The Mornington Peninsula has plenty going for it: natural beauty, surf breaks and great food, wine and beer among its many attractions.
The Peninsula VineHop Festival was launched in 2017 with a mission to celebrate the region's cool climate wines, craft beers and traditional ciders and returns in 2018 with a liberal sprinkling of music and entertainment too.
It's a two-day moving celebration that takes the brewery and winery tour concept and ramps it up to festival scale, involving eleven host venues and 22 wineries, breweries and cideries, with each venue hosting food trucks, live music or DJs and tastings.
The 2018 festival comes in two parts:
- VineHop Saturday – choose from a selection of packages that take you between the participating venues on tour buses
- PostHop Sunday Session – a degustation picnic event designed to give you a taste of the festival in a single location, Hickinbotham of Dromana (home of Hix Beer), featuring Kylie Auldist from The Bamboos
Tickets
Tickets are on sale from August 3. For the Saturday, you can choose between:
- VineHop Tour tickets, which take you to four venues (there's four to pick from) – $74pp
- VineHop Shuttle tickets, where you can jump on and off a shuttle bus at as many venues as you like – $74pp
- General Admission, which give you access to venues if you've booked a private bus (no private cars are allowed) – $46pp
- Private Adventure – there's a bunch of packages available for groups
Sunday's offering is:
- PostHop Sunday Session, which includes a picnic style lunch specifically matched with a selection of beer, wine and cider – $72pp
- PostHop Sunday Bus – an add-on to get you to and from Seaford Station, Mornington, Dromana or Rosebud
Buy Tickets Here
When: November 17 & 18, 2018
Where: Various locations on the Mornington Peninsula (see below)
VineHop Participants
You can find out more about the host venues and the breweries and other producers operating pop-up bars here. But this is who's taking part:
- Merricks General Wine Store @ Baillieu - plus pop-up Jetty Road Brewery
- Blue Range Estate Wines
- Dromana Estate - plus pop-ups Dainton Brewery and Ten Sixty One Cider
- Hickinbotham of Dromana + Hix Beer - plus pop-up Mornington Peninsula Brewery
- Mock Red Hill - plus pop-up Portsea Estate
- Bayview Estate - plus pop-up St Andrews Beach Brewery
- Phaedrus Estate
- Red Hill Estate @ The Briars - plus pop-ups Mr Banks Brewery, Bass and Flinders Distillery and Red Hill Brewery
- Old Apple Shed
- Stumpy Gully
- Kerri Greens - plus pop-up Hop Nation
