Bendigo Wine
The Bendigo Wine Region has a program of events throughout
Winter and Spring of 2008. Visit www.bendigotourism.com to book your tickets online.
Sparkling Spring Luncheon
Saturday September
20th
Lake Cairn
Curran Vineyard
Celebrate the vineyard’s 21st year with
a Spring Luncheon featuring local organic produce matched with current
release wines. Wine tastings and wines by the glass with Moroccan tangines and scrumptious desserts in the new cellar door. Or dine outside overlooking the vineyard at
budburst, with stunning Loddon river panoramas.
Bendigo Heritage Uncorked
Saturday
& Sunday October 11th & 12th
Bendigo Heritage Uncorked
is an iconic moveable feast event. The winemakers of Bendigo create this unique
wine festival each year to showcase the best of Bendigo – Bendigo wine, quality
restaurants and grand gold rush architecture. Bookings via www.thecapital.com.au
For well over a century, the gentle rolling hills which fold away from the granite outcrops of the ranges of Central Victoria have been home to some of the great wines of Australia.
The first grapes were planted in the region in 1856 just after the start of the massive goldrushes which brought tens of thousands of hopeful diggers from all over the world to seek their fortunes.
They brought with them a lust for gold, but also the wine and food knowledge of Europe and it was only a few years before the judges at the 1873 Vienna Exhibition were heard to exclaim of Bendigo's early Hermitage that "no Colonial wine can be that good".
Click here to see Bendigo Wine via YouTube...
Today the Bendigo Winemakers have proudly placed this region of Victoria at the centre of a new winemaking excellence as evidenced by the reviews listed at right...
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