Spent the day on a wine tour around the Margaret River region with Wine for Dudes. As a region MR produces a high end wine so the wineries are generally small, family run affairs. The area is also famous for its big wave surfing spots so a lot of the owners of the wineries are surfers / former surfers. This time, unlike our tour in Marlborough, we had a full mini bus so it was a bit more fun. We visited:
- Windance wines. Very nice unoaked Chardonnay and Cabernet Shiraz.
- Hay Shed Hill / Pitchfork – buffet lunch and experimented with mixing our own blends of Shiraz and Cabernet wine. Really liked the Semillon Sauvignon Blanc.
- Gabriel chocolate – quite similar to Haigh’s chocolates that we went around the other day but much smaller (almost a 1 man show). They are the only chocolate company in WA that imported cacao beans directly and does every part of the chocolate making process themselves. Bought ourselves a very tasty bar of Ghanaian chocolate. Interesting to taste the cacao beans themselves.
- Margaret river dairy company – a cheese factory.
- The Grove / Margaret River distillery – tasted lots of different liqueurs. Favourite shooter was butterscotch / Turkish delight / cream mix.
- Saracen estates winery and brewery. Very nice Cab Sav but too pricey for us ($85 a bottle).
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