Heathcote Winery Cafes

Heathcote Winery’s Cellar Door and Winery are uniquely positioned in the main street of Heathcote. The Cellar Door and adjacent Art Gallery are housed in a restored miners produce store built by Thomas Craven in 1854 to cater for the huge influx of gold miners seeking their fortune.

The winery produced its first vintage in 1981 and now specialises in the production of Shiraz and Viognier reflective of the Heathcote Region but distinctly Heathcote Winery. Shiraz is the cornerstone of Heathcote Winery’s premium wine production, including the highly acclaimed Mail Coach Shiraz and flagship Curagee Shiraz.

Visitors to cellar door may enjoy free wine tastings and a selection of regional gourmet items. Heathcote Winery Galleria serves seasonal fare during the day from Thursday to Sunday. Or just relax and unwind with a glass of wine in our sheltered rustic courtyard.

Natala & Greg Flynn established Flynns Wines with a focus to make individual & premium wines. The wines reflect our vineyard, the vintage season and Heathcote regionality. We love to give our customers an insight onto wine with first hand experience with the winemakers in Cellar Door and the Winery.

Just an hours drive from Melbourne CBD our Café and Cellar Door is the perfect place to commence your visit to one of Australia’s most unique wine regions.

The Merindoc range of wines is supported by two very different vineyards, Willoughby Bridge Vineyard, at Colbinabbin, Northern Heathcote has a warm continental climate and the well known Cambrian Red soil, whilst the Merindoc Vineyard, at Tooborac, the southern of the Heathcote region, is on the sweeping slopes of the Macedon Ranges and features granite soils and cool night temperatures.

The variety of climates and soil types between our two Heathcote Vineyards allows us to grow a wide range of varietals well suited to the different aspects of the Heathcote region not only creating a diverse range of wine styles, but also requiring careful and adaptive viticultural expertise, to bring forth the best from each vine.

Hand pruning, hand picking and training all give the vineyard staff an intimate knowledge of every slope, and every clone, allowing us to express a ‘’sense of place”.

As is often said, the best fertilizer is the vigneron’s footstep.