TRAVEL TIPS Time from Melbourne: from 55 mins Handy travel sites: Discover attractions, dining hot spots and accommodation deals: visitvictoria.com/Regions/ Mornington-Peninsula To map your journey by car, visitvictoria.com/Information/Route-planner Public transport: Take a train to Frankston for connecting bus services to the Mornington Peninsula For a full list of services and to plan your journey vline.com.au ABOUT THE REGION Straddling two bays this patchwork of green is dotted with winery-side restaurants welcoming cellar doors, offering cool climate wines and award-winning meals. Home to sublime olive oil, artisan cheeses and farm gate fruit, vegetables and home-baked goodies, this is a food tourist’s playground. SEE AND DO Mornington Peninsula Attraction Pass Four of the Mornington Peninsula’s top operators have created a joint pass to make choosing what to do that bit easier. emmp.net.au Horseback Winery Tours Enjoy a long horseback ride in the heart of the Mornington Peninsula’s food and wine region, travelling through famous neighbouring wineries, restaurants and attractions. 356 Shands Rd, Main Ridge horsebackwinerytours.com.au 7UHH 6XU¿QJ Victoria’s newest aerial adventure incorporates climbing through the native forest canopy surrounded by 100 year-old Messmate Eucalyptus and gliding through the trees on a 10 metre high zip-line and an eight metre Tarzan swing. WUHHVXU¿QJFRPDX Your guide to the Mornington Peninsula For 17 delicious days during an exciting festival period, we celebrate the best of our regional food and wine at our picturesque regions, from Victoria’s pristine beaches to our vast surrounds. Get to know real Victorians who dedicate their lives to making great food and wine – delight in the best of the season and the boundless imagination of our farmers, chefs and winemakers. MELBOURNE FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL REGIONAL WEEKEND
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TRAVEL TIPS
Time from Melbourne: from 55 mins
Handy travel sites: Discover attractions, dining hot spots and accommodation deals: visitvictoria.com/Regions/Mornington-Peninsula
To map your journey by car, visitvictoria.com/Information/Route-planner
Public transport: Take a train to Frankston for connecting bus services to the Mornington Peninsula
For a full list of services and to plan your journey vline.com.au
ABOUT THE REGION
Straddling two bays this patchwork of green is dotted with winery-side restaurants welcoming cellar doors, offering cool climate wines and award-winning meals. Home to sublime olive oil, artisan cheeses and farm gate fruit, vegetables and home-baked goodies, this is a food tourist’s playground.
SEE AND DO
Mornington Peninsula Attraction Pass Four of the Mornington Peninsula’s top operators have created a joint pass to make choosing what to do that bit easier. emmp.net.au
Horseback Winery Tours Enjoy a long horseback ride in the heart of the Mornington Peninsula’s food and wine region, travelling through famous neighbouring wineries, restaurants and attractions. 356 Shands Rd, Main Ridgehorsebackwinerytours.com.au
Victoria’s newest aerial adventure incorporates climbing through the native forest canopy surrounded by 100 year-old Messmate Eucalyptus and gliding through the trees on a 10 metre high zip-line and an eight metre Tarzan swing.
Your guide to the Mornington Peninsula For 17 delicious days during an exciting festival period, we celebrate the best of our
regional food and wine at our picturesque regions, from Victoria’s pristine beaches to our vast surrounds. Get to know real Victorians who dedicate their lives to making great food
and wine – delight in the best of the season and the boundless imagination of our farmers, chefs and winemakers.
MELBOURNE FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL
REGIONAL WEEKEND
FRIDAY 15 MARCH
REGIONAL WORLD’S LONGEST LUNCH – SORRENTO
Enjoy a lavish three-course lunch on Sorrento foreshore with local produce from Loquat restaurant, Sorrento Catering Company, Stringers Stores and The Baths restaurant. Over $36,000 raised for local children to date.
Venue: The Baths 3278 Point Nepean Rd, Sorrento Time: 12:00pm – 4:00pmCost: $110 Bookings: 03 5984 1500Website: thebaths.com.au
REGIONAL WORLD’S LONGEST LUNCH – FRANKSTON
Join us for our Regional World’s Longest Lunch, Living Art, where cuisine and art will combine for an entertaining degustation dining experience for art and food lovers alike.
