Single-vineyard pinot noir and chardonnay from one of the Peninsula's most decorated estates.
Known for Halliday Top Winery AustraliaNamed Single-Block Vineyard ProgramHaven, Meres, Ferrous, Faultline Blocks98-Point Winery Rating
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Why we’d goThe single-block tasting is a practical education in why micro-terroir matters, side-by-side pinot noirs from adjacent slopes that actually taste different from each other.
Kooyong is the Peninsula's most consistently serious producer of single-vineyard wine, and the cellar door reflects it. The estate sits on the Main Ridge plateau with forty-odd hectares under vine, split into named single blocks, Haven, Meres, Ferrous, Faultline, that have given the Peninsula some of its most collectible bottles of the past fifteen years.
The tasting room is smaller and more contemplative than the trophy estates, and the flight through the range is a proper education: side-by-side pinot noirs from adjacent slopes show what micro-terroir actually looks like in Victoria's cool-climate heartland. The chardonnay program runs just as precise.
Book the single-vineyard tasting. Go midweek if possible. This is where you come to understand what the Peninsula tastes like at the top of its form.
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Book the single-vineyard tasting flight and take notes, these are the kinds of differences that only make sense when the glasses are in front of you together.
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6 April 2026
Not the biggest estates, not the flashiest rooms. The five Peninsula cellar doors where the wines - and the people pouring them - actually change how you think about the region.
9 April 2026
Everyone sells the Mornington Peninsula as a pinot noir region. They are half right. The quiet argument of the last three vintages is that the chardonnay is now the more interesting bottle on the table, and the one worth cellaring.
10 April 2026
One proper dinner, one long lunch, one afternoon doing nothing useful. The Peninsula couples' weekend that respects the fact that you came here to slow down, not to optimise.
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