Cheese and Wine Gift Packs – Melbourne and Geelong Delivery

At this stage we are only delivering to these postcodes: 3240, 3219, 3224, 3217, 3222, 3225, 3223, 3227, 3226, 3218, 3214, 3215, 3216, 3213, 3212, 3331, 3332, 3328, 3241, 3321, 3230.

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If you are outside these areas, feel free to contact us and we will do our best to accommodate. You can always order our Tasting Pack which will include a cheese and wine guide for you to follow at home. We deliver this throughout Australia.

The pack will be delivered every Friday between 9am – 5pm. If you are not home, please leave out a cooler bag for the cheese and we will notify you when it has been delivered.

Wine Tasting Notes

Austin’s Riesling: A fresh and vibrant wine with intense aromatics and a zesty, clean acid edge.

Austin’s Chardonnay: A silky, rich and smooth chardonnay with flavours of vanilla bean and creamy nougat in a silky, satin-like texture.

Austin’s Pinot Noir: A multi-clone blend of our finest barrels are used to produce this complex, well-balanced pinot noir that bursts with lush, textured fruit and savoury oak flavours.

Austin’s Shiraz: A cool-climate shiraz that is peppery, creamy and delivers ample of boysenberry and cherry flavours. A rich, yet fresh, medium-bodied wine that is lush and savoury.

WINE AWARDS

Austin’s Riesling 2018

• Halliday Wine Companion – 96/100 GOLD
• ICCWS – Bronze
• Geelong Wine show – Bronze
• Victorian Wine Show – Bronze
• The Real Review – 87/100 Bronze

Austin’s Chardonnay 2018

• Ballarat Wine Show – Gold
• Ballarat Wine Show – Trophy, Best Regional White Wine
• Ballarat Wine show – Trophy, Best Chardonnay
• Geelong Wine Show – Silver
• Victorian Wine Show – Bronze
• Australian International Wine Comp – Bronze
• The Real Review – 95/100 GOLD (Also rated in the top three Geelong chardonnay’s)

Austin’s Pinot Noir 2018

• Geelong Wine Show – Gold
• The Real Review – 93/100 SILVER
• ICCWS- Bronze
• Royal Sydney Wine Show – Bronze
• National Cool Climate wine Show – Bronze
• Ballarat Wine Show – Bronze

Austin’s Shiraz 2017

• Halliday wine Companion 2020 – 93 points (silver)
• The Real Review – 90/100 SILVER
• Geelong Wine show – Silver
• ICCWS – Bronze

Yes it makes for a perfect gift for a wine lover in your life. Simply say in the comments of your order it is a gift and ensure the shipping address is for the recipient.

To ensure we can offer a these packs at this price we have pre-selected the wines.

If you would like to create your own pack, you can do that by contacting The Fresh Food Merchant directly. https://themerchant.paperform.co/

Yes, please put the selected Friday you would like the delivery in the comments of your order.

Australian Winemakers since 1982

Grown in the rich limestone soils and cool climes of the Moorabool Valley, we’ve created a wine for sharing life’s best moments, both big and small. Bring your family and friends, pull up a chair, raise a glass and let’s make memories. Welcome to the Austin’s family.

Austin’s grows and produces single vineyard, premium wines, and is owned and operated by second-generation family members, Scott and Belinda Austin. Harnessing 30 years of Austin’s winemaking history, they are driven to reshape the ‘typical’ Australian fine wine occasion into a vibrant, exploratory and welcoming experience.

In the last five years, the business has seen significant business growth, driven by 6Ft6 nationally, and a boutique on-premise focus for its core Austin’s brand.

Approaching wine with an innovative, contemporary and authentic attitude, the hope is for Austin’s to be wholeheartedly and memorably enjoyed with family and friends.

A FAMILY OF THE VINES

In 1982, Pamela and Richard Austin purchased a small five-acre block in Waurn Ponds, Victoria. Driven by a desire to grow grapes and make wine to be enjoyed with their friends around the dinner table, they developed a small vineyard of three acres.

This passion evolved over time and in 1990 they purchased acreage in the Moorabool Valley and set about planting a new vineyard. Over the course of five years they established 150 acres of vines and Austin’s Wines was born.

Winemaking was in the family bloodline. In 2008 their son Scott took ownership of the business and was later joined by his wife Belinda and their three children Spencer, Delilah and Huxley.

Austin’s grows and produces single vineyard, premium wines. Harnessing 30 years of Austin’s winemaking history, we are driven to reshape the ‘typical’ Australian fine wine occasion into a vibrant, exploratory and welcoming experience.

Our philosophy is, and always will be, to create quality wine to be enjoyed with family and friends in an authentic, welcoming and enriching experience, through both our special occasion wine brand, Austin’s or our mid-tier range, 6Ft6.

Why Moorabool Valley WINE?

The Moorabool Valley produces wines of great power and concentration, with precise varietal definition and deft balance.

Continental in nature, we’re close to the Southern Ocean and dry in summer. The cool climate gives our wines full ripeness and beautiful finesse.

Moorabool Valley has a rich history, with ancient volcanic soils containing a tough limestone and basalt base. This forms the sub-region’s unique terroir and provides the ideal free-draining soil for our grapevines.

AUSTIN’S VINEYARD

Austin’s has been located in the heart of the Moorabool Valley since 1990, a cool climate wine region steeped in rich history. Nestled between Geelong & Ballarat, the Moorabool Valley’s small, family run vineyards provide rich and intense low yield fruit, an ideal terroir for producing award-winning wines.

The Austin’s Estate is across 1,500 acres, with 150 under vine. The land boasts rich volcanic, limestone soils and a terrain that sits in a rain shadow.

Challenging weather conditions makes the Moorabool Valley one of the most complicated places to make wine, yet it produces some of the region’s best wines, notably, pinot noir.

Sitting on the ocean floor some 20,000 years ago, this land has been reclaimed by millennia of volcanic activity. Geelong’s Moorabool Valley sub-region has a tough limestone and basalt base. This gives the sub-region its unique terroir and provides the ideal free-draining soil for our grapevines.

Moorabool Valley’s cool climate is continental by nature but still moderated by its proximity to the ocean. This provides perfect conditions to grow world-class wines. All our vines are planted north–south and trained vertically. The canopies are managed to provide enough light and air into the fruit zone to maximise vine quality and health.

Careful irrigation during the growing season ensures healthy vine growth and even ripening which is the key to quality fruit.

Read more about the Moorabool Valley region here.

SHIPPING

The cheese and wine packs are hand delivered each Friday. Place your order before Thursday at 8am or the pack will be delivered the following week. The packs are either hand delivered by our staff or a courier. We will call the mobile number provided when your package has been delivered.

If you are not going to be home, please leave out a cooler bag with ice pack.

How much does it cost?

Shipping in included in this product.

If you order hasn’t arrived within this time frame, please contact us so we can chase it up for you.

RETURNS

We are very confident in the quality of our wines that if for any reason you feel the wine is not up to standard, follow these steps to enable a refund:

1. Notify us within 30 days of your delivery that you will like a refund. Any feedback during this time would be appreciated.
2. We’ll send you a return shipping label and you can book in a pick up address and time that suits you.
3. Upon inspection of the goods returned, if they are in the same condition as to how they were sent*, we will issue a refund to you.

*’Same condition to how they were sent’ simply means – no damaged labels, wine must have been stored in appropriate temperature conditions (not in a freezer or in direct sunlight or in damp conditions). The shipment is to be sent back in the original box and include the empty bottle of wine you have consumed to ensure the package is shipped safely.

If for some reason the wine was delivered to you damaged, simply take a photo of the stock and we will send a replacement.