"EXPERIENCE THE MORNINGTON PENINSULA"
OUR TOP ULTIMATE MORNINGTON PENINSULA EXPERIENCES
We have scoured the Mornington Peninsula to give you the Best Experiences on offer!! You won't be disappointed
BASS & FLINDERS DISTILLERY GIN MASTERCLASS
FANTASTIC 2 HOUR EXPERIENCE AND YOU TAKE HOME YOUR PERSONALLY BLENDED 500ML BOTTLE
AND A CHEESE AND FRUIT BOARD TO MUNCH ON WHILE YOU LEARN !!!!
During our fun, interactive masterclasses you will create your own bespoke gin, blending a selection of individually infused botanical distillates for your gin blend to suit your taste. It’s our version of aromatherapy for craft spirits lovers. Swirl, sniff and sip your way through our Masterclass experiences. Find out more about the fascinating history of gin and how it is made. You will discover innovative techniques and constant search for new flavours to create truly unique craft spirits here at Bass & Flinders Distillery.
Your Gin recipe is kept on file so you can re-order your own gin to enjoy, or become one of the most unique gifts you can give!
YOUR MASTERCLASS WILL INCLUDE
: • 2 hour session run by one of our experienced Botanical Advisors
• Bass & Flinders product tastings
• Intimate class sizes
• 500ml bottle of your bespoke Gin to take home
• History and knowledge of our production processes
• Fruit and cheese board featuring local produce
If you are looking to buy a Gift Voucher for the Masterclass then CLICK HERE
The fully inclusive cost for this fantastic Masterclass experience is $175 per person
MONTALTO DISCOVERY TASTING FOR TWO
GREAT VALUE FOR A GREAT EXPERIENCE
The Mornington Peninsula Discovery Tasting offers beginners and seasoned wine lovers alike insight into the roles played by variety, site and winemaking in producing world-class and cool-climate wines.
Overlooking the Estate vineyards, we will guide you through an educational tasting of wine from our current releases and back vintages, as well as limited bottlings not available elsewhere.
Following your tasting, take a seat in the beautiful alfresco Piazza, where the seasonal menu is drawn from our produce gardens. Enjoy a casual, shared lunch with a glass of wine. After lunch take your time to explore the contemporary sculpture collection set amongst the produce gardens and vineyards of the estate.
The all inclusive price for this experience is $270 per couple.
This experience is also available as a Gift Voucher for a special occasion. If you are buying a Gift Voucher CLICK HERE
THE CHILLOUT WINE TOUR EXPERIENCE
OUR BEST VALUE WINE TOUR
Runs Friday/Saturday/Sunday and the cost is only $179 per person. Pickup is from the CBD at approx 9.30am. Alternate pick up and drop off points are available to suit and you should check their website for full details. The Tour concludes around 5.30pm with a CBD dropoff.
Tour Itinerary – Mornington Peninsula Wine Tour
Port Phillip Estate
Start the day at Port Phillip Estate is one of Mornington Peninsula’s most exciting cellar doors. With its bold architecture, elegant tasting bar and spectacular views their cellar door is the perfect place to enjoy their wine. All of which is entirely estate grown.
T’Gallant
The next stop enjoy a wine tasting at T’Gallant followed by a two course lunch, featuring their delicious mouthwatering wood-fired pizzas. Enjoy your meal with a glass of wine and some coffee/tea with your desert.
Red Hill Estate
After Lunch we head to the picturesque Red Hill Estate, a boutique winery that is steeped in tradition. While you are tasting wines from their multiple-award wining range you will enjoy panoramic views of Western Port Bay .
Quealy Winemakers @ Balnarring
Meet winemakers Kathleen Quealy and Danny Calvert, take a tour of the vineyard and winery, and sample the large selection of cellar door offerings.
This Tour can be purchased as a Gift Voucher for a Friend or Family Member. If you wish to organise a Gift Voucher then CLICK HERE
At a fixed price of $179 it represents great value for what is delivered.
AURORA BATHHOUSE RITUAL & ASPAR DETOXIFYING BODY WRAP
JUST ONE OF A FABULOUS ARRAY OF STUNNING AURORA EXPERIENCES
FIRSTLY WE PAUSE, RESET AND REPLENISH IN THE BATHHOUSE RITUAL.
Enhance your wellbeing and refresh your mind with all-weather year-round bathing in our subterranean bathhouse, a refined retreat bringing you an array of curative water therapies and immersive contrast therapy in creatively designed contemporary comfort.
THEN OUR ASPAR DETOXIFYING BODY WRAP
Combining potent botanicals and minerals with therapeutic techniques to detoxify, tone and revitalise your skin, this treatment begins with grapefruit salt exfoliant to sweep away dull, flaky skin cells. Your perfectly primed skin is then masked with a lemon myrtle green clay, containing organic Australian bentonite to draw out toxins, calm inflammation and regenerate your skin with healing minerals. The clay is left to activate, while you drift away with a scalp massage. The treatment concludes with an electro-mechanical lymphatic drainage massage, a gold-standard clinical tool to boost circulation, improve skin contour and enhance detoxification. Emerge with rejuvenated skin and a lightened mind.
