separate charge (I guess INR 500).
If you want to make your trip more interesting then take the way back via Manchanbele. Though the dam gate is closed; the 35KM stretch is having very beautiful landscape as it goes though villages and mountains.
Written 24 February 2015
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nat B
1 contribution
Jan 2019 • Solo
we wasted yesterday 1200/- for 3 persons its utter wastte no production even they dint inform us before billing its cheating.
Written 17 January 2019
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Kshitij G
32 contributions
Jan 2015 • Family
A friend suggested this place to me and we decided to take a 2 hour drive from Bangalore to the wineyard, I must say that it was a wonderful and learning experience.
Our host Mr. Balaji was a very knowledgeable person and he knew his wines very well. The wine tour and wine tasting was great and the hosts had arranged for a Grape stomping for us as well that was a lot of fun.
The lunch was included in the package and it was a 5 course meal. The food was well prepared and was tasty.
However the only thing which we found off-putting was the speed of service, that may be mostly because of the huge crowd on the long weekend, but otherwise no complaints with this experinece. I would highly recommend this place for people of all age groups
Our host Mr. Balaji was a very knowledgeable person and he knew his wines very well. The wine tour and wine tasting was great and the hosts had arranged for a Grape stomping for us as well that was a lot of fun.
The lunch was included in the package and it was a 5 course meal. The food was well prepared and was tasty.
However the only thing which we found off-putting was the speed of service, that may be mostly because of the huge crowd on the long weekend, but otherwise no complaints with this experinece. I would highly recommend this place for people of all age groups
Written 27 January 2015
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I_Charu
Bengaluru, India152 contributions
Jan 2017 • Friends
A different kinda outing
It takes about 90 minutes from Bangalore to reach Heritage Wineries. At the winery, the visitors are provided a guided tour through the winery where the entire wine manufacturing process is explained and the vineyard. The tour ticket is Rs. 250 per person. The tour concludes with wine tasting. Mr. Shashidhar did the wine tasting session for us and we tried out the various varities they have - Shiraz, Cabarnet, White Wine 2000, Twist etc. The wine guide will regale with tips on how to hold the glass, how to swirl, sniff, taste and the works. He does it with such enthusiasm that you cannot help but feel he loves his job!
There is a small restaurant in the premises. They have a pretty good menu but the service takes a long time. They warn the visitors upfront about the order taking 40-45 minutes. We went on a holiday when it was extremly crowded. The food was good especially chilli prawns, prawns butter fry, paneer tikka and chicken malai tikka. The main course is Ok. It took nearly 45 minutes to get the food and we were famished by the time it arrived. Once can leave the place after the tour and eat elsewhere at someplace on the highway but we liked the open ambience and wanted to eat there. The staff and wine guide told us that weekends and public holidays are usually crowded. It is a different sort of experience even if you are not a alcohol/wine drinker. Our purpose was to go for a long drive and a lunch outing with friends. And even though I am not a wine lover, I enjoyed the place. Overall, it is a nice place to spend about half a day.
It takes about 90 minutes from Bangalore to reach Heritage Wineries. At the winery, the visitors are provided a guided tour through the winery where the entire wine manufacturing process is explained and the vineyard. The tour ticket is Rs. 250 per person. The tour concludes with wine tasting. Mr. Shashidhar did the wine tasting session for us and we tried out the various varities they have - Shiraz, Cabarnet, White Wine 2000, Twist etc. The wine guide will regale with tips on how to hold the glass, how to swirl, sniff, taste and the works. He does it with such enthusiasm that you cannot help but feel he loves his job!
There is a small restaurant in the premises. They have a pretty good menu but the service takes a long time. They warn the visitors upfront about the order taking 40-45 minutes. We went on a holiday when it was extremly crowded. The food was good especially chilli prawns, prawns butter fry, paneer tikka and chicken malai tikka. The main course is Ok. It took nearly 45 minutes to get the food and we were famished by the time it arrived. Once can leave the place after the tour and eat elsewhere at someplace on the highway but we liked the open ambience and wanted to eat there. The staff and wine guide told us that weekends and public holidays are usually crowded. It is a different sort of experience even if you are not a alcohol/wine drinker. Our purpose was to go for a long drive and a lunch outing with friends. And even though I am not a wine lover, I enjoyed the place. Overall, it is a nice place to spend about half a day.
Written 28 January 2017
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JPM
Bengaluru, India21 contributions
Mar 2016 • Family
I went there with my family assuming my kids would be able to enjoy the grape farm. Unfortunately the vineyard is very small in size and we could locate only plants over there, no grapes at all. Guide said that harvesting happens in mid of Feb. Lunch is OK. Vine tasting part of this tour may tuned to be boring if you are not really fond of vine Nothing really excites otherwise here. This place takes 2 hours drive from Bangalore. It is not really worth the time or money.
Written 25 March 2016
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Somethingtraveler
Bengaluru, India2 contributions
Jan 2016 • Friends
We expected to have a good time with about 10 of us at the place! However, Heritage vineyards had something else in store for us. Since we were hungry we started with the restaurant. Not only was the service bad (3.5 hours for lunch??), but even the food wasn't any great. He took 30 minutes to serve wine, and another 30 to get a chapati! A 45 minute wait for the cheque concluded the lunch. Of course we skipped the wine tasting given the experience. I strictly recommend a "DO NOT GO" for this place. It is overrated, highly overrated!
Written 25 January 2016
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is it open for visitors now due to corona pandemic?
Written 13 October 2020
I booked through thrillophila and it was 200 rs per head. If booked in the winery, they charge 400 per head.
Written 25 October 2019
Yes you can. There's open space next to the restaurant where children can run around. The vineyard will be of interest to them, specially if you are lucky to find some bunch of grapes. Rest of the tour might not be much fun for children unless you plan to do some grape stomping.
Written 22 July 2019
Hey, could you tell us what are travel options available from Bangalore to this place.?
Written 4 March 2019
Hello Folks, we are planning to visit the place, unfortunately we can reach there by 2 PM as per our itinerary.
Is this time suffes to explore or visit winery?
Thanks for your Response. :☺️
Written 1 September 2018
Yes you can and 2 hrs is sufficient.the winery tour is not operational.the owners need to say so and inform.else it amounts to deception.sorry.
Written 16 October 2018
Hi
You can call them up on the number in their website. We however went without booking on a holiday and it wasn't really crowded. We had however called up to ensure that they were open and operating. When we visited the Winery wasn't functioning which was a little disappointing. The ambience and the place was good. Enjoy if and when you go👍👍
Written 1 October 2017
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