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Best’s Wines Cellar Door
Book a Tasting experience
Experience the very best of the Grampians Wine region and join us in our cosy cellar door for a seated tasting, Best’s Wines has an experience to suit all palates! We offer an introduction to our Great Western Range as well as several premium options including our very special Icon Tasting Experience, under Coravin. Plus we offer a guided underground cellar tour and special tasting on Saturday mornings. Our Pick a Platter cheese boards are available 7 days a week and do not need to be booked in advance (view menu). Cellar door bookings are essential over long weekends and busy holiday periods*. Booked guests will receive priority over walk in customers.
*A single tasting option is available during these times only, this tasting incorporates wines from across all our ranges. Reservations close 1 hour prior to your preferred booking time. Please call the cellar door for bookings less than 1 hour prior to your visit. Tasting fees are not redeemable on purchase.
For large groups (11 or more) group booking fees apply, please contact us directly on +61 3 5356 2250 or via email cellar.door@bestswines.com
Great Western Tasting
This tasting experience features wines from our Great Western varietals range. This tasting is $5 per person or FREE for all wine club members and up to 2 guests (Handpicked, Icon, Magnum, Magnum Red, Imperial & Discovery).
Please note if you are travelling with friends or children not intending to drink, please specify this in the optional notes section of the booking for seating purposes.
**Great Western Tastings are not available over Long Weekends; Please select our ‘Long Weekend Tasting Experience’ **
Premium Tasting
This tasting experience includes a selection of wines from both our Growers Series and premium Concongella Collection. This tasting experience is $10 per person or FREE for all wine club members and up to 2 guests (Handpicked, Icon, Magnum, Magnum Red, Imperial & Discovery).
Please note if you are travelling with friends or children not intending to drink, please specify this in the optional notes section of the booking for seating purposes.
**Premium Tastings are not available over Long Weekends; Please select our ‘Long Weekend Tasting Experience’ **
Icon Tasting Experience
This tasting experience consists of three wines from our Icon Range, poured under Coravin and costs $60 per person. The tasting includes our flagship wine, the Thomson Family Shiraz, classified “Exceptional” in Langtons Classification VII. Wine Club members receive their club discount for this experience (Discovery, Magnum, Magnum Red, Handpicked and Imperial)
Please note if you are travelling with friends or children not intending to drink, please specify this in the optional notes section of the booking for seating purposes.
**On Long Weekends Icon Tastings are only available at 11am daily **
Long Weekend Tasting
Over busy long weekends we create a tasting experience that features wines from across all our ranges so that our guests, really can, experience it all! This tasting is $5 per person or free for all wine club members and up to 2 guests (Handpicked, Icon, Magnum, Magnum Red, Imperial & Discovery).
This tasting is available for the January long weekend, Labour Day, Easter, King’s Birthday, AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup and in between the Christmas and New Year period. Please note if you are travelling with friends or children not intending to drink, please specify this in the optional notes section of the booking for seating purposes.
Back Vintage Tasting
Available October 2023 ONLY
Have you ever sampled aged wines? Experience the subtleties and nuances of a select range of aged Best’s Wines and join us for Back Vintage tasting in our cellar door. This tasting experience is available to book for a limited time from 9th – 31st October 2023 and includes a special selection of wines from the last 20 years across our Great Western Range, Growers Series & Concongella Collection.
The Back Vintage Tasting experiences is $45 per person, Wine Club members receive their club discount for this experience (Discovery, Magnum, Magnum Red, Handpicked and Imperial)
Please note if you are travelling with friends or children not intending to drink, please specify this in the optional notes section of the booking for seating purposes.
Guided Cellar Tour + Tasting
Discover our ‘Best Kept Secrets’ and join us on Saturday mornings in a guided cellar walking tour of Best’s Wines historic underground cellar. The tour will start in our “Stables” cellar door, one of our friendly cellar door staff will guide you on the walk. Hear about the Best’s family and their pioneering beginnings through to the 5th generation Thomson Family who have been custodians of the Concongella Estate since 1920. After the tour, a tailored wine tasting awaits, where you can savour some of our wines from across a variety of ranges. The Guided Tour & Tasting is $25 per person, Wine Club members receive their club discount for this experience (Discovery, Magnum, Magnum Red, Handpicked, Icon and Imperial)
Maximum 10 guests. Please note if you are travelling with friends or children not intending to drink, please specify this in the optional notes section of the booking for tour & seating purposes.
**Guided Tours & Tastings are not available over Long Weekends**
Private Icon Tasting Experience
Best’s Wines offers a unique private Icon tasting experience inside our old concrete white wine maturation tank which was constructed in the 1870’s and now forms part of the historic underground cellar walk. This experience includes our Icon Tasting and a small cheese plate. Our private Icon experience has a maximum capacity of 6 people due to the size of the space. Please contact us to book a private tasting experience.
For large groups (11 or more) group booking fees apply, please contact us directly on +61 3 5356 2250 or via email cellar.door@bestswines.com
