Today was our wine tour with Australian Wine Tours. We were picked up at St. Paul’s cathedral which is on Flinders Street right across from Federation Square. Our guide was John (not Ron) Murphy and we traveled with 19 other winos to the Yarra Valley. The Yarra Valley is much like the Okanagan known for its wine growing but it has been established since the mid 1800s. It took about an hour to get to our first winery, Punt Road. Here we were given some wine tasting instruction and were treated to some Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cab Franc, and a Shiraz. Then we were off to Balgownie Estate for our next tasting. We had a Cuvée Brut (sparkling Chardonnay), Merlot, Shiraz and then a sparkling Shiraz which was quite good. We had a great lunch here, as well. Mary had Flathead(fish and chips) and I had an excellent lamb shank ( when in Australia, right?). Our next stop was at Yering Estate, a much smaller, laid back, family run winery. All the wine was good and they also make a tasty cider with Pink Lady apples. Our final stop was at Chandon, a winery that specializes in champagne. Beautiful building and surroundings and an aging cellar with 70000 bottles. In total we had 30 tastings! We were dropped off back our staring point, walked back to our place and crashed....at least I did.
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