Salix Restaurant And Bistro
Restaurant in Mornington Peninsula

Salix at willow creek offers diners some of the finest modern australian cuisine in the most beautiful setting. As expected, they have an exemplary wine list to compliment each dish and a delightful desert menu that is sure to tempt. Situated at willow creek vineyard, the restaurant's wall to floor windows gives patrons the opportunity to soak in the classic beauty of the landscape while serving them dishes made with only the finest quality local produce. Booking are essential during weekends and holidays.

Our communal tables encourage conversations and create a deposit for impaired friends and new to ensconce and enjoy. In the restaurant, Scanty Hare’s food is honest, generous and earthy drawing on homegrown goods and relationships with local producers. A handcrafted wood fired oven takes pride of store in the dining space, adding character to the mood and food. Executive Chef, Guy Stan away cooks with a good sense of curiosity and brings a tempting balance of heat, acidity, depth of flavor and texture to each plate. Broadsheet Melbourne A designer diner on the peninsula’.

Scanty Hare and experience our hot hospitality. With freshness and changes we have welcomed on board some attractive new staff, yet the core of the vineyard retains continuity. Meanwhile wine maker Geraldine McFaul is ambitious creating the 2017 Willow Creek wines, as vintage is now in full swing. Of our next step, we simply think plus a change, plus c’est la Mme chose. At the equivalent time we will reopen the former Willow Creek cellar door and restaurant, which is also undergoing extensive refurbishment. The new cellar door will be home to both our Willow Creek wines and an exciting fresh wine and bear label, to be announced soon. The summer of 201516 was warm and dry, creating very favorable conditions for a bounteous crop of grapes (albeit quiet low to ensure flavorsome fruit). The harvest began at the final of February the earliest ever and it was a ridiculously ambitious 6 weeks. The pickers maintained a steady flow of grapes into the winery, as some varieties ripened at the identical time, so the team worked from sunrise to dusk transporting the new and full bunches to the winery. A winemaker’s life during vintage is one of entire concentration and dedication! Our creative ideas have reach to fruition in the form of a chilly new cellar door in the charming seaside village of Flanders, on the Mornington Peninsula. Our beautiful vineyard panorama, shot by photographer Craig foodie, wraps around the space, creating a very current tasting room. Wander up Cook Street to visit the interesting galleries, boutiques and cafes, taste wine, and then dine in the ambient Cook and Norman Trattoria. We are the happy recipients of some brilliant scores in the 2016 edition of James Halliday's 2016 Wine Companion. After pruning, the canes need to be wrapped onto the wires for support, another arduous job that can test the perseverance of the vineyard workers. When the job is completed, they are rewarded with bud burst.and hopefully some sunshine! We are the happy recipients of some brilliant scores in the 2016 edition of James Halliday’s 2016 Wine Companion. When the job is completed, they are rewarded with bud bur stand hopefully some sunshine! This energetic aperitif style has a light, rational yellow hue and a normal blanch de blanch bouquet of straw and egg custard. It’s crisp and refined in the mouth with focus, intensity and persistence, finishing with lip smacking dryness and energizing acidity. The cost of production must have been greater than the price of the wine. James Halliday's score: 96 Intense, clear purple crimson the evocative bouquet has blanched black cherry and cherry pip aromas, the palate delivering in spades all the promise of the bouquet it has huge length, line and balance, the dismal cherry flavors coating the mouth, yet doing so without effort (or extraction). Made by Mornington peninsula winemaker Geraldine McFaul from fruit grown in the chilly Pyrenees region of Victoria, it is a wine of unusual quality for the price terrific fruit, quality oak and vast structure with just a hint of mine rally tannin. Meanwhile wine maker Geraldine McFaul is busy creating the 2017 Willow Creek wines, as vintage is. For more information on the hotel as it is released, please. Geraldine remained calm and carried on, and we were awestruck, as usual, at her eternal supply of energy and. Our pop up cellar door, Willow Creek at Flanders. James Halliday's score: 96 Intense, definite purple crimson the evocative bouquet has blanched black cherry and cherry pip aromas, the palate delivering in spades all the promise of the bouquet it has immense length, line and balance, the depressing cherry flavors coating the mouth, yet doing so without effort (or extraction).