Foxeys Hangout in Red Hill, Victoria | Winery/Vineyard
Foxeys Hangout
Locality: Red Hill, Victoria
Phone: +61 3 5989 2022
Address: 795 Whitehill Road 3937 Red Hill, VIC, Australia
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24.01.2022 WELCOME BACK We’re (almost) open! Wine tastings from this Wednesday, lunch resumes this Friday and yes, we’ll be here for lunch on Cup Day. Our maximum group size is 4 people.... We remain a walk-in venue and do not accept bookings for meals. We’ll aim to serve your meal over the course of around one hour. The kitchen will take last meal orders at 4pm. We remain open for take-home wine sales daily 11am5pm (wine tastings Wed-Thurs), lunch and take-home food every FriSat-Sun-Mon.
23.01.2022 FOXEYS REOPENING NOVEMBER 2 The track to ‘Covid normal’ is getting clearer: we reopen for sit-down lunches on Monday November 2 and on Cup Day, November 3. (Maybe a little earlier, depending on next Sunday’s announcements if so, we’ll let you know via our website and social channels.) We’re still a walk-in venue we do not take lunch bookings. Maximum table/group size 4 people.... Doors open 11am and we’ll aim to serve your lunch over a period of about 1 hour. Our opening hours will return to normal after Cup Day: lunches and wine tastings FriSatSunMon; wine tastings only TuesWedThurs, 11am5pm. See more
23.01.2022 WHAT A YEAR! It has been quite a year at Foxeys - but what a great summer! From our family to yours thank you for visiting over the summer break. We appreciate your support after a very different year.
22.01.2022 TAKE FLIGHT It is sometimes difficult to fit in a wine tasting before lunch due to the tables being in high demand. But we do have an option for a self-guided wine flight at your table. You may love only whites, or reds, or sparkling. If you are more adventurous you can even choose the discovery flight.
21.01.2022 PINOT BLENDING MASTERCLASS Just a few places left to join our winemakers behind the scenes this weekend for a private sampling of pinot barrels from our three certified organic-biodynamic vineyards, then experiment with blending your personal bottle of pinot to take home. We’ll package it up while you and your guest enjoy lunch. Phone us on 03 5989 2022 to secure one of three places remaining in these exclusive masterclasses (Saturday or Sunday); $250 includes lunch for two in our barrel room and your personal bottle.
21.01.2022 FESTIVE TASTES Stocking up for the festive season? Gift shopping? Just thirsty? Call in midweek (Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays) between 11am and 5pm for a leisurely wine tasting without the weekend lunch crowds. Note there’s no kitchen service midweek, just tastings from the current, delicious Foxeys range.
20.01.2022 ONE FOXEY MINUTE Tessa Gillies is up next in our quick Q & A with Foxey staffers. --... Role at Foxeys: Cook, waitress, tractor driver, Tony support mechanism Favourite Foxey wine of the moment: Riesling - not too sweet, not too savoury, perfect for sitting on the porch in the afternoon watching the world go by Go-to lockdown snack: Scones, jam and cream When restrictions lift, I will.... live life exactly as if restrictions were still in place Secret ninja skill: Morse code (only in Norwegian)
20.01.2022 WELCOME BACK, VICTORIA Goodbye ‘Ring of Steel’, hello drinks at Red Hill! Come Covid-safe and dressed for all weathers we look forward to seeing you back. Please bear in mind that: Our current maximum group size is 4 people.... We remain a walk-in venue and do not accept bookings for meals. We’ll aim to serve your meal over the course of around one hour. Kitchen takes last meal orders at 4pm. We’re still open for take-home wine sales daily 11am5pm with tastings only Tues-Wed-Thurs and lunch every FriSat-Sun-Mon. #WelcomeBack #FoxeysBack
18.01.2022 TASTING IS BACK It has been a long time between wine tastings. We have created a new space for guests to taste our beautiful wines among some of our amazing French oak barrels.... Foxeys is open for tastings 7 days from 11am to 5pm, while our kitchen is still open 11am to 4pm Friday through to Monday (and a bonus Melbourne Cup Tuesday). If you are within our 25km radius, we invite you to come back to enjoy Foxeys again just before restrictions ease further and all of Melbourne is open again. We can’t wait to see you.
