A Weekend in Margaret River - Part 2

Day 2

We wanted to be able to appreciate the wine of the Margaret River region and not worry about one of us having to drive so we decided to book one of the wine day tours. Now there are quite a few to choose from and its personal choice, but I was looking for one that didn't take many people. We didn't want to find ourselves on a large bus with a group of drunk people whose goal was to chuck as much wine down their necks as possible. After some extensive research I settled on Top Drop Tours. We booked onto the Wine & Dine full day tour.

We were collected from our accommodation at 10.30am. Chris was our tour guide for the day and owner of the company.  There were only six of us on the tour in a lovely black 7 seater vehicle.  Chris explained that we would be visiting five vineyards during the course of the day, which scheduled tastings at all and lunch at one of them. I believe that each tour if different in terms of vineyards visited depending on various factors. Some of those that we visited were Hay Shed Hill, Leeuwin, Stella Bella, Pierro. Stella Bella was my favourite and we returned to this one the following day on our own to buy a few extra bottles. 

The photo above is the list of wines we tasted at Pierro Vineyard. I can highly recommend number 4.

Our lunch stop was at Hay Shed Hill. Top Drop Tours had us a table booked and waiting for us when we arrived which was a blessing as it was the holiday weekend and very busy. We were given menu's and told we could choose 3 dishes per couple plus a glass of wine. Between us we had the Venison Chrizo Pizza, Crumbed Calamari with Fennel Salad, and Charcuterie plate – duck rillette, venison pate, pork terrine, beetroot relish, caperberries. All three dishes were really tasty and just what we needed while drinking lots of wine. The glass of hay Shed Hill Chardonnay I had to go with lunch was very drinkable.

During the course of the day we purchased a few bottles of wine and also made a note of places we wanted to return to the next day. This is a photo of our haul.

 If you go down to MR and decide to book a tour I thoroughly recommend booking with Top Drop Tours. It was a pleasure to spend the day with Chris and he really knew his stuff. It was obvious that the winery's we visited also like him and they all very much looked after our group. Chris also runs other tours including half days and Private tours.

At the end of the day when we were dropped back to our accommodation, we had already pre planned to not go out anywhere. Instead we had bought some crusty bread and some nice cheese to eat while watching a DVD in our villa.

A fantastic day all round.

To be continued.............