Venue: Frankston Arts Centre 27-35 Davey St, Frankston Time: 12:00pm – 4:00pm Cost: $125Bookings: 03 9784 1070Website: blacktiecatering.com.au
REGIONAL WORLD’S LONGEST LUNCH – RED HILL
Four decades of dedication culminate in the
exciting group of chefs and winemakers with a spectacular feast for all to enjoy.
Guests will be welcomed to the historic Tuerong Homestead at Dromana Estate with six chefs and twelve wineries to proclaim the bounties of our wonderful landscape.
A tasting of Quealy’s amphora friulano and nebbiolo alongside simpatico Victorian and European wines. To follow, dinner inspired by the cuisine of the Adriatic coast, home to an ancient wine culture.
Venue: Balnarring Vineyard and Merricks General Wine Store, 460 Frankston-Flinders Rd, MerricksTime: 4:00pm – 7:00pm, 7:00pm – 10:00pm Cost: $120 or $35 wine tasting only Bookings: 03 5983 2483Website: mgwinestore.com.au
SATURDAY 16 MARCH
A TUSCAN FEAST
Take your seat at our Italian table for an artisan lunch inspired by visiting chef Ciccio Francesco from Tuscany, where the traditions of local food, wine, culture and life are celebrated daily.
Meet the goats behind the prize-winning cheese at Main Ridge Dairy, sample their produce, then venture down to Saliz Restaurant for lunch, including more fabulous cheese, and Willow Creek wines.
Venue: Salix Restaurant 166 Balnarring Rd, Merricks North Time: 10:30am – 12:00pm 12:30pm – 2:30pmCost: $95 includes dairy tour, lunch and wines Bookings: 03 5989 7640Website: willow-creek.com.au
RED HILL UNEARTHED
Scratch below the surface and discover the essence of Red Hill through a visit to Endeavour Fern Gully, with dishes and wines
Venue: The Long Table Restaurant 159 Shoreham Rd, Red Hill South Cost: $85 includes walk, lunch and wine Bookings: 03 5989 2326Website: thelongtable.com.au
SUNDAY 17 MARCH
CHEEKY RASCAL’S CIDER TOUR
Join Australia’s most innovative cider makers, Cheeky Rascal Cider, for some tastings around our backyard, the Morning-ton Peninsula. Meet the makers, have lunch and T’Gallant and frolic through Sunny
Venue: Mornington Peninsula Cider Houses 1438 Mornington-Flinders Rd, Main Ridge Time: 8:30am – 6:00pm Cost: $99 includes guided bus tour, lunch and all tastings Bookings: 03 9001 9205Website: rebellowines.com.au
T’GALLIVANT IN GRIS PARADIS
Behind every great red grape, there’s often a luscious grey grape. Celebrate the spirit of pinot gris with a hands-on vineyard experience led by winemaker Kevin McCarthy, followed by an Alsace-inspired lunch.
Ramble with Montalto owners through the kitchen garden, orchard and vineyard at harvest, tasting as you go. Lunch will champion estate produce, and a take-home hamper will get you started.
Venue: Montalto 33 Shoreham Rd, Red Hill South Time: 11:00am – 4:00pm Cost: $90 Bookings: 03 5989 8412Website: montalto.com.au
CURRY AND TERROIR
Avani means Mother Earth in Sanskrit. Shashi and Devendra Singh of Avani Wines will host an extraordinary event to investigate and celebrate terroir and the contribution of
Venue: Avani 24 Stanley’s Rd, Red Hill Time: 11:30am – 3:30pm Cost: $120 includes tasting, lunch and wine Bookings: 03 9415 8262Website: avanisyrah.com.au
CICCHETTIE E OMBRE
The Cellar Door Kitchen at Port Phillip Estate will lead you on a journey through Venice, with cicchetti e ombre, Venetian style tapas, and Estate wine.
Venue: Port Phillip Estate 263 Red Hill Rd, Red Hill South Time: 12:00 – 2:30pm Cost: $65 Bookings: 03 5989 4444Website: portphillipestate.com.au
RESTAURANT EXPRESSVenture into regional Victoria and enjoy a signature lunch special from a range of Restaurants selected from The Age Good Food Guide 2013. $40 for two courses, a glass of Victorian wine and coffee or tea.
