Straight off the plane and into the wineries, distilleries & breweries! So great that just a few hours earlier they'd been on a plane. Ludo and Emily flew in from Singapore on Sunday and Joan met them from the airport at lunchtime and drove them straight out to the Yarra Valley so as
Ross and Megan wanted a weekend break in a different region of Victoria so chose well when they decided on the Yarra Valley. :-) They liked the wine at each cellar door so much, they bought some at every stop! We collected them from their accommodation in Healesville and drove them to their
Marisa had her brother and sister-in-law visiting from interstate with their baby, so she booked a half day Yarra Valley wine tour for them and we managed to fit in tastings at 3 cellar doors as well as a fantastic lunch at Coombe! They loved Coombe the Melba Estate - understandably John collected
While we all know that comparisons are odious - it's pretty hard not to compare wine regions if you come from one and are visiting another! As locals to the Yarra Valley we know we can't help but make comparisons when we visit another wine growing region as we are used to our cellar door experiences
How many times have you heard someone say - 'Give someone the gift of an experience, rather than yet more stuff'. New research suggests that if your goal is to make the recipient happy, you'll have better luck giving an experience rather than material things. And that's because in our affluent society, if we want something we're
Phil & Andrew and their 2-year old son Jonathan live near Napa in California and were after a wine tour of the Yarra Valley seeing cellar doors with character, great architecture, or lovely scenic lookouts and of course wanting to try great cabernets, pinots and chardonnays. We sourced a car seat for the youngest
John did a tour with 17 students from the University of Delaware, USA who wanted a half day tour of the Yarra Valley. They were in Melbourne staying at Melbourne University College, studying Australian Literature. John collected them at 12.15pm and they were very excited about visiting the Yarra Valley, as none of them had been
Shauna and finance Jarrod really are. Getting married in the morning - tomorrow morning infact. And given that Shauna is from Dublin and has been out here 7 years, and her Mum and family made the trip out to Australia for the wedding, they thought they'd have a pre-wedding personalised Yarra Valley wine tour
Elouise was turning 24 and wanted to celebrate her birthday in a unique way with her girlfriends on a personalised wine tour - so we collected her and 8 of her girlfriends from Lilydale on Sunday. Fortunately the rain had eased a little and we started the day at St Huberts Winery, one of the oldest
Two lovely couples Mark & Stephanie and Calvin & Donna were up in the Yarra Valley to see the awesome Stevie Nicks and Chrissie Hynde in concert at Rochford Winery, and rang on the Sunday to see if we could take them on a private wine tour. And by 11.30am we'd collected them from their
