After many trips to the Yarra Valley wineries, I think I have a fantastic route from Melbourne where you can get a bit of everything.

• Leave Melbourne and head past Yarra Glen to De Bortoli. Here you taste cheeses with your wines. Try the garlic goat cheese, yum! Don’t forget to experience the Sparkling Shiraz (yes red champagne!)
• Then to Yering Station Winery. Not only does this have a beautiful setting but they have a few good reds to try.
• Time for lunch? Train Trak is a fantastic place for gourmet pizzas, gnocchi and many other italian dishes. While you wait for your food, head into the barn for wine tasting and don’t forget to ask where the moose came from?!
• Depending on how many more you can manage, there are quite a few on your way to Healesville but whatever you do, don’t forget Riverstone and Rochford on your way back to Melbourne. Riverstone is perched on a hill over looking the valley with a beautiful stone home and has a couple of great reds and an awesome Tokay.
• Lastly, Rochford where you can taste some local fudge after sipping a number of their wines. Rochford also hosts outdoor concerts in the spring and summer.

There are so many other wineries, but after numerous visit, they would have to be my top five