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Elan Vineyard & Gallery
Selma and Jonathan Lowther's 1981 planting, one of the oldest on the Peninsula, with a cellar door that doubles as a small contemporary art gallery.
Known for Planted 1981Cellar Door Art GallerySelma and Jonathan LowtherWestern Port Views
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Why we’d goForty years of the same two people farming the same vines, a cellar door that runs at the pace of the winemakers, not the weekend crowd.
Selma and Jonathan Lowther planted the vineyard in 1981, among the oldest plantings on the Peninsula, and have run it as a two-person estate for more than forty years. The cellar door doubles as a small contemporary art gallery, the welcome is genuinely warm, and the wines are the kind of quiet, well-made cool-climate bottlings you only find when you deliberately look off the main road.
The views run east to Western Port and the bush beyond; the tasting is unhurried and usually poured by the people who made the wine. This is the cellar door to save for the afternoon when you want to slow the weekend right down and talk to the winemaker for half an hour. It is one of the oldest working estates on the Peninsula and the Lowthers are still in it.
Phone ahead to confirm hours. Bring cash if you want to buy one of the paintings on the way out.
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- Cellar door visits · Wine lovers · Couples · Art lovers
If you only do one thing
Phone ahead to confirm hours, arrive without a schedule, and stay long enough to talk to whoever is pouring.
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