The first thing you’ll notice is the birdlife. From the wraparound verandah of this rambling farmhouse, spot blue wrens frolicking in the orange grove or pelicans coasting over Lake Moodemere.

The menu is worth a good look, too, for details such as estate-grown wheat in the delightfully springy focaccia, and rosy, tender racks of home-raised lamb alongside tempura cauliflower and foraged nettle puree.

Simple, ingredient-centric cooking is the play in ham-hock ravioli: a single plump parcel cloaked in a velvety sauce of Rutherglen chestnuts that offsets the pasta’s salty filling.

In warmer months you’ll want to take dessert on that verandah, perhaps with a muscat from the 130-year- old vineyard. Paired with a spot of birdwatching, of course.