W I NTE R W I N E PAS SP ORT
12 JUNE -31 AUGUST
A journey with a passport is always an
adventure. Taste, purchase and receive
your Riedel reward or just add to your
stamp collection and go in the draw to win.
W I L LOW CRE E K VIN E YA R D
James Halliday
Australian Wine Companion ?07
SA LIX SU CCE S S
166 Balnarring Road Merricks North
Victoria Australia 3926 Mel Ref: 162 H9
Phone: 5989 7448 Salix: 5989 7640
Open: for lunch 7 days and dinner fri/sat
www.willow-creek.com.au
GOLDEN PLATE AWARDS
Best Chef
Best Customer Service
Best Restaurant
The Overall Winner 2006-2007!
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pen insula
For winemakers the beginning of winter is a up on six months of maintenance while waiting
kind of year?s end. The end of the growing for the start of pruning somewhere around the
season as well as the completion of harvest. beginning of June.
wine country
Ferments are finished, some wine is now put While the vines outside are entering their winter
into barrels for a sleepy winter of maturation dormant period things are warming up indoors.
while some waits in stainless steel for bottling
trucks to arrive in spring.
It?s time to grab a glass and head to the hills,
or the plains, and enjoy winter produce such
Things have slowed down to a comfortable as cheese, shellfish, beef, mushrooms, apples,
pace in the vineyard, in a nut shell they are avocadoes, olives, pears, persimmons, quince
and rhubarb. Try slow cooked, rustic and
hanging round waiting for the leaves to fall roasted flavours with savoury, seductive and off ? they?ve packed up the nets, cleaned the textured Mornington Peninsula wine. tractors, washed crates, cleared out the gutters
and drains in the hope of some rain and caught -Emily Davenport
Multi Award Winning Fare
Salix Restaurant, perched over the 50-60 or for the
spectacular and ever changing vines, boasts larger function of
all the Peninsula has to offer. 100-120 guests.
In spacious & comfortable surrounds Salix Salix offers a great
restaurant & cellar door caf? are opened everyday package with a group
elegant, sophisticated
you envisaged. Salix?
day/event is everything
will work with you, to
year round for lunch & Friday & Saturday evenings, of caring staff who
except Xmas day & Good Friday. The restaurant
menu is a la carte; their focus is on local produce, ensure your special
with a refined touch, such as Western Port whiting,
Red Hill quinces, hand picked berries, Artisan
cheeses, Peninsula beef & Flinders mussels
Experience the cellar door caf? and order at the surroundings,
bar for a light & casual, family friendly menu. The breathtaking view
over the winery
cellar door caf? offers dishes to taste or to share
combined with the
as well as affordable main course dishes. There
totally professional
is a deck area looking out over the vineyard or a service and the fresh
cozy fire for chilly winter months. innovative cuisine will not only make your wedding
day a totally unique and memorable occasion, but
also a completely relaxing one. Phone. 5989 7640
Taste the Difference
at Tuerong
Dromana Estate's 'Cafe at Tuerong' is a
place for all seasons - great to cosy up in
winter with open fires and hearty fare and
air conditioned in summer to beat the heat
and with a fabulous and friendly beer garden.
All year enjoy the wonderful gardens and
beautiful views and food from award winning
chef, Chris, who trained in England and has worked all over the world.
This lovely venue has made a name for itself with its casual friendly
style and affordable, clean and fresh flavours.. Everything is made on
the premises - all the bread , chutneys, relishes and pastas - and you
can taste the difference.
It is family friendly - safe for the kids - and parents dine in peace
whilst the kids play on the lawn and under the big weeping tree.
Events planned for this year include Father's Day with goody bags
for all the dads and raffles with proceeds going to charity (Mother's
Day was a great success) and Christmas will be a Family fun day with
activities for the kids
Remember the Cafe at Tuerong for your special
occasions and private parties, wonderful for
weddings too.
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