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Merricks General Wine Store

The old Merricks general store reborn as a cellar door, bakery, and produce-forward lunch room.

Known for Original Merricks Village StoreBarragunda Wines Cellar DoorWood-Fired Pizza and Sunday RoastPeninsula Produce Retail

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  1. Timber tables set for lunch before an open kitchen with hanging woven baskets and shelves of wine at Merricks General Wine Store
    Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  2. A staff member serves a plate of scallops to two diners at a table by the open fire at Merricks General Wine Store
    Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  3. Scallops on the half shell served on salt with bread and glasses of white wine, an open fire glowing behind
    Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  4. A visitor walks past the weatherboard facade of Merricks General Store, its painted sign framed by a red flowering vine
    Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  5. Four scallops on the half shell with a yellow sauce, orange roe and herbs, served on salt on a timber table
    Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  6. White wine is poured into a glass at a table set with a shared plate, an open fire glowing in the background
    Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  7. Shoppers pass through a homewares store with clothing racks, botanical prints and hanging dried foliage at Merricks General Wine Store
    Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  8. Three friends share plates and white wine at a table by the open fire while a waiter carries glasses at Merricks General Wine Store
    Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria
  9. A group of friends talk over wine at a table near the fireplace and botanical prints at Merricks General Wine Store
    Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria

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Timber tables set for lunch before an open kitchen with hanging woven baskets and shelves of wine at Merricks General Wine Store
Timber tables set for lunch before an open kitchen with hanging woven baskets and shelves of wine at Merricks General Wine StoreMerricks General Wine Store, Mornington Peninsula.Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria
Why we’d go

The room that makes the Peninsula feel like it still belongs to itself, unhurried, unfussy, and entirely of where it is.

Merricks General Wine Store occupies what used to be the village's original general store, and it has turned those bones into one of the most likeable rooms on the Peninsula. The front of the building is part cellar door for the Baillieu family's Barragunda wines, part retail for Peninsula producers, chutneys, oils, cheeses, and the back is a long, daylit dining room looking out over paddocks and eucalypts. The building has been changed and not changed at the same time, which is harder to pull off than it sounds.

Photo · Peter Foster, courtesy of Visit Victoria

The food is deliberately unfussy: a short menu that leans on pizza from a wood oven, a day's-catch fish, a lamb roast on Sundays, and pastries from the bakery that are worth arriving early for. The wine list is smartly priced and reflects the fact that the owners make wine themselves.

Good for a lunch that is not trying to be an event. Good for breakfast after a Merricks cottage stay. Very good for anyone who wants to know what a Peninsula village still can feel like.

Worth knowing

Best for
Long lunches · Local produce · Cellar door visits · First-time visitors

If you only do one thing

Arrive in time for a bakery pastry, sit in the back dining room with a glass of Barragunda, and order the Sunday lamb roast if you are there for it.

Works well with

Stonier Wines · Rare Hare at Willow Creek

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13 April 2026

Short days, cheap rooms, empty dining rooms, a fire in every cellar door with a hearth, and a coast that looks like a different country in a southerly. Winter is the Peninsula's most underrated season and the one that gives the region back to the people who actually live here.

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First Time on the Peninsula: The Honest Starter Guide

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You have never been to the Mornington Peninsula. You have a free weekend. You want to know what is actually good, what is overrated, and what the people who live here would tell you to do. This is that guide.

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A Peninsula Wellness Weekend

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Winery Merricks

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Kerri Greens

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