2010 March

Published Feb 25th, 2010

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In This Issue:

WINNER: Who won a complimentary
romantic package. Announced April 14th 2010

Yarra Valley Secrets:
The end of summer and we uncover a secret with a snowy cap.

Yarra Valley News: An organic weekend away in May.

Yarra Valley Events: Hot Cars, Hot Motorbikes, Racing Picnics and Hot Salsa Rhythms.

Package Deals: Look out for the next newsletter. We’ll be giving away another Romantic Package.

Come and visit Strathvea in Autumn

The Strathvea gardens in autumn really are spectacular. The Oaks, Copper Beeches, Golden Elms, Chestnuts, Tulip trees, Japanese Maples steal the show!

Our gorgeous 1920′s garden is awash with orange, red and gold.

Also alive with color will be the CJ Dennis Singing Gardens and Tearooms, just 5 minutes away!
Also 5 minutes away the Toolangi Tavern has made a name for itself across Melbourne for stunning views, stunning food and cheap prices.
At Strathvea we include an organic country breakfast in every booking, so you’ll eat well.
You’ll have company… Our resident flock of cockatoos, rosellas and king parrots provide a visual display of color and movement outside the dining room window
Our deluxe queen ensuite rooms are spacious and contemporary with lovely garden outlooks..

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Featured Winery

With the recent scandals surrounding fake ‘Pinot’ we are shining our spotlight on a Yarra Valley Winery that creates a range of 100% Pinot to a degree of excellent that far surpasses the entry level price tags.

Little Yering Pinot Noir ’08 is one to look out for when your dining in Restaurants.While Yering Station is just out of Yarra Glen, and presents itself as a complete day trip experience.

Great wine to taste, friendly and knowledgeable staff, gardens, a cafe, a Yarra Valley produce store, a restaurant and private dining rooms.

Yarra Valley Flashback 1876

For a month I have been absent from my accustomed haunts. The sixpenny restaurant which I patronise, and the hotel in a back street where I swipe colonial beer, and play “forty fives,” “yankee-grab,” and such vagabond games, have languished for want of my support. The nymphs in the vestibules have been free from my scathing glances…

…having for a month been resident at the Kew and Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylums. Que diable allaisje faire dans cette galère ? Not that it is at all surprising that a vagabond should become a lunatic – gaols and asylums are his natural destinations. But not as a patient have I spent my time in these institutions. The evil of the present system of patronage and policatical influence in securing government appointments is forcibly illustrated by the fact that from the 15th of June till the 15th of July, I held the post of attendant at the Asylums, at a salary of £1 a week…

…Next to intemperance, religious mania appears to be the most fertile cause in filling our asylums. Many imagine and proudly proclaim they are Jesus.

…The ground… affords a magnificent view over Heidelberg and the Yarra Valley, far away to the Dandenong Ranges. In fair weather or in foul, this is a magnificent prospect, rich in trees and greenery brightened or subdued by varying lights and shades. It is a good land and a fertile which the Lord has given us to inherit, and the sight of which even a poor madman may enjoy.

Excerpts from an article in ‘The Argus’ newspaper

Saturday 22 July 1876

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