A trip to the wineries

A group of us, 16 brats, made a trip down to Southern Highlands. The whole day event encompassed 5 wineries and a picnic at a small town in Mittagong. First stop Howards Lane Winery where we had a taste of freshly picked chardonnays and a well-explained history of how vineyards started in this area. Two gross-looking electrocuted wombats greeted us at the entrance of the vineyard, placed there on sticks intentionally as a warning to other animals. We then had the pleasure of tasting wine in a cozy cottage-like hut with cheese and biscuits as breaky for some.

Next stop down the road was the Mundrakoona winery. Also a small winery as the first, they produce dessert wine of which most of us found was very nice. We almost wiped them clean of the dessert wines.

Lunch was at McVitty Grove. Unfortunately they only had 3 wines for tasting as they have sold out most of their vintage wines. Saint Derycke's Winery had better choices, though made by a Kiwi, we were assured Kiwis make good chardonnays. =) Final stop was the oldest winery in the area, Joadja.

I've been to many wineries down in Victoria, mostly in Mornington, but I don't think I've drank/sip/tasted/spat so much wine as I did on this trip. But it was all worth it to have added one Cabernet Sangiovese, one Autumn Riesling, one boysenberry liquer nicknamed Brambelini and one dessert wine to my collection. Not to mention the level of sugar and alcohol after all this...but I was deinitely not drunk, thank you very much.