Healesville
Healesville VIC 3777 is nestled at the eastern end of the Yarra Valley, roughly an hour’s drive north from Melbourne along the Maroondah Highway. Vineyards still dot the landscape as you approach, but the ranges start to close in pretty quickly — before you know it, the wineries disappear behind stands of tall trees and […]
Yarra Glen
Yarra Glen hangs out on the western side of Victoria’s Yarra Valley, where the town itself just dissolves into vineyards, green paddocks and country roads that seem to just go on forever. It’s a bit over an hour from Melbourne, so close you can easily pop out for the day, but far enough that the […]
Yering
Yering sits pretty comfortably in the Yarra Valley, about an hour outside of Melbourne’s central business district. Drive down Melba Highway, and you’ll see vineyards and old estates popping up between stretches of wide open farmland, with the Yarra Ranges stretching out beyond. To be honest, there’s barely a town centre to speak of, and […]
Dixons Creek
Dixon’s Creek stretches along the Melba Highway in the northern Yarra Valley, which is roughly 60 kilometres from Melbourne. Rolling vineyards sprawl over the low hills, with cellar doors popping up at the end of the long country driveways, and the Great Dividing Range keeps stretching out as far as the eye can see. You […]
Gruyere
Gruyere lies just beyond Coldstream and Wandin in the lovely Yarra Valley, where vineyards wrap themselves round low hills and occasional paddocks still interrupt the vines. There’s no main street to speak of, no real feeling of arrival — just a cellar-door sign popping up at a gate, the vines disappearing over a ridge, and […]
Seville Hill
Seville Hill Winery is a place you’ll find at 8 Paynes Road in Seville — where the edge of Melbourne’s eastern suburbs finally gives way to the picturesque Upper Yarra Valley’s vineyards and orchards. It’s a small outfit, really a family winery rather than some big commercial place: people head out here for the Cellar […]