Wine Tour

Went on the Yarra Value Wine Tour today.

We visited four Wineries during the day. The first was Yering Station (Yering is the region of the Yarra Valley).

The guide showed explained the steps in wine tasting. We had about 45 minutes at that winery.

We moved on to Balgownie Estate Winery. We had seven wines to taste here. After the tasting we had lunch in there restaurant. A mix of Americans, British, Portuguese , Italian and Australians on the tour (20 people).

The next stop was Yering Farm Winery. This is a much smaller operation and they don't sell to many place except restaurants and door and mail order sales. Some of there wines were in my opinion some of the best. The best thing they had to taste was not wine but there apple cider. Haven't had such a lovely cider in years.

The last stop was Domaine Chandon for a tour of the winery and a visit to the Riddling Room where the wine is stored during fermentation and it is rotated to collect the yeast in the neck of the bottle.

It was about 14 degrees and we had wine tasting and cheese and chutney.

As we were about to leave an almost tropical storm hide us so we waited till it started to ease off so we could run to the bus.

Got some wine to pack to bring back with me. The Winery was selling a very neat solution (Wineskin). It is a thick bottle shaped plastic bag lined with bubble wrap and a watertight (wine-tight) seal at the bottom to prevent leakage if there is a breakage.