Seville Estate
Picture this: a cellar door in the Yarra Valley where you sip and savour some of Victoria’s best wines while drinking in a view that takes in vineyards, paddocks and misted mountaintops.
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65 Linwood Rd, Seville
(03) 5964 2622
sevilleestate.com.au
Picture this: a cellar door in the Yarra Valley where you sip and savour some of Victoria’s best wines while drinking in a view that takes in vineyards, paddocks and misted mountaintops.
That’s what you get at Seville Estate ... and that’s before you even sit down to a meal.
Seville’s restaurant – all pale timber and picture windows – is as enchanting, an informal space managed by a front-of-house team whose enthusiasm for the district and its charms is infectious.
Tucked down a dirt road, on a landscaped ridge, Seville Estate was named 2019 Winery of the Year by wine doyen James Halliday.
The best way to enjoy its premium pinot and chardonnay, and ever-evolving dishes, is to order the ‘Feed Me’ menu with matching wines.
That way you surrender to the expertise of general manager and winemaker Dylan McMahon and his two chefs, and get a bead on their produce-driven thinking.
Our lunch begins with Turkish bread, and radishes with a caper and garlic emulsion.
Then out come coins of duck ‘ham’ anointed with pickled watermelon and watercress, pot-stickered gnocchi, crunchy with smoked almond, and gelatinous pork belly roofed with crackling and basking in a broth.
In every case, the cooking is unpretentious and exact, spanking-fresh ingredients either plucked from the garden or sourced from local providores.
To finish, there is an apple and rhubarb ‘mess’ spliced with shards of ginger meringue. Inspiring.
Like the wine and the service.
What a find.
Must-eat dish: Duck ham with pickled watermelon
Cuisine: Contemporary
Chefs: Daniel Bell and Soren Thogersen
Price: $$
Bookings: Yes
Open: Dinner Fri-Sat, lunch Fri-Sun
BYO: No
Instagram: @seville_estate