Mmmmm... Wine!

There are several areas around Melbourne that are havens for wine. The areas are perfect for the vines and therefore there are plenty of wineries (as they are called here, not vineyards).
We headed to one particularly dense population of wineries - the Mornington Peninsula.
No packed lunch or picnic was prepared, we had already discovered that most wineries come with some sort of restaurant, so we decided to risk it and go for lunch at one of them.
The prediction for the day was grey skies and possible showers in the morning, however the weather is unpredictable, so with both umbrella and suntan lotion packed, we headed out in the car.
We stopped off in Mornington (presumably the town for which the peninsula was named) and took a stroll down the main street towards the beach (the drive had been along the coast so we had seen plenty of it already, but there's nothing like getting up close and personal). The town was full of shops and cafes. I was very lucky and Andy purchased me a bento box, it is super cute, with a little sauce pot and knorf (a fork/knife). I shall be searching the internet for bento box lunch recipes over the next few days - yum, yum.
So it was nearly lunch and we headed further down the peninsula to Redhill and our first winery - which also did woodfired pizza (lunch) and a sculpture trail. The wines were fine and we purchased a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc.
The next winery was named 10 minutes by tractor, although we didn't ride in a tractor at all and wandered into the cellar door (not because we were drunk but rather this is the name for the area were you can taste the wines). The wine tasting was $4 each but the people were very knowledgable and there were at least 7 wines to taste - you could also waive the cost if you bought a bottle of wine, which we did (well 2 bottles, a sauv blanc and a chardonnay).
We were then going to head home but there was time for one more, so I choose Darling winery (really, that was it's name) which was on the route back. This winery was fabulous, mostly due to the 2 wonderful women hosting the cellar door, they were so friendly and funny and gave a laypersons explanation of their wines. So we ended up with 7 bottles (buy 6 get one free, can't resist a deal) these were a mixture of pinot, rose, sparkling, viognier (pronounced vee-on-yay) and sauv blanc.
So plenty to drink at ours at the moment. Bottoms up!

We also went the Palais theatre in St Kilda to see Tim Minchin vs the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, both Andy and I had a fantastic time, it was comedy and music in one, very funny and very entertaining. There will be photos if I can get them off of the mobile phone!
All round a 5 Stacey star weekend.