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Top Picks for Wine Tasters

Tasmania’s wine selection has never been better and its cellar door experiences never more appealing. With so much choice it would be impossible to visit them all, so these top picks should help with your planning.

Explore the Tamar

Cheers to rolling hills and pretty vineyard hopping in Tasmania’s north! One of the top 10 wine routes in the world, follow the signs to find more than 30 wineries dotted around the cool-climate Tamar Valley, from Pipers River to Relbia.

Vineyard Hop the Coal River Valley

On the Southern Wine Trail, the Coal River Valley’s biggest secret is the savoury, spicy pinot noir a few wineries have been creating, along with perfumed, European-style shiraz and aromatic, lemony Riesling.

Taste Méthode Traditionnelle

The climatic conditions of the Jansz Vineyard rival the famed French wine region of Champagne. In fact, it was originally with French contribution that Jansz became Tasmania’s first sparkling made using méthode traditionnelle.

Visit Spring Vale’s Heritage Listed Cellar Door

A small 5th generation family owned vineyard since 1875, Spring Vale homestead is a one of the oldest properties on Tasmania’s East Coast. The intimate cellar door is a window into the property’s history, a heritage listed stable built by convict labour and filled with farming relics of the day.

Blustery Banks

Hold onto your hat. This vineyard on a windswept hill overlooking Bass Strait has more to offer than just wine tastings. You can buy apples from their orchard and local gourmet ­cheeses, preserves, olives, truffles and fudge can be made into gourmet hampers or just pick out your own bounty.

Taste Wine on Island Time

Bruny Island Premium Wines is Australia’s southernmost vineyard and has been carved from bush and set on a gently sloping northwesterly site. Here everything is handpicked and pressed immediately for freshness and delicacy. Meet the makers at the cellar door over a wine tasting.

Sip Top Wine at a Hobby Farm

Home Hill Winery is nestled in a valley with a similar climate as Bordeaux region in France, which might explain why the original hobby farm of six rows of vines turned out to produce some of Australia’s top quality Pinot Noir.

Rescue Wine Trapped in a Bottle at Prickly Mo

Pricky Mo have turned their old shearing shed into a cellar door. They have the deck, the live music and the vino – all that's missing is you. Come for the wine, stay for the conversation. Because no good story ever started with a salad.

Pooley Perfection in a Bottle

Three generation of the Pooley family have created the mantra ‘Perfection is our passion”. Their environmental approach to wine making has made them the first and only fully credited environmentally sustainable vineyards in Tasmania.

Images supplied by:
Tourism Tasmania Rob Burnett Ilona Schneider Nick Osborne
Tamar Valley Wine Route Andrew McIntosh, Ocean Photography Frogmore Creek Prickly Mo