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Hip Hip Hooray for the Queen’s Birthday long weekend. On the Mornington Peninsula this pretty much signals that you have permission to indulge in three full days of tasting the best flavours of the season. We’re talking about everything from our renowned cool climate wines, to elusive truffles and amazing gin.

Love, love, love this spin on a traditional apple pie, with plenty of Mornington Peninsula Apples along with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and sultanas. Old Granny Mock sure knew what she was doing when it came to creating a mouth watering and fragrant dish of delicousness! 

Use this recipe card to recreate your own Wine Food Farmgate menu, then share all of your delicious creations with #winefoodfarmgate

Behind Moonlit Sanctuary is a lifelong love for animals and a dream to make a difference that started almost 20 years ago. Unsurprisingly, the sharing of natural close encounters comes ‘naturally’ to this well-respected and multiple national award-winning Australian wildlife experience; to the unending delight of guests who get the chance to meet animals in a natural setting during the day, or on a guided lantern-lit evening tour. You can see this continuing love affair for yourself on a daily basis.

Girls just wanna have fun! Writing this from the perspective of a 30-something who has enjoyed many a girl’s weekends away on the Mornington Peninsula be it for a birthday celebration, hens party or simply some much needed respite from the everyday stresses in life, I feel well qualified to put this guide together. There is nothing better than getting your besties together, piling into the car with your favourite road trip playlist blaring and creating memories which last a lifetime.

Whether you have the full two days or just one epic day to plan I have you covered. This mix and match itinerary will give you options to tailor the trip to your liking.

Forget Bridget Jones and the 1980s yellow overly oaked Chardonnays and picture a modern, fresh yet complex wine that truly reflects the varied terroir, is always interesting and identifiable to where it’s grown. On the Mornington Peninsula, we love our Chardonnay.

It turns out that Chardonnay could be the world’s most popular white wine according to the enormous number of bottles sold each year. While native to Burgundy you can now find Chardonnay grown in countries all around the world from Australia, to Europe, Argentina and the USA to name a few.