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# Kerri Greens

Tom McCarthy and Lucas Blanck's new-school Peninsula label, lighter-style Pinot, approachable Chardonnay, and a cellar door that feels like a bar.

Known for   New-School Peninsula Label Lighter-Style Pinot Noir Wine-Bar-Feeling Cellar Door Tom McCarthy and Lucas Blanck

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Kerri Greens · Merricks

Why we’d go

Kerri Greens is the Peninsula's new-school face, the cellar door to recommend to friends who find the ridge estates a little too serious.

Kerri Greens is the Peninsula's new-school face. Tom McCarthy and Lucas Blanck launched the label a few years ago with a clear intent to make lighter, more immediate wines than the regional default, Pinot Noir that does not need to be cellared before it can be drunk, Chardonnay that leans into freshness rather than heft, and built a cellar door to match. The experience is closer to a good wine bar than a country estate: small plates, natural pours, a garden, and a team that explains the wine without any of the Peninsula's traditional formality.

This is the cellar door to recommend to friends who find the ridge wineries a little too serious. The wines are genuine, Tom worked at several of the Peninsula's top estates before launching Kerri Greens, and the approach is a reminder that Peninsula wine does not have to be cloistered to be good.

Open weekends. Book ahead for bigger groups. The single-vineyard Pinot Noir is the bottle to take home.

Worth knowing

**Best for**

Cellar door visits · Wine lovers · Couples · Food lovers

If you only do one thing

Order the single-vineyard Pinot Noir and stay for a small plate, the wine-bar format works best when you let it run.

Works well with

Merricks General Wine Store · Stonier Wines

Filed under   Cellar Door Slow Garden Spring Summer Autumn Couples Group Solo

Best in   Spring and Summer and Autumn

At a glance

**Type**

Winery

**Location**

235 Stanleys Rd, Red Hill South VIC 3937 · [Directions](<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=Kerri%20Greens%2C%20235%20Stanleys%20Rd%2C%20Red%20Hill%20South%20VIC%203937>)

**Awards**

Young Gun of Wine Cellar Door of the Year Finalist

**Website**

[www.kerrigreens.com](<https://www.kerrigreens.com/>)

**Directions**

[Get directions](<https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=-38.3998%2C145.1012>)

**Live status**

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