McLaren Vale Wineries...

Hello to you,

[This post of of Sunday, March 22, 2009]

Today I woke up and got around to head out to the wineries in McLaren Vale. I didn't go to church this morning because I am going tonight. E, M and I are going to LCC's Executive Director's house and she and her husband are going to take us to the wineries. We caught a train at about 10:55 ish and rode for a while. I decided I really like the train, but I still like the bus too. We arrived at the station and Yvonne and Richard met us and whisked us away to our first winery . The place was amazing! And they were having an end of the bin sale so we were able to get wines cheaper! Heck yeah. The lady (pictured below) was very helpful when I was tasting wines. I really don't like wines, but I was up for the challenge. Turns out, I despise reds (I already knew that) unless their fortified but I love whites! Especially desert wines!!! We spent quite a bit of time at the first winery before moving to another winery also owned by the Lloyd Brothers. They own olive groves as well so this was more of an olive shop than anything else. I bought some desert wine here.

We went to another winery/restaurant later that was just as good as the first one. I ordered a margherita pizza.

(I'll finish this later when I have time!)

View from the train

The first winery and it's selections

The view from the first winery

Tasting some more wines and liqueors

Jason (in the background) was our bartender

The wines in the barrels

The fields - this gets really green in Australia's winter

The view from where we ate lunch

Cheers.