Penola & Wrattonbully Wine Day
Heritage cottages, a saintly story and the rising reds of Wrattonbully
The plan
Penola packs a remarkable amount into a small town: Australia's first saint began her work here, the streetscape preserves colonial cottages, and the surrounding country grows some of the Limestone Coast's most respected wine. This day balances heritage and the glass.
Wander Petticoat Lane and the Mary MacKillop sites in the morning, lunch in town, then drift out to a couple of friendly cellar doors before finishing among the limestone ridges of the rising Wrattonbully district.
Day 1
6 stops-
1Penola
Petticoat Lane Heritage Walk
Start in Penola's oldest streetscape of restored cottages.
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6Naracoorte
Wrattonbully Wine District
Finish among the rising limestone-ridge vineyards of Wrattonbully.
On the map
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Image credits
- Winter vineyard in Coonawarra.JPG by ScottDavis , CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons