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Producing 4,500 cases a year, Mount Horrocks Wines is a boutique winery creating high quality, award winning wines from estate grown fruit. Owner/winemaker Stephanie Toole carefully handcrafts her wines, which she describes as essentially 'handmade food wines'. Five wine varieties are produced under the Mount Horrocks Wines label including riesling, semillon, cabernet sauvignon, shiraz and the Cordon Cut Riesling which was served to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at her 80th birthday. James Halliday awarded Mount Horrocks a red five star rating in his 2012 Australian Wine Companion and Stephanie was nominated as one of the eight finalists for the prestigious 2007 Gourmet Traveller Australian Winemaker of the Year Award. Come to Mount Horrocks cellar door at the Old Railway Station where you can taste Stephanie Toole's award winning wines. The onsite Station Cafe also offers great lunch options.

Grosset Wines is a small, independently owned winery in Auburn, specialising in the production of seven highly regarded premium wines: Springvale Watervale Riesling, Polish Hill Riesling, Off-dry Riesling, Semillon Sauvignon Blanc, Piccadilly Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Gaia, a cabernet blend. Grosset wines are highly sought after, exported worldwide and served in first and business class on Qantas domestic and international services. Grosset wines are available by mail-order (see website to join mail-list) as the cellar door is only open from the first weekend in September each year for approximately six weeks. Numerous awards such as the Inaugural Australian Volvo/Wine Magazine Winemaker of the Year Award and the Inaugural Riesling Winemaker of the Year Award, Germany 1988, are the result of Jeffrey Grosset's dedication and meticulous attention to fine wine making leading to his recognition by acclaimed Australian wine writer James Halliday in 2008 that the Grosset range are 'benchmarks'.

Clare Valley Brewing Company is the culmination of many beers consumed by business partners Craig Harnett and Ben Jeanneret. Impressed, mostly, by themselves, at just how good a good beer can be, they decided to make the best and tastiest beer they can. Clare Valley Brewing Company is proud of the Clare region and its very fine agriculture and have set out to brew beers of a provincial nature, utilising the best of Clare Valley. Their outlet, Hop and Vine, located in Auburn, also showcases Jeanneret Wines, Good Catholic Girl Wines and County Clare Wines. Make sure you come in and say hello next time you are in the area.

At Simpson Rices Creek visitors can experience a unique blend of the human senses; smell, touch, taste, hear and see the range of products on display. Look over the eight varieties of commercial olive tree. Taste unique flavoured pickled olives and the fresh, spicy, extra virgin olive oils. Taste the rich beautifully blended olive tapenade. Smell and touch the unique range of olive soaps. A huge range of tall, medium and small trees to suit any garden, location and or enterprise. All plants are hardy, drought tolerant and ready to plant. View the fine art works, craft and giftware items available. Select from a wide variety of terracotta, glazed and garden pots. Taste the freshly baked home made cakes and biscuits with fresh plunged coffee. Sit outside amongst the tall gum tree or in the comfort of the cellar door gallery.