Australian Wine
From the city of Melbourne, in Australia, you will want to rent a car or get a limo to get out to some of the nice vineyards in the area. Getting a nice bottle of wine to take back to one of the rooms in a quaint boutique hotel. Melbourne has many hospitable accommodations. Australia as a whole has become quite the place for good wines over the past few decades. There are 21 different wine regions, and they do vary from each other depending on the climate and soil.
Drive from Melbourne, for about and hour and a half to reach the wineries of the area. The coastal air add so much the wines produced here. Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Geelong, Sunbury and Macedon Ranges are some of the wine areas of this region. Yarra Valley may be the more known but Sunbury area has been producing wine since the 1860’s. Macedon Ranges has a mystery going on so it has become known because of Hanging Rock.
Some of the other regions for wine in Australia include North-East Victoria, Central Victoria, Western Victoria, South-East Victoria and North-West Victoria. North-East Victoria is located in the foothills of the great Victorian Alps. The region moves out to the flat plains along the Murray River. The Central Victoria region is the most diverse region. It has chilly mountains, humid valleys, thick forests, plentiful river flats and drier hills. It produces full flavored whites and reds. Western Victoria is on the path of the Great Grape Tour which take you to this region of cool climate, many kinds of soils and micro climates that go with the altitude changes. South-Eastern Victoria is a easy to get to day trip. It’s the Gippsland wine region of cool climate and coastal breezes. Then there is North-West Victoria, the warmest region of them all. Warm and dry is this region that houses Murray Darling and Swan Hill.
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