Khun Malee vineyard

Khun Malee Vineyard is a family-run grape farm in Saraburi’s Muak Lek district, one of a handful of small vineyards that have taken advantage of the area’s cooler hill microclimate to grow grapes at all in tropical Thailand. The farm covers roughly 9.6 hectares of vines on sloping ground, small enough to walk in an hour but planted with enough rows to feel like a genuine working vineyard rather than a roadside photo stop.

Visits centre on walking the vine corridors and, depending on the season, sampling grapes straight off the vine. The farm sells its own grape-based products on site — fresh grapes when in season, plus grape juice, jam, and grape toffee — rather than running a formal cellar-door wine-tasting operation. This is a lower-key experience than Thailand’s larger commercial wineries nearby (PB Valley, GranMonte, and others cluster around the Khao Yai side of the region); Khun Malee is closer to visiting a local farm than touring a vineyard estate.

Insider Tip: Grape sampling depends entirely on where the vines are in their harvest cycle — call ahead (0 3634 1159) if fresh grapes are the reason for your visit, since an off-season trip means vine-walking without fruit.

Muak Lek’s grape-growing cluster exists because of elevation and cooler nights compared to the surrounding lowlands — the same conditions that make the district a stopover for travellers heading to Khao Yai National Park. Don’t expect European vineyard scale: these are small family operations, and the closest comparable page on this site, Amphoe Muak Lek Grape Garden, sits a few kilometres away and is worth combining into the same half-day loop.

Khun Malee sits within Saraburi’s Muak Lek area, roughly two hours from Bangkok via Highway 2, and pairs naturally with a wider Khao Yai foothills day trip.