Lou , Author at Margaret River Tours

Best places to eat in Margaret River

By Lou | November 15, 2025

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LOOKING FOR THE BEST PLACES TO EAT IN MARGARET RIVER? We highly recommend that our guests eat something substantial before embarking on a wine tour. Here’s where to find a hearty breakfast before a Margaret River Tours Full Day Gourmet Wine and Dine Tour or lunch before the Half Day Gourmet Wine Tour. Watch Lessilu’s…

Variables and management influence yields of Margaret River Vineyards

By Lou | April 30, 2025

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Unlocking the Potential: Grape Juice Yields and Management of Margaret River Vineyards Margaret River, nestled in Western Australia’s southwest corner, has earned its reputation as one of Australia’s premier wine regions. Beyond exceptional wines, the region’s vineyards also produce significant quantities of high-quality grape juice. Let’s explore the world of grape juice yields in the…

Best of the Best Award 2024!

By Lou | September 11, 2024

The team at Margaret River Tours is honoured to receive the TripAdvisor Best of the Best Award for 2024. The award is a testament to our product and business management but also to our incredible team of drivers. It demonstrates their commitment to deliver an outstanding customer experience every time they guide a tour. As…

Margaret River Chardonnay – fit for a Queen

By Lou | June 11, 2024

Worldwide recognition Margaret River Chardonnay is often referred to as the Queen of Margaret River wine. Margaret River Chardonnays have won countless awards on the world’s wine stages. In the recently published 2024 Halliday Wine Companion Awards, Xanadu Wines 2021 Reserve Chardonnay and 2021 Stevens Road Chardonnay were both rated 97 points. Leeuwin Estate’s Art…

Best tour in Margaret River

By Lou | January 14, 2023

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Margaret River Tours voted number one – Award Winning Wine Tour of Margaret River. The Tourism Council of Western Australia recently announced their exclusive selection of the Top 10 Margaret River Tours. Adam and the team at Margaret River Tours are proud to receive this prestigious award which has been bestowed on them. After more…

Terroir – the soil and toil of Margaret River Wines

By Lou | November 28, 2022

A deep blue skyline makes up two thirds of the image, a line of trees dotted along the horizon in the background, with rows of grapevines in leaf in the midground and some green pasture in the foreground. An example of an east facing sloped vineyard at the north end of the Dunsborough Fault Line in the Margaret River wine region

Terroir (pronounced Tare-Warh), and it’s influence on the flavour of wine is an easily misunderstood and somewhat mysterious word that refers to the uniquely identifiable tastes of a place. For example, wines made in the Margaret River wine region, particularly those made from a single variety, without blending, may display identifiable characteristics of the exact…

The sweet finish with a strange beginning

By Lou | May 24, 2021

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In the Margaret River wine region, a popular style of wine that features botrytis is known as cane cut, named after the technique of cutting the fruiting canes and leaving them to hang while the sweetness and flavour of the berries concentrates. Cane cut wines can be made from many different varietals and is a labour of love for many winemakers. The resulting mini-sized bottles of joy are a delicious finale to special dinners or cheese platters and are likely to cellar very well. Securing a few of Margaret River’s ‘noble stickies’ is a great investment, either to drink now or save for a rainy day.

Why do winemakers use oak?

By Lou | September 19, 2020

A woman with long orange-red hair and wearing a brown jacket is standing side on and looking towards the camera in the centre and foreground and on either side of her the ends of four wine barrels showing that she is standing in the barrel room of Leeuwin Estate winery

An oaked (or wooded) wine may be an acquired taste, but is a highly prized flavour for many wine lovers. Oak barrel fermentation adds a range of flavours to wine including vanilla, cloves, butter, popcorn, toast, spice and char. Oak also provides complexity to a wine’s aroma and taste. The porous nature of oak allows…

Halliday’s outstanding 2019 reviews of our partners

By Lou | November 22, 2018

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Margaret River Tours are very proud of our partnerships with some of the Margaret River Wine Region’s most popular wineries. The latest James Halliday’s Australian Wine Companion 2019 has awarded many of our partners with glowing reviews for their top tier wines. The Halliday Wine Companion is widely regarded as the industry benchmark and his…

Top choice in Margaret River

By Lou | April 14, 2018

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Rosé style in focus

By Lou | February 7, 2018

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Rosé is not a variety of wine, but rather a style of wine. So what is a rosé style wine it and how is it made? Rosé is produced from red grape varieties and made in the same way as red wine, but with less grape skin contact. Rosé can be made in various ways,…

Lessilu reviews the Original and Best Margaret River wine tour

By Lou | January 14, 2018

A womans hand is taking a small slice of grilled chorizo from the Farmhouse served to her on a wooden serving tray which has another eight slices of chorizo plus some oil marks left behind where other people had taken a sample

A few years ago we hosted social media influencer Lessilu on our tour. Lessilu’s review demonstrates what Margaret River Tours’ customers can expect when they join one of our fun and informative wine tours. A few things have changed, such as our itinerary here and there, like we now visit Temper Temper chocolatier in Cowaramup…

What are wine ratings and do they matter?

By Lou | January 13, 2018

A woman wearing a black shirt looking intently with a red wine tasting in her hand and a man in the foreground wearing a light blue collared shirt smelling a red wine tasting at the Leeuwin Estate cellar door

What exactly are wine ratings? Over the years a number of systems have been tried and tested in an attempt to rate a wine in a way that will inform consumers about the quality of a wine. Ratings are used to compare wines and also helpful as a method of describing the characteristics and cellaring…

50 Years Young

By Lou | January 4, 2018

A black and white image of Tom Cullity the original vigneron at Vasse Felix wearing a black beret and black rimmed glasses, knee length gum boots, baggy black pants and a white shirt He is standing alongside and in front of rowsof some very small grape vines and one of them he is holding a growing runner up to a wire. The soild is very gravelly and peppered with weeds. In the background there are some large eucalyptus trees that border the fledgling vineyard. It is said that at the time Tom was aged 43, a frequently used iconic image when visually demonstrating thehistory of Margaret River wine region

Farewell 2017 – the year we celebrated 50 years of commercial winemaking in Margaret River. As we await the ripening, picking and pressing of the 2018 vintage in the Margaret River Wine Region, I thought it might be of interest to reflect on the history of the region so far. In 2017 Vasse Felix celebrated…

A ZigaZag Review For Margaret River Tours

By Lou | December 2, 2017

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Find out exactly what its like to join a Margaret River wine tour with Margaret River Tours by reading this blog post on ZigaZag written by Jo Castro. Learn about how it all began and what it means to Adam and the team to be sharing and promoting the region, offering their wealth of experience…

Marrying wine with food, how to find the perfect match.

By Lou | November 14, 2017

A chef's hand with gold ring places a micro green garnish on a white plate containing blackened salmon, an orange sauce and some accompanying food items that are hard to say exactly what they are, an opaque vegetable or perhaps a softened rice noodle, some crumbled cheese or perhaps cauliflower and what appears to be some pinenuts or chopped hazelnuts. In the background a chef's preparation bench is blurred but still able to be distinguished

Like most wine ‘rules’ the traditional wine and food pairings are only suggestions. Depending on your individual preferences, the weather and the time of day, you might experiment to find which wines you prefer to enjoy with which food. There is no reason to follow traditions, but If you’ve got an upcoming dinner party or…