Pioneering Margaret River winery Vasse Felix has joined Ultimate Winery Experiences Australia (UWEA), a collection of award-winning wineries offering “beyond the cellar door” experiences, food and wine matching, wine education and gastronomy in spectacular locations. Vasse Felix is known as one of Australia’s leading labels for cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay, and the estate is considered in the top echelon of winery destinations with its innovative cellar door experience featuring tasting and education offers through to a la carte dining. Its on-site art gallery showcases exhibitions from one of the world’s largest private art collections.
Two bespoke experiences have been developed by Vasse Felix for UWEA. The Vasse Felix Original tour ($45 per head) takes guests behind the scenes of the label, showcasing production, offering historic insights and finishing with a private tasting of wines and gourmet morsels. The Vasse Felix Epicurean Tour ($185 per head) delivers the ultimate culinary journey, adding a food and wine pairing tutorial and a three-course a la carte menu with matching wines to the basics of the Original tour.
Vasse Felix owner and CEO Paul Holmes à Court said: “UWEA is a terrific initiative to raise the profile of many outstanding wine tourism experiences being delivered around Australia. The Vasse Felix team looks forward to working with UWEA, its members and travel distribution partners in developing new ways to introduce and attract people to the paradise that is Margaret River.” The Vasse Felix experiences join those offered by 13 existing UWEA members, including the opportunity to be a master winemaker for a day at d’Arenberg or Penfolds, Taste Your Birth Year in Premium Fortified wine at Seppeltsfield, take a Wine Flight over some of Tasmania’s most scenic landscapes and return for lunch at Josef Chromy or stay overnight in a cosy cottage surrounded by grape vines and be waited on by a private chef providing a three-course dinner and matching wines at Audrey Wilkinson’s vineyard in the Hunter Valley. See www.ultimatewineryexperiences.com.au.