Crooked River Winery Cafe

Today we visited a lovely winery and cafe with club46 ( www.club46.com.au ) that is located in Gerringong, NSW. Our winery tour ticket included a starter of bread and semi dried tomato butter, a choice of four mains and a cup of coffee. I chose the tasting platter for 2 and was very impressed with the serving size and quality of food which included smoked salmon, chicken lyonnaise, eggplant, pate, salt and pepper calamari.

Crooked River Winery Cafe - Tasting Platter, with more photos of lunch at http://www.illawarrafoodreviews.blogspot.com

Brian Jackson, the owner of Crooked River Winery, Gerringong, NSW 2535, Australia

“I think this is the place closest to heaven,” says Brian Jackson, owner, with his wife Narelle, of Crooked River Wines at Gerringong, north of Shoalhaven Heads on the New South Wales south coast.

From the vineyard’s handsome visitor centre we look across to tree-covered hillsides and dairy farms, a pastoral landscape in many shades of green. The little Crooked River winds through the Jacksons’ 14-hectare vineyard, and eventually empties its mountain-clear water into the ocean at Geroa.

Brian was a businessman who wanted a change in lifestyle “but not too far from Sydney because we have 16 grandchildren living there”. He looked at many wine regions - the Hunter Valley, Mudgee, Orange, and Cowra - and then he found this property, which had been a dairy farm for more than a century. “We are close to beaches and a golf course, and only 20 minutes from the lovely rain forest in Budderoo National Park,” said Brian

(Text Source: Winestate Magazine )

www.crookedriverwines.com/

Also blogged at illawarrafoodreviews.blogspot.com/