‘Let’s pack up everything we own and move to the country’.
We managed to be in the region when this cellar door was open (they’re currently only open one weekend per month), and thank goodness we fluked that! This place is just delightful.
Curly Flat
Legacies, family history and Chewie.
This vineyard has special ties for our family (as I’m sure many of yours), with bottles of Pinot and Chardonnay being shared with us by various family members.
Cope-Williams
An original in the region, Ice Cream & MI6!
Fun Fact: Cope-Williams is home to one of the (very) few Royal Tennis Courts in Australia (or Real Tennis Courts for the purists playing along at home). While there was no visit from M during our visit…
Rowanston on Track
The Man, The Winemaker, The Entertainer
One of those ‘are-you-sure-we-drove-into-the-right-place?-We’re-about-to-walk-into-someone’s-living-room!’ conversations you forcefully whisper to each other as you’re closing the car door, when in fact, you are both at the right place, and about to walk into someone's living room.
Cleveland Winery
Motel Stays & Wine in Mugs
We ate in the restaurant, retired to our room, cracked the bottle of Pinot we purchased, drank it out of our hotel mugs and proceeded to roll around the bed in laughter at Ali Wong’s Hard Knock Wife.
Parkside Winery Estate
Wood, Windy Roads and Wine
There’s something other wordly about driving into an estate. The long, tree lined road into a property, horses grazing on one side, tall grasses dancing at the hip in the wind, gravel crunching under tyre