Cool Climate Classic Lunches

1st March 2011

Ten of the Mornington Peninsula’s top restaurants and cafes are making a delicious offer that’s hard to resist: a two-course lunch featuring bountiful local produce with a glass of cool climate wine for just $49.50.

But the offer is just available on Friday May 27, as a feature of the 12^th Cool Climate Wine Show from May 25 – 27 on the Mornington Peninsula.

Participating restaurants are Barmah Park Vineyard Cafe, Green Olive at Red Hill, Max’s at Red Hill Estate, Montalto Vineyard and Olive Grove, Nazaaray Estate Winery, Salix at Willow Creek, The Long Table Bar and Dining Room, Trim’s of McCrae, Veraison at Bluestone Lane and Verge Restaurant and Bar.

The chefs have more than risen to the Cool Climate occasion...Green Olive at Red Hill is offering three courses for the price of two, including hand-made sausages from their own organic lamb, accompanied by their farm-made relish and chutneys, with seasonal greens. Chocolate mousse is made with their free-range eggs, and is served with coffee from Green Olive farm-roasted single origin wild beans.

Max’s at Red Hill Estate recently won the Australian Tourism Award for Best Tourism Restaurant, and its dishes include baked figs with Red Hill blue cheese, prosciutto and Max’s famous aged morello cherry balsamic vinegar.

Barmah Park Vineyard Cafe has brought together a basket of local producers, including Dannic garlic to accompany baked and stuffed pork loin with a celeriac and chive salad drizzled with Delgrosso apple balsamic coulis. It’s followed by Nirvana free range egg pavlova roulade, filled with Sunny Ridge macerated strawberries and cream.

The Long Table Bar and Dining Room is serving an entree of Mornington Peninsula seafood and sea herbs, followed by Chinese inspired duck, heritage beetroots and organic watercress, accompanied by a glass of Darling Park pinot noir.

The Cool Climate Wine Show attracts well over 600 entries from the Mornington Peninsula, Tasmania, New Zealand, the Yarra Valley, Macedon Ranges, Whitlands, Geelong, and South Australia’s Limestone Coast and Adelaide Hills.

There’s a public tasting on Wednesday May 25. For more information and bookings for the lunches, go to www.classiclunches.com.au;  for more information on the wine show visit www.coolclimatewineshow.org.au

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Kellie Barrett

Senior Tourism Officer

Mornington Peninsula Tourism

P: 03 5987 2683