Over the last 12 months we’ve seen a shift in the way that wineries in the region are operating, in that they are now for the most part charging tasting fees for guests. We personally are not against a redeemable tasting fee to be charged by wineries as we generally buy wine when we go tasting and if we don’t then it gets us off the hook of a ‘pity buy’ where we buy the cheapest wine to avoid that guilty feeling we get for not purchasing. We generally disagree with a tasting

MR & MRS GRAPE UPDATE We have had a busy few months with so many tours over the long weekend in March and over Easter. Grape Escape turned 1 in March – we have had so much fun this past 12 months setting up the business and settling into our new lives living in Margaret River! We have had nearly 1200 people tour with us since we began last year which is pretty epic considering up until now it has been just us two running the tours! Now we are even starting to see some familia

What a beautiful time of year, the weather is finally starting to warm up, the wildflowers are out and we couldn’t be happier! That sure was a long, cold & wet winter – our first winter living in Margaret River and who would’ve thought it could be so different to Perth winter? We had to buy a fireplace and drink SO much red wine just to keep ourselves from getting hypothermia! After a long and gruelling submission process which caused a lot of excess wine drinking – we are ex

We have been busy kicking things off since our inaugural tours on the March long weekend – what a ride it has been so far! Settling into life is difficult, all the wine we need to drink (because research) and eating out at every possible venue in the region (also because research) has made for a tough few months. However as a result, we think we have pretty much got things sussed now and ironed out the last few kinks. In saying that, the job never ends, there are new wineries