17.01.2022 GRAND FINAL FOOTY PACK For your Grand Final viewing pleasure, a couch-friendly Foxey Footy pack comprising 4 x mushroom sausage rolls, 4 x pork sausage rolls, cheese and a mini-baguette plus your choice of Red Fox pinot gris, pinot noir or shiraz. All up, $90 includes daytime delivery on the Mornington Peninsula on Saturday 24 October. Call us on 5989 2022 to pre-book your pack by close of business this Friday 23 October.
17.01.2022 IN THE CLUB? Our next Wine Club dispatch is fast approaching and it’s a front-row seat for sampling our current best sellers, single-vineyard and limited-release wines. Be invited to exclusive wine club barrel tastings, twilight and harvest events. Club wine packs start at $185 per quarter, delivered straight to your door. Sign up online or speak to our friendly wine club manager Chris for more information.
16.01.2022 SIMPLY RED Down near the creek with the little red mower-trailer, picking pinot in the White Gates vineyard. Captured from above this time last year by photographer Adrian Lander, with this shot featured in his and co-creator Fiona Hammond’s beautiful cookbook GATHER (on sale at the Foxeys cellar door).
14.01.2022 ONE FOXEY MINUTE Say hello to Katie Lee, the next up in our quick Q & A series with faces you may know from Foxeys. --... Role at Foxeys: Cooking, keeping Tony in check Favourite Foxey wine of the moment: Red Lilac chardonnay has my heart. Go-to lockdown snack: Spicy popcorn. Try popping the corn kernels in Chiu Chow chilli oil, it’s a game changer. When restrictions lift, I will Drink a real beer from a real tap in a real brewery. Secret ninja skill: Creating an ever-expanding range of questionable ice-cream flavours.
13.01.2022 FOXEY SUMMER HOURS Closed Christmas Day. Open every day from Boxing Day to Australia Day, 11am5pm. Wine sales, tastings and lunch served daily. ... As always, please just walk in no bookings. Maximum group size is 4 people. We’ll aim to serve your meal over the course of about 1 hour. See you there!
13.01.2022 IN THE ZONE If your place is within 25 kilometres of Foxeys, swing by, say hi and pick up some food and wine to take away. For now, we’re still open daily from 11am5pm for take-home food and wine sales see menu attached.
13.01.2022 LAST PICKS Captured by a cellar door favourite, Rick, this image shows the last of the shiraz fruit we picked from the Brown family’s vineyard near Hastings. We love this vineyard for our shiraz dry, sandy soils stress the vines ever so slightly. This helps produce low-yielding fruit but with great flavour concentration, helping make the shiraz a perennial favourite at our cellar door and a past winner of major wine trophies. We’re keen to see how this 2021 vintage fares!
12.01.2022 MERRY CHRISTMAS From everyone at Foxeys, a huge thank you for helping us stay afloat in a year that has presented you, and us, with too many not-so-merry moments. Wherever you find yourself this Christmas, we wish you a safe and joyful festive season and a sunnier 2021. Michael, Tony and the Foxeys team... . . . . . . #foxeyshangout #morningtonpeninsula #lunch #summer #vineyardviews #winery #pinotnoir #chardonnay #sparklingwine #christmas #MerryChristmas
11.01.2022 END OF VINTAGE This week marks the end of our 2021 vintage. Now the grapes are all picked and it’s safe to burn off, we shared celebration drinks around a bonfire in the paddock above our White Gates vineyard. 2021 was a cool and late vintage but we should see some beautiful, bright pinot noirs and lovely, crisp chardonnays something to look forward to in 2022.
10.01.2022 TUESDAY 26 JANUARY Open? Why yes, we are! This Tuesday the 26th marks the end of our holiday-period program of serving lunches 7 days. Join us for something to eat and drink before we revert to our normal trading hours?
07.01.2022 THIEVING WAYS What do we use to check how wines are ageing while they’re still in the barrel? A thief that’s what winemaking folk call the hollow stainless steel implement Chris and Tony are using here to draw a sample from a barrel of chardonnay. (And yes, we’re happy to report it’s coming along nicely.) Thanks, Marshall, for snapping this behind-the-scenes pic!
07.01.2022 CUSTOM SPARKLING CLASSES They’re back! Get hands-on in the winery and create your own customised bottle of Foxeys sparkling in a private tutorial with sparkling winemaker Michael Lee. As always, these special sessions are by appointment you’