All of this 3 hour experience for a total cost of $325pp
CHIEFS SON WHISKY TASTING EXPERIENCE
FOR THE TRUE WHISKY LOVER
How good would this be!!!
Tours run @11am Fri & Sat. Bookings are essential with a minimum of two people. If you would like to arrange another day or time please contact us.
Grab your friends or family and reconnect over a premium whisky. Includes a guided tour with distiller, sample whisky directly from the barrel, fill a 100ml sample bottle to take home, plus a core range whisky tasting.
Minimum booking of 2 people.
The price per person is $69 or $83 if you include an accompanying cheese platter (highly recommended)
This Distillery Tour is also available as a Gift Voucher for a present or gift to the true whiskey lover
Allow 1hr 40min.
FARE ITALIAN COOKING SCHOOL EXPERIENCE
COOK AND EAT IN AN A GRADE FACILITY OVERLOOKING MT MARTHA
How good would this be. Create and eat an Italian 4 course meal. Learn from a highly experienced cook in a superb setting and with a view to die for. Take home your souvenir menu as well as your recipes. A great experience indeed.
Fare Italian Cookery School by the Sea offers an insight into the culinary and culture of Italian life. The beauty of the food is in its gastronomic diversity. Our aim at Fare is to teach authentic Italian cooking. A great experience for beginners, cooks and foodies makes this a memorable event for friends & family to enjoy.
Our beautiful cook’s kitchen & dining area has magnificent 180 degree panoramic views across Port Philip Bay. We have a fireplace to cosy up in Winter & a large balcony to enjoy on the finer days.
Buon Appetito!
Start with your very own hands on interactive & fun Italian cookery class learning how to prepare & create an authentic three course meal, using fresh & local produce.
This class involves making fresh pasta from scratch amongst other traditional Italian dishes (main, 2 side dishes & a dessert)
Enjoy what you have created as lunch at the dining table with a magic sea view
The total price for this sumptuous experience is only $165 per person and suitable for groups of 4-12 persons
MONTALTOS FAMED ESTATE TO PLATE EXPERIENCE
PERFECT EXPERIENCE FOR THE FOOD AND WINE LOVING COUPLE
*Please note: Due to Government Regulations and social distancing requirements, the location of the experience may differ slightly from below*.
A guided exploration of our 75-acre estate in Red Hill will show you the best of the seasonal cycle at Montalto.
This is a unique visitor experience during any season of the year. You could taste the grapes around vintage, learn how Montalto grow and make use of seasonal produce or explore the property’s natural wetlands and extensive permanent sculpture collection.
Experience Montalto’s ‘Estate to Plate’ philosophy with a guided walk through the estate kitchen gardens. A passion for seasonal, locally grown produce has seen Montalto kitchen gardens expand to almost four acres in recent years. Explore the expansive gardens and learn how our growers and Montalto kitchen work hand in hand to maximise the natural bounty of the
estate. After the Kitchen Garden walk is a guided, seated tasting, with panoramic views overlooking Montalto’s Red Hill vineyards, featuring Single Vineyard and Estate wines that truly reflect the cool climate location of the vines and of such quality that they are recognised as a “Red Five Star” Halliday rated winery.
Finally, experience Montalto’s estate to plate philosophy in action, with a celebratory multi-course tasting experience with award-winning wines. Montalto dining focuses on produce from the estate and the region is honoured with the menus that are built around it, grab a table overlooking the breathtaking views – either in the stylish, covered courtyard or amongst the lush kitchen gardens.
After lunch, you are welcome to continue your exploration of the property, with a self-guided tour of the estate’s natural wetlands and an extensive permanent sculpture exhibition.
The perfect gift for any die-hard foodie, the Montalto Estate to Plate Gift Voucher is an experience out of the ordinary. To book a Voucher for this experience CLICK HERE.
The all inclusive cost for this experience is $520 per couple
AUTOPIA TOURS MORNING HOT SPRINGS EXPERIENCE
LEAVES MELBOURNE CBD AT 8.20AM AND RETURNS 2.30PM
Pamper yourself at the world-class Peninsula Hot Springs as you soak up the serene settings and absorb the peace, whilst relaxing and rejuvenating. The goal of the Peninsula Hot Springs are your pleasures, with the purpose being ‘to create experiences where people relax in nature and connect with the deep well of their being’. The pools and private baths are filled with flowing natural thermal mineral waters at this award-winning coastal oasis, so you can let your worries wash away as you relax back in the naturally healing waters and mineral-rich thermal pools. The Bath House has over 50 different bathing experiences available and provides areas suitable for guests young and old. There is also a kiosk available that offers lunches and light morning and afternoon snacks for your convenience. Peninsula Hot Springs is just 90 minutes from Melbourne and can proudly claim to be the first natural hot springs and day spa centre in Victoria.
Autopia also run a twilight version of this Tour. Leaves Melbourne CBD at 3pm and returns at 9.30pm if that suits your itinerary better.
The price of this Tour is $185 per adult.
The Morning Tour runs Monday to Thursday inclusive
The Twilight Tour runs Friday to Sunday inclusive
BASS & FLINDERS GIN HIGH TEA
JUST THE BEST DAY OUT FOR THE LADIES
Enjoy a relaxing afternoon in the sun at Bass and Flinders distillery located in the Dromana industrial area. Over the course of your afternoon you will dine on delectable local fares, hand crafted gins and be given a history of their gin and what makes them so unique.
The Gin High tea includes:
- Gin and tonic of choice on arrival
- Tier of savory and sweet items including
Limoncello infused curd tart
Scones jam and cream- gin infused jam
Madame marmalade and chocolate gourmet biscuit
Cerise infused lamington and delectable seasonal fruits all locally sourced.
- Savory items of mixed gourmet rolls, mini quiche, cheese and crackers
- Choice of Gin paddle with 4 handcrafted gins, tonic and ice to mix your own gins at the table.
All of this for a remarkable $95 per person and operates every Friday and Saturday and Sunday
MOONRAKER DOLPHIN SWIM
Embark on a once in a lifetime experience swimming with Port Phillip Bay’s dolphins
Moonraker Dolphin Swims signature tour!
Join us on this half day adventure. Cruise the sheltered shallows of Port Phillip Bay to embark on an exciting once in a lifetime experience swimming with Dolphins, Seals and Weedy Sea dragons.
Our dolphin and seal swim tour encounter with the wild animals are totally unique and rewarding.
We strive to achieve an experience that is truly a breath taking adventure- and one you will never forget.
Tours facilities and inclusions:
• Luxury purpose built boat,
• Premium quality snorkelling equipment including full length wetsuits,
• Morning or afternoon refreshments, drinks and snacks,
• Licensed and awarded wildlife snorkelling activities,
• Amazing photo opportunities,
• Guided activities by qualified naturalists
The cost for this experience is:
$195 for an Adult
$165 for a Child (5-15 years)
$630 for a Family (2 Adults and 2 Children)
This Tour makes the perfect present for a family member or friend. Should you wish to purchase a Gift Voucher for this Tour then CLICK HERE
BAYPLAYS DISCOVER SCUBADIVE EXPERIENCE
RUN BY THE PROFESSIONALS
Learn to dive today! Dive in Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay with Seadragons!
Scuba Diving in the Bay off Portsea is the perfect way to discover all kinds of marine life in the underwater world. No certification or experience is required! Our highly experienced, professional instructor will help you take the plunge and show you the best spots to find mesmerising marine life including beautiful soft corals and rare Weedy Seadragons.
Step 1 – Learn the basic theory behind scuba diving in the comfort of a classroom environment.
Step 2 – Skills Session held in confined water blowing bubbles in shallow water allowing a comfortable transition to the underwater world. Here we introduce the skills necessary to maximize safety and comfort for the amazing dive ahead.
Step 3 – It’s time to meet the marine life! Visit the Weedy Sea Dragon Colony or Octopus and Seahorse garden. This you will never forget!
Inclusions : Equipment hire, Air fills, Scuba dive theory and skills session, then an ocean dive to one of the fab five dive sites which are determined by conditions on the day.
What to Bring/Wear? Bring a towel, bathers, and something dry to wear afterwards. Self catering applies, please be sure to bring a snack or lunch or you may purchase food in nearby cafes.
Participant Conditions: Age: Participants need to be aged 13 and above. Younger children may be able to do a PADI Bubblemaker dive experience.
The full price for this experience is $220 for Adults and $175 for eligible children.
This adventure is also available as a GIFT VOUCHER. If you would like to buy this experience as a Gift Voucher then simply CLICK HERE
JIMMYRUMS DISTILLING EXPERIENCE
WITH YOUR OWN TAKE HOME DISTILLED BOTTLE
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Start the morning off strong with a double espresso, tea or coffee
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A detailed history of rum from the rum loving expert himself
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Enjoy a rum tasting experience across our 4 x JimmyRum products as we talk you through our distinctive JimmyRum flavours
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Taste the diversity of rum through additional rum tastings from around the world
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A guided tour of our working distillery while discussing the distilling process of other craft spirits.
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Blend your very own own 50ml bottle & take it home. Group experiences have the opportunity to combine your blend with your mates to make it into a bigger bottle, so you can enjoy together - after all sharing is caring!
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We will have our cheese & meat platters available to enjoy throughout the morning experience.
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This experience runs every first and third Saturday of the month and the all inclusive price is $95 per person, including your own take home personally blended sample bottle.
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And if the second or fourth Saturday suits you better then catch us and enjoy our Spice It Your Way Rum Experience. Our passionate distilling team will share their crafty skills in the making of JimmyRum Spiced and help you get hands on to make your own. Let us take you on a journey of flavours and expressions. From the dry to smooth, the sweet, the spicey, and the bitey. And best of all! We will make up and send you a 375ml bottle of your favourite blend for you to share with your friends and family.
For the full details of both of these fabulous Experiences just click on the Button below. We look forward to welcoming you.