Cellar Door

For an alternative cellar door experience, Mt Surmon provides a unique combination not found anywhere else in the Clare Valley: 

• stunning vistas
• environmentally appropriate landscaping
• a large terrace on which to sit to take it all in
• a cellar door which is also an art gallery with an exhibition by professional and emerging artists
• food platters, coffee and cake
• an opportunity to engage with Jeni or Burt to discuss you wine requirements.

By definition a wine produced by a small winery and vineyard is unique to that winery/vineyard. A visit to the cellar door of that small winery will nearly always result in your being able to discuss the wines and the vineyard with the owner or winemaker or grape grower. This will be an enjoyable, romantic, elucidating experience.

Dare to be different. Forget the expensive glossies and wine writers. Educate your palate by visiting a small winery and discuss what you like with the owner operator. This way you will come across unknown gems, hidden up country lanes and offering a wealth of experience. You’ll return home to the barbie with a stock of great stories as you tell your mates about your small wineries adventures.

This learning style is easy, enjoyable, friendly and down to earth. Scientists call if field research. We call it the romance of the boutique winery.