Lots of Attractions in the area - Lots of Great Reasons to Visit!

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Food and Wine

For your evening meal try the local pub, the Caledonian Hotel, which offers elegant dining with superb food and wine, five evenings a week [Wednesday to Sunday, inclusive]. Telephone 03 5826 2450 to make a reservation - or Gale and Andrew will book a table on your behalf.
The Caledonian is in Murchison town centre - just one (1) minute walk from Brecon House.

Wineries

The area is a major Victorian wine-making centre with many cellar doors open for visits and tasting. Here are a few that you can sample within easy driving distance from Brecon House.

Award winning Murchison Wines at picturesque Longleat Estate, is only 2 mins drive down the road from Brecon House [or a 15 minute walk for the energetic]. Established in 1975, Murchison Wines vineyard is planted on the west bank of the Goulburn River. This beautiful winery is owned and operated by Guido and Sandra Vazzoler.
Guido is a qualified winemaker - come and taste for yourself the quality of his product. Sandra is a cheesemaker - and so Longleat also boasts a casual café which specialises in cheese platters and good coffee.
The cellar door is nestled amongst the vines, providing a tranquil setting for wine and cheese tasting. Come and relax under the vine-covered pergola - and enjoy!

Tahbilk [15 mins] is one of the oldest wineries in Australia with Mitchelton [20 mins] very close by.
Twelve Acres [20 mins] is a small local winery specialising in red wine and at Plunkett Wines [25 mins] everything is grown, made and bottled on the estate.

Other Attractions
Nagambie with its lake, for water sports, and its weir [15 mins]; also the Waranga Basin [10 mins], which are part of the area's irrigation system, provide boating and fishing.

Wetlands.
Masses of birds, fish, insects, frogs and a great variety of plants, are found in the floodplain wetlands of the Murray-Darling basin. These backwaters, billabongs, marshes swamps and lakes are places of intense biological activity.
In Murchison there is the virtually untouched splendour of 'Doctor's Swamp' and in Tatura there is 'Cussen Park', which is a reborn Wetland that is now a remarkable, accessible, park with bird-watching hides. Come and see it but remember to leave only your footprints!

Gold mining - nearby Rushworth has a Heritage listed main street and there is the Balaclava Gold Mine at neighbouring Whroo [15 mins].

Skydiving at Kirwan's Bridge [10 mins].

Murchison is a great place for a stopover to stock up on good cheap fruit. At the heart of Australia's food bowl, the major fruit preservers and food canners SPC-Ardmona [25 mins], Campbell Soups [35 mins] are located within easy reach in nearby Shepparton. They both have factory outlets where you can bag a bargain!

Shepparton [25 mins] is a major provincial city.

A major centre of wineries, dairy farming and fruit growing.