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New Vintage Taste Sensation
Macedon Ranges Wine and Food Budburst Festival is the annual celebration of the new vintage with the region's vignerons opening their doors to the public for wine tastings, luncheons and entertainment.
This year 31 wineries will showcase their product at 20 venues over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday the 18th & 19th November between 10 AM and 5 PM on both days.
The Macedon Ranges produce some of the best cool-climate wines you'll find anywhere in Australia, the product of participating wineries including Botanica Estate, Chanters Ridge, Cobaw Ridge, Cope Williams, Hesket Estate, Granite Hills and, one of my particular favourites, Paramoor Winery.
The Paramoor tasting room is a former stable used to house Clydesdale working horses. It is literally full of farm and horse memorabilia providing a fascinating backdrop to a Paramoor tasting.
A Weekend Winery Pass costs just $20 if purchased on-line or $25 on the day at your first venue. The pass provides you with a personal tasting glass with which to sample 100 wines supplied by over 30 wineries and presented at 20 venues across the region.
And there's a fun and safe way to get around over the Budburst weekend with shuttle-buses running from key points too and from Festival venues on both days.
Buses will operate two services from Woodend Railway Station, three from Kyneton Railway Station and one from the Mount Macedon Hotel on Saturday each visiting different participating venues and returning to their starting point at 5 PM.
On Sunday there'll be two services from both Wooden and Kyneton Railway Stations again each visiting different venues and returning by 5 PM.
Bus arrival & departure times connect with train services too and from Bendigo and Melbourne Southern Cross.
The cost of a bus ticket is $35 per day and visitors can see & choose from the various itineraries on the event website or at Try Booking.
If you're after a more personalised Budburst experience specialist wine tours are available from Wine Tours Victoria, Midland Travel Tours and Cruise or Food and Wine Tour.
Now in its 26th year the Macedon Ranges Wine and Food Budburst Festival must be doing something right to keep big crowds coming back year after year. Don't miss this fabulous and fun opportunity to sample the very best of Macedon Ranges produce.
Woodend is 71-Kilometres north of Melbourne, about a 1-hour drive via the Calder Freeway/M79.
Alternatively VLine operate fast and efficient rail services between Melbourne Southern Cross and Woodend on the Bendigo line.
Image Courtesy Macedon Ranges Wine and Food Budburst Festival
This year 31 wineries will showcase their product at 20 venues over the weekend of Saturday and Sunday the 18th & 19th November between 10 AM and 5 PM on both days.
Located at Carlsruhe Paramoor Winery is one of the regions best .....
..... with its tasting room set in a fabulously rustic old stable. Photos: Ian Gill / Footloose PhotoBank
A Weekend Winery Pass costs just $20 if purchased on-line or $25 on the day at your first venue. The pass provides you with a personal tasting glass with which to sample 100 wines supplied by over 30 wineries and presented at 20 venues across the region.
And there's a fun and safe way to get around over the Budburst weekend with shuttle-buses running from key points too and from Festival venues on both days.
Buses will operate two services from Woodend Railway Station, three from Kyneton Railway Station and one from the Mount Macedon Hotel on Saturday each visiting different participating venues and returning to their starting point at 5 PM.
On Sunday there'll be two services from both Wooden and Kyneton Railway Stations again each visiting different venues and returning by 5 PM.
Bus arrival & departure times connect with train services too and from Bendigo and Melbourne Southern Cross.
Budburst is the annual celebration of the new vintage. Photo: Ian Gill / Footloose PhotoBank
The cost of a bus ticket is $35 per day and visitors can see & choose from the various itineraries on the event website or at Try Booking.
If you're after a more personalised Budburst experience specialist wine tours are available from Wine Tours Victoria, Midland Travel Tours and Cruise or Food and Wine Tour.
Now in its 26th year the Macedon Ranges Wine and Food Budburst Festival must be doing something right to keep big crowds coming back year after year. Don't miss this fabulous and fun opportunity to sample the very best of Macedon Ranges produce.
Visitors to the Macedon Ranges 2017 Budburst Festival will have the opportunity to visit 20 venues and sample the produce of 31 of the regions excellent wineries. Photo: Ian Gill / Footloose PhotoBank
Woodend is 71-Kilometres north of Melbourne, about a 1-hour drive via the Calder Freeway/M79.
Alternatively VLine operate fast and efficient rail services between Melbourne Southern Cross and Woodend on the Bendigo line.
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Why? Budburst showcases some truly great wine and food in a relaxed and friendly country atmosphere only an hour's drive from the centre of Melbourne.
When: Saturday and Sunday the 18th & 19th November between 10 AM and 5 PM both days.
Phone: Woodend Visitor Information Centre (03) 5427 2033 or 1800 244 711
Where: Wineries throughout the Macedon Ranges.
Cost: A Weekend Winery Pass costs $20 if pre-purchased on-line or $25 on the day at your first venue.
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