Winery Accommodation on the Mornington Peninsula

The best Peninsula wine weekends improve when you stop treating accommodation as an afterthought. The right base means you drink once, eat properly, and wake up where the trip actually happens, instead of spending the whole weekend running transfers between Sorrento beds and Red Hill lunches.

The good options are limited, distinct, and easy to choose between once you know what sort of weekend you are building. Polperro Villas and Crittenden Estate Villas are for couples who want to stay embedded in the vineyard experience. Port Phillip Estate is the Peninsula's most architecturally serious winery stay: Wood Marsh-designed, one-hat restaurant, six suites. Mantons Creek Estate is the under-indexed option near Shoreham, two minutes from Ten Minutes by Tractor with on-estate Italian dining. Cassis Red Hill is not on a working winery but sits adjacent to one, and every villa has a private heated plunge pool. Jackalope and Lindenderry are the hotel-format alternatives for those who want service infrastructure alongside the wine-country position.

Note on Point Leo Estate: Point Leo does not operate on-estate accommodation. The Lon to Leo package pairs with Lon Retreat in Sorrento. For stays near Laura and the sculpture park, Mantons Creek Estate is the nearest vineyard-stay alternative.

Last fact-verified: 8 May 2026

Villa Red Hill

Polperro Villas

150 Red Hill Rd, Red Hill South VIC 3937 · $$$$

Two private vineyard villas sleeping four, with the Polperro cellar door at the end of the drive.

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Villa Dromana

Crittenden Estate Villas

25 Harrisons Rd, Dromana VIC 3936 · $$$

Self-contained vineyard villas on the Crittenden lake, wake up, walk to the cellar door, and eat at the on-estate restaurant without getting in a car.

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Winery Red Hill

Port Phillip Estate

263 Red Hill Rd, Red Hill South VIC 3937 · $$$$

Rammed-earth architecture, a one-hat restaurant, and six hotel suites set into the pinot rows of Main Ridge.

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Villa Shoreham

Mantons Creek Estate

240 Tucks Rd, Shoreham VIC 3916 · $$$

Four adults-only vineyard suites with on-estate Italian dining, two minutes from Ten Minutes by Tractor, the most under-indexed southern Red Hill base.

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Villa Red Hill

Cassis Red Hill

Red Hill VIC 3937 · $$$

Five adults-only villas with private heated mineral plunge pools, on the edge of Red Hill wine country with views over Western Port Bay.

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Hotel Red Hill

Jackalope Hotel

166 Balnarring Rd, Merricks North VIC 3926 · $$$$

A dramatic art-led design hotel set inside a working vineyard, with Doot Doot Doot's eight-metre chandelier overhead.

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Lindenderry at Red Hill

142 Arthurs Seat Rd, Red Hill VIC 3937 · $$$

40 acres of English-style gardens, a small estate vineyard, and the kind of country-house feel the Peninsula doesn't offer anywhere else.

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How to use this category

Best for a one-night wine weekend?

Jackalope if you want drama and a stronger hotel experience. Polperro Villas if you want something quieter, more intimate, and directly embedded in the wine-country mood.

Best for a slower two-night stay?

Port Phillip Estate (architecture, one-hat restaurant, six suites on the estate), Lindenderry, and Crittenden Estate Villas all work well when the weekend is less about ticking off cellar doors and more about pace, meals, and place.

Best for the southern Red Hill circuit?

Mantons Creek Estate - two minutes from Ten Minutes by Tractor, Quattro Restaurant on-site. The most under-indexed winery stay on the Peninsula.

Why this matters

The Peninsula's wine-country roads are beautiful but narrow and badly lit at night. The more you can collapse dining, tasting, and sleeping into the same zone, the better the weekend becomes.

Winery Accommodation on the Mornington Peninsula

7 stays that work best for a Peninsula wine weekend

Polperro Villas

Crittenden Estate Villas

Port Phillip Estate

Mantons Creek Estate

Cassis Red Hill

Jackalope Hotel

Lindenderry at Red Hill

How to use this category

Best for a one-night wine weekend?

Best for a slower two-night stay?

Best for the southern Red Hill circuit?

Why this matters

Build around food and wine

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Winery Accommodation on the Mornington Peninsula

7 stays that work best for a Peninsula wine weekend

How to use this category

Best for a one-night wine weekend?

Best for a slower two-night stay?

Best for the southern Red Hill circuit?

Why this matters

Build around food and wine

Peninsula This Weekend

July sits in the quieter stretch of Peninsula winter, and that is the point. The lead booking is a truffle hunt at Red Hill. Sunday is for the sculpture park at Pt. Leo.