We were picked up by Kerry of Top Drop tours for a day of wine tasting and more. On our minivan tour were Graeme,a retired principal from Brisbane, Robert ( a retired shoe salesman) and his wife Elizabeth (got tiddly at the first stop) from Byron Bay who had come over on the Indian Pacific train to Perth and then bussed down, and two young couples from Perth Sam and Zoe, and Michael and Corina.
The first stop was Burch Family Wines which included the Mad Fish commercial range, the Howard Park prestige range and a further range made in collaboration with a french winemaker.
Our second stop was just the opposite - a very small vineyard of 7Ha - we had 8Ha, but some interesting wines at Cape Grace.
Providore had wines to taste as well as a range of pickles, relishes oils and sweet treats. There were also packs for baking with all ingredients included.
Clairault Steicker Wines was our lunch stop - excellent beef cheeks baked in red wine and puffy gnocchi. We also visited a cheese factory and finished up at Juniper which had some very fine wines.
After dropping everyone home we confessed to Kerry that we had been grapegrowers for 20 years, and felt that she had shown us a really good snapshot of Margaret River wines.
We went to a BYO Thai restaurant for dinner.
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