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Cellar Door Dispatches

The producers worth the appointment, the wines worth the cellar, and the arguments happening in the vines.

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Quealy Winemakers: The Peninsula pioneer that still feels gloriously unpolished

2 May 2026

If you care about how the Mornington Peninsula became more than a pinot monoculture, start here. Quealy is not glossy and that is exactly the point — this is one of the region's formative tasting rooms, built on curiosity, Italian varieties, and a refusal to behave like a tourist estate.

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