Wine Tasting - at last!

We had our first wine tasting at Cottle Bay, where we could have returned for lunch. But we went on to Madsen where they have a beautiful outdoor restaurant, canopied by grape leaves. It overlooks a duck-filled pond which rises to sloping vinyards. The food was exquisitely presented and very delicious.

At the end of the day, we visited Graham and Wendy for her birthday dinner. The drive up to their house is flanked by a small vinyard on the left, and eucalyptus trees o the right. The air was cool and crisp and we enjoyed a delicious barbecue of shrimp, fish and satay chicken outside.

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Anonymous said…
Anyone would think that you two liked wine just a bit. We sampled many bottles of it during our two weeks there.

Got home from surgery March 4th and so far all going well. Takes me for ever to get from point A to point B so cannot leave a pee too long!! Take care keep blogging.
Sagebrush
4:59 PM
Haloranch said…
Glad to hear you're up and about, sort of. Will you be able to wait on ushand and foot when we show up there end of March??
1:57 PM
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