44 Paringa Rd, Red Hill South VIC 3937 · $$$
A serious single-vineyard producer with one of the Peninsula's most dependable restaurant terraces.
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1333 Mornington-Flinders Rd, Main Ridge VIC 3928 · $$$$
Estate-grown pinot noir alongside a seasonal degustation rooted in the Ridge vineyard.
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33 Shoreham Rd, Red Hill South VIC 3937 · $$$
Single Vineyard Pinot Noir and a Sunday lunch beneath the olive grove canopy.
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150 Red Hill Rd, Red Hill South VIC 3937 · $$$
Small-production cool-climate pinot and chardonnay poured in one of the prettiest tasting rooms on the ridge.
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263 Red Hill Rd, Red Hill South VIC 3937 · $$$
Single-vineyard pinot noir and chardonnay from one of the Peninsula's most decorated estates.
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80 William Rd, Red Hill VIC 3937 · $$
Planted in 1975 by Nat and Rosalie White, the Peninsula's founding vineyard, still making restrained Pinot and Chardonnay from the original blocks.
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271 Tucks Road, Shoreham VIC 3916 · $$$
Mike Aylward's precise, minimal cellar door turning out some of the Peninsula's most quietly obsessive pinot noir.
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2 Thompsons Lane, Merricks VIC 3916 · $$
One of the Peninsula's founding estates, planted in 1978, grown-up, unflashy, with some of the oldest Chardonnay vines in the region.
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23 Old Bittern-Dromana Rd, Merricks North VIC 3926 · $$$
Paul Scorpo's tightly focused family estate, one of the Peninsula's most acclaimed Pinot Gris alongside elegant Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
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210 Foxeys Hangout Rd, Red Hill South VIC 3937 · $$$
Tod Dexter's quiet, considered estate, appointment-only tastings for a small, serious pinot and chardonnay program.
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86-112 Tuerong Rd, Tuerong VIC 3933 · $$$
Tom Carson's single-block Chardonnay and Pinot Noir program, poured from a relaxed cellar door with one of the Peninsula's loveliest lunch decks.
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3649 Frankston-Flinders Rd, Merricks VIC 3916 · $$$
A sculpture park walk followed by a long bay-view lunch in the glass-walled restaurant.
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1208 Mornington-Flinders Road, Main Ridge VIC 3928 · $$$
One of the Peninsula's most photographed cellar-door positions, sweeping Western Port views and a serious traditional-method sparkling program.
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120 Arthurs Seat Rd, Red Hill VIC 3937 · $$
David Lloyd's tiny cult estate, single-clone Pinot Noirs from individual rows, plus Gamay, made for the Burgundy obsessives.
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20 Longview Crescent, Mount Eliza VIC 3930 · $$$
Barnaby Flanders' micro-production Chardonnay and Pinot project, rigour, restraint, and regular appearances in the Halliday Top 100.
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110 Tuerong Rd, Tuerong VIC 3933 · $$$
Three winemakers, small-batch Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and cult-favourite status among Australia's best sommeliers.
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