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Hi everyone! I'm back after something of a hiatus having changed jobs and being somewhat preoccupied with life. Hope everyone is well.

We are taking an impromptu trip to the Mornington Peninsula and I wondered if anyone had suggestions as to which wineries we should visit.

So far I've seen good things about Mooroduc Estate and Yabby Lake, but wondered where else we should visit.

Any suggestions would be welcome!

Thanks so much,
P

A few more to add to your list:
Main Ridge
Paringa Estate
Ten Minutes by Tractor
Kooyong/Port Phillip
Stonier

If you are driving your Tesla, you can charge up while tasting at Paradigm Estate I recently discovered. Excellent facility good to very good wines.

Lunch at Foxey's Hangout is an excellent option. And their wines just keep getting better too.

Stonier gets kind of busy, maybe call ahead and check they are pouring the reserves on the day you attend.

Superb wine quality and friendly service at Eldridge Estate - short hop from Foxey's Hangout.

Have a great trip.

via collins wrote:If you are driving your Tesla, you can charge up while tasting at Paradigm Estate I recently discovered. Excellent facility good to very good wines.

Lunch at Foxey's Hangout is an excellent option. And their wines just keep getting better too.

Stonier gets kind of busy, maybe call ahead and check they are pouring the reserves on the day you attend.

Superb wine quality and friendly service at Eldridge Estate - short hop from Foxey's Hangout.

Have a great trip.

Eldridge also has a new Tesla charger.

I second many of the above - Moorooduc Estate, Eldridge Estate and Main Ridge. Paringa is glorious for lunch (and wine). I'd also include Tuck's Ridge and Montalto - but there's plenty of other good options as well.

Merricks General Store is a good little spot with multiple tiny mornington producers

Quealy wines has some really good wines (and some different ones!) as well as Polperro.

+1 for Montalto, across the range are really cracking wines
Ten Minutes by Tractor as has been mentioned

Point Leo Estate Restaurant & Laura has just won new restaurant of the year and has 1 and 2 hats (respectively)

Quealy would be my tip. There are a lot of places that are slick, have a nice restaurant and look well manacured, but they can be I bit soulless. Not only does Quealy have interesting wine, it’s got that small time feel. Really depends what sort of day you want.

via collins wrote:If you are driving your Tesla, you can charge up while tasting at Paradigm Estate I recently discovered. Excellent facility good to very good wines.

If Tesla charging is important, Eldridge Estate also have those facilities!

* Michel already beat me to it!

For me, must visits are: Main Ridge, Moorooduc, Montalto, Eldridge & Yabby Lake.

Recently had a nice rustic Italian meal at Morning Sun Vineyard - was pleasantly surprising!

Thanks all. Just so happen to be here too? Mooorooduc yesterday was great. Their McIntyre Pinot 2016 our highlight. Estate Pinot a close 2nd.

Any advice for dinner places?

Cactus wrote:Thanks all. Just so happen to be here too? Mooorooduc yesterday was great. Their McIntyre Pinot 2016 our highlight. Estate Pinot a close 2nd.

Any advice for dinner places?

Ten Minutes by Tractor / Petit Tracteur

Doot Doot Doot / Rare Hare @ Jackalope

Polperro

Prancing Horse Estate is one of the few Australian wineries that also has holdings in Burgundy. If you organise a tasting and ask nicely the owner will take you through his full range of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from both the Mornington Penninsula and Burgundy........ that said I suspect that he gauges the likelihood of the group spending money. I could be wrong but I don't think the younger group of people waiting outside received the same treatment.

I was there with my Godfather who bought several cases of Burgundy at $125 per bottle so I think he was glad that he took us through the full range. My spend was significantly less.

So thanks for all the recomendations. Went to most. Favourites are Moorooduc, Main Ridge and Eldridge. We sat on the balcony at Eldridge late on the day and drank a bottle of Pinot. Everything was perfect, the temp, the view, the company and the wine. Point Leo was what we thought it would be. Lotsa money spent on a winery and like moths to the flame everyone has to see whats going on. Thought their wine was bang average and wanted $70 a throw for it. I had high hopes for Quealy, but to be frank, I thought the wine was a bit meh. It certainly was different, in grapes and techniques. Glad we went but not rushing to buy their wine.

Cactus wrote:So thanks for all the recomendations. Went to most. Favourites are Moorooduc, Main Ridge and Eldridge. We sat on the balcony at Eldridge late on the day and drank a bottle of Pinot. Everything was perfect, the temp, the view, the company and the wine. Point Leo was what we thought it would be. Lotsa money spent on a winery and like moths to the flame everyone has to see whats going on. Thought their wine was bang average and wanted $70 a throw for it. I had high hopes for Quealy, but to be frank, I thought the wine was a bit meh. It certainly was different, in grapes and techniques. Glad we went but not rushing to buy their wine.

I had the same experience at Pt Leo. Beautiful setting, building and sculpture park. However I found their wine and food to be overpriced and gimmicky. If their wine was sold at half the price that it was pitched at it would have been much more reasonable.