Leisure Time

In between gardening, foraging in the tip shop and herding escapee cattle back into the paddocks, we like to spend some of our leisure time checking out the local attractions.  And we've managed to land ourselves right on the edge of a beautiful wine region.  Just like our previous home in the Perth Hills, we've lots of lovely wineries to explore.  Just as well we like wine huh!!

This weekend we had our very good friends M and N stay with us for a night. So we decided to take them for lunch at Green Door Wines.  Apart from doing some stonking good wines (their Chardonnay is a standout along with their Tempranillo) they also do amazing platters for lunch.  We ordered the Mile High which comes with our favourite, local soft cheese, Halls Suzette.  If you love soft rind cheeses, it's worth your while hunting out some Halls Suzette.  Lovely, delightfuly creamy and packed full of flavour.  Green Door use very local, high quality produce on their platters. They're worth going out of your way for.  Oh....and we tried the pastizzi this time. Small crispy pastry parcels of goodness.  Yum, yum, yum!!

Green Door Wines

Halls Family Dairy – Proudly Dairy Farming Since 1980

We were lucky to be blessed with a glorious, sunny day so we sat at one of their outside tables.  Check out the views.

Before we knew it, a good three or four hours of the day had completely disappeared.  But what a way to while away a few hours.

Another winery we've been keen to check out is Talisman Wines which has only recently opened it's cellar door.  Our very good friend G visited Talisman with us when he stayed a few weekends ago. Talisman makes many award-winning wines.  We like all of them but have a soft spot for their Shiraz and Chardonnay.  Oh, and if you think we're slightly barking going for Chardonnays, modern Chardonnays are nothing like the wines of the 80s.  If you've not tried one for a while, get out there and get tasting.  I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Home - Talisman Wines

This is the view from the Talisman tasting room.  What's not to love.

The only problem with wine tasting, aside from getting tipsy, is that....it can be a wee bit expensive on the old hip pocket!!  Just saying.