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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 the first Saturday morning of the month. 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. Best’s welcomes those travelling with their dogs, welcome outside our cellar door and on the lawns. But with limited table seating outside, please be sure to note this on your booking so we can reserve a table for you.
*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
Curious about our wine tasting experiences?
Check out this short video for a brief look at what is on offer here at Best’s Great Western
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Great Western Tasting
This tasting experience features wines from our Great Western varietals range. This tasting 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.
**Great Western Tastings are not available over Long Weekends; Please select our ‘Long Weekend Tasting Experience’ **
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Premium Tasting
This tasting experience includes a selection of wines from both our Growers Series and premium Concongella Collection. This tasting experience is $15 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.
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Shiraz Tasting Experience
Experience our shiraz! Are you a lover of shiraz and want to experience the subtleties of a select range of Best’s Wines Shiraz’s, join us for a shiraz tasting in our cellar door.
$25 per person *
*Club discounts apply for this experience.
Available 7 days a week on the hour, bookings essential. We are open Monday to Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 11am-4pm
**Shiraz Tasting Experiences are not available over Long Weekends, please book a Long Weekend tasting during these times **
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Icon Tasting Experience
This tasting experience consists of three wines from our Icon Range, poured under Coravin and costs $80 per person. The tasting includes our flagship wine, the Thomson Family Shiraz. Our Thomson Family Shiraz was named in the First Classified, and Bin No. 0 Shiraz was included as Classified in the 8th edition of the Langton’s Classification. Wine Club members receive their club discount for this experience
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.
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AFL 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! Our $10 tasting brings together wines from our Great Western and Concongella ranges. Our $20 tasting gives us the opportunity to showcase the 1976 Hermitage alongside our Great Western and Concongella wines.
Start planning your Grand Final weekend. We’ll have two special Long Weekend tastings for $10 and $20 as well as platters available to share with friends from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 September.
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.
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Guided Cellar Tour + Tasting
Discover our ‘Best Kept Secrets’ and join us on the first Saturday of each month for a guided tour of Best’s Wines historic underground cellar. The tour will start in our “Stables” cellar door, one of our friendly 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 $35 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 only available on the first Saturday of each month**
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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