For eleven days during April, the Great Southern in Western Australia was celebrated, and I was a part of this fabulous celebration of wine and food. One of the celebrations of wine and food was the Galafrey Long Table Lunch, held at the Galafrey winery in the town of Mount Barker, about 4 hours South…
I have a long-standing connection to Western Australia’s Great Southern region. As a kid, my family would pack up the car at least twice a year and drive the 4-5 hours to my Aunty and Uncles farm just East of Albany, where we would spend at least a week at a time catching Koonac’s from…
Yep, we did manage to get to 3 wineries within the first few hours of being in the Great Southern! After visiting Gilberts, then Galafrey we had lunch with a friend in Mt Barker who said we must stop into West Cape Howe Wines on our way down to Albany. It was a little bit…
Galafrey is a family-run winery in the Great Southern’s Mt Barker sub-region. One thing that really sets this vineyard apart from the rest is the fact it’s ‘dry grown’.
As you have no doubt seen on the blog and my social media channels, Mr. Spittoon and I headed south a few weeks ago for Taste Great Southern. We left our home in the Swan Valley first thing Friday morning and perfectly timed our trip so we’d rock up at the first cellar door at…
Western Australia has to be one of Australia’s top wine travel destinations. We have 9 regions throughout the state and WA’s oldest wine region, the Swan Valley, is a mere 25 minute drive from the Perth CBD. We literally have wine at our fingertips and the best thing is that the wine industry in WA…
Behind every great wine there’s a story to be told. Whether it’s how the wine was made, where it came from, who helped produce it or for what particular purpose it was made. Half the fun of being involved in the wine world is finding out these stories and sharing them over a glass or…
It was my birthday. I was starving. And we had just drove 7km down a dirt track to find a winery & cafe until we got to a tree that had fallen across the road. Dead end. Ahhhh!