Anyway, we finally get to the Yarra Valley after about an hour train ride and load onto this big bus that takes us to our first stop, Yering Station, Victoria's first vineyard. It was absolutely gorgeous since you could see far off into the distance of the valley every way you turned. We got a tour of the wine making process which was actually really interesting seeing as I know NOTHING about wine. We were able to try as many wines as we wanted, so we really quickly were able to focus on what kinds of wine we like. I, not surprisingly, like the sweetest bubbliest wines, which apparently is very common among new wine drinkers. They kept joking that in no time I'll be drinking a dark dry red with the rest of them. But for now, I'm perfectly fine with my dessert wines and champagne!
The next winery was very different from the first, a small family-owned winery that only opens 2 days a year for tours. Their wine cellar literally is just in the cellar of the house, and they only produce about 1200 bottles of each kind of wine a year. That is absolutely nothing compared to the other wineries we visited. This tasting was especially interesting because they showed us the same wines in different years so we could taste the difference that an extra year makes on these wines. I was actually very surprised of how big of a difference I could tell between the different years. The 2008 chardonnay and the 2010 chardonnay were completely different creatures. And I love that I can say that now and sound like a complete snob.
The last place was by FAR my favourite, but mostly because along with selling wine tours, they have cheese tours. Now there is few things in this world I love more than good cheese, and this was some of the best. They had the biggest list of wines of the three wineries and had a very distinct order in which you should try them in. Apparently you should always try wine lightest to darkest, starting with champagne to cleanse the pallet. Who woulda thought? But it was so delicious and I'm SO happy I got to do this wine tour. Usually they're about 100 dollars at least, which they're easily worth, but I probably wouldn't have done it if it wasn't free.
The night ended (after a very long day at work) as wonderful as it started, with a slumber party at my downstairs neighbour’s room! They have so many more channels on their tv than my roommate and I do, so I had so much fun flipping through their channels and freaked out when I saw Buffy!! I screamed and made them watch with me even though they had no idea what was going on and made fun of me endlessly. I didn't even have the guts to tell them I knew it was season 5 episode 12...
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