
*The tasting fee is redeemable on a one bottle per person purchase on the day. If booking on the day you wish to visit, please contact Tracie on 0412 167 927 to confirm your place at one of our inside or outdoor dining areas.įor the non-drinker or driver, we have coffee/tea, a selection of soft drinks and local beers too.Ī tasting fee of $10* per person will encompass a selection of 6 wines selected by our Winemakers, from our dry-grown Estate vineyards. We recommended booking for catering purposes and groups. Our new Winery Bistro is now serving delicious hot lunches of seasonal local produce, together with Charcuterie & Fromage Grazing Platters to share, Cheese boards or even a delicious dessert from 12 noon till 3pm. To enjoy your wine tasting journey with us will take approximately 45 and 60 minutes, with bookings for wine tastings from 10:30am till 5pm. Overlooking our ornamental wine garden and farmyard vista while enjoying our piped music during your special sit-down tasting experience with our Silver Spoon Estate Winemakers and staff with our award-winning wines. Sit back and relax in comfort and style and warmth of our new contemporary cellar door with fireplace (completed in October 2021), with undercover outdoor veranda spaces, and alfresco courtyards with stunning scenic views. There is always a wine for every palate, every budget and every occasion.

We also produce a range of red blends including GSM, GST or our current release Fandango dry red, and a very special late harvest wine too. Silver Spoon Estate has a diverse range of varietal grapes planted in 1999/20, including Tempranillo, Grenache, Mourvèdre, Viognier and a distinct collection of medium to heavy bodied Shiraz to suit all wine lovers - including our famous MONSTER SHIRAZ.

With dry-grown vineyards, sustainable practices, and a low carbon footprint, on the rich red Cambrian soil of the Mount Camel Range. Silver Spoon Estate is a boutique family owned and operated Cellar Door, Café, Winery and vineyards running 100% off-grid, by solar power, creating award-winning wines with personality and style in the heart of the Heathcote Wine Region. The green roof provides the most ecologically‐sound means of insulation, and the opportunity to showcase native plants.WINNERS of the 2021 Bendigo Business Awards – Sustainable and Environmental category. The bags are filled with earth, compacted, stacked and finally plastered, creating cement like walls with minimal environmental impact. Earth-bag building is a form of rammed earth-construction that uses woven bags as a flexible form and barbed wire to act as a mortar. It's dug into a small hill near the loading dock of Champlain College, and incorporates a range of innovative, sustainable building methods including earth‐bag walls and a green roof. Measuring 16’x20’, the root cellar features two storage areas, suitable for vegetables with different storage requirements. To build the root cellar, we teamed up with the good folks at the Endeavour Centre : a not‐for‐profit, sustainable building learning centre based in Peterborough, Ontario.

Acts as an educational demonstration site introducing students and community members to ecological building practices and traditional food storage method Reduces waste and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the long distance transport of produceĦ. The Spoon's root cellar project goes some way toward reconnecting growers and eaters and thus is one way to address some of the social and environmental issues within our food system.ĥ. Root cellars are an underutilized, traditional technology that uses the ambient heat below ground to store food in northern climates through the winter months. Student-research and dialogue with local farmers have shown that a major barrier to that availability is simply a lack of storage capacity. Sustainable eating and living depends on year-round access to locally grown food. Although there has been some resurgence of interest in ecological growing, food storage remains something of a lost art. This matters because much of our local food infrastructure-including storage-has been dismantled over recent generations. The Seasoned Spoon Café provides students, staff, and community members with ethically produced foods, as well as academic opportunities to engage in environmental and food issues. The Seasoned Spoon Field to Cellar to Table Food Storage Initiative
