The McLaren Vale Cheese and Wine Trail

...is the result of a drunken afternoon at Blessed Cheese with the winemakers and cellar door staff of some the Vale's best wineries

Patrons select four wine/cheese matches from our list of twelve participants and are provided with a picnic hamper containing the four cheeses, crackers, Southern Vale Olives and dried muscatel grapes. They then head out on a self drive tour of the Vale, foods packed into a small esky, with cheese knives, boards, napkins and a map with tasting notes to guide them.

The silver package allows us to add extra fine foods to your hamper such a Spice Girlz pesto, fresh breads, dukkah, olive oils, smoked meats and local antipastos, to expand the package from a roving snack to a full picnic lunch.

Extra winery: $5/head

We provide the Silver package, and coordinate with the wineries to offer a half a glass of the highlighted wine, rather than a standard tast.

In this case, large integrated local produce and cheese platters are prepared and delivered for you to each selected winery prior to your arrival. Imagine a 4 course progressive lunch, starting with Appetisers (pecans, brazil nuts, mild goats curd with a dry White), and developing across the day to peak with a Main course (cheddar, smoked meats, pickled vegetables and a heavy McLaren Vale Shiraz), and ending with a dessert platter of blue cheese, chocolate biscuits and candied fruits next to a black fruits and mulberry red with edges of vanilla oak.

Ideal for Corporate and Social club functions.

LARGE GROUPS:

In order to provide a quality of service ande attention, and in order to respect the size of many of the participating cellar doors, larger groups may be asked to split into two. While a single bus can ferry the patrons, each of the halved groups visit neighbouring wineries, the bus ferrying between.