We started the day with a tasting at the hotel with Russell Bourne and the Battley Wines. I won’t say much about the wine except that Dan might have saved the best for last. If you can find any of these wines you need to buy them. These are small-production, high-quality wines from the Beechworth region which is about a four hour drive north of Melbourne. Beechworth is cool climate, high elevation and Battely produces the most Rhone-like wines in Australia.
We have the rest of the day free to roam around Melbourne with an optional lunch scheduled at one of Dan’s favorite Melbourne restaurants- Becco. Becco serves great bistro food and we dined banquet style again while the wine flowed. The food was some of the best on the trip. We shopped around the city for the remainder of the day until it was time for our final blow-out dinner. During the tour we collected wine donations from the producers for this last supper. We wound up with 7 cases of wine for the dinner. Needles to say we had plenty of everything and we got a little rowdy the restaurant Da Noi. Most of the group went out after dinner but I headed back to the hotel to try and pack. On the bus the next morning at 7 AM for the ride to the airport and the long flight home.
See ya latter Australia… I’ll be back soon.
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