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Winter Insider · August 2026 Winter 2026
Rammed-earth architecture, a one-hat restaurant, and six hotel suites set into the pinot rows of Main Ridge.
Known for Wood Marsh ArchitectureVineyard SuitesKooyong Sister EstateRammed-Earth Cellar Door
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Why we’d goThe Peninsula's most architecturally serious winery stay, where the building, the wine, and the room are all working at the same level.
Port Phillip Estate is the Peninsula's most architecturally serious winery stay. The building is a Wood Marsh-designed rammed-earth monolith set into the slope of the plateau, and it holds the cellar door, the one-hat restaurant, and six large hotel-grade suites that look out across Main Ridge pinot country. The scale is deliberate: you check in, you eat at the restaurant, and the only time you really need to leave the estate is to see more of the Peninsula from outside.
The rooms are generous and quiet, with private terraces facing the vines. The restaurant is one of the best lunch rooms on the ridge, anchored by the estate's own wines and a kitchen that understands the long-lunch brief. Sister estate to Kooyong, the single-vineyard tasting flights run through both.
Book the two-night package with dinner included. It removes almost every decision from the weekend.
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Book the two-night package with dinner and a single-vineyard tasting, it removes almost every decision from the weekend and gives you the full arc of the estate.
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Montalto Vineyard & Olive Grove · Tedesca Osteria
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Editor's verdict
Port Phillip Estate sits on the same address as Kooyong and shares winemaker Tim Perrin, but is the anchor: the home estate, the accommodation, the dining room, the full infrastructure. The Morillon and Red Hill Pinot Noir wines make a compelling site-specific argument for Red Hill South terroir. Adults-only accommodation, no pets, one-hat restaurant - wine-literate, food-serious destination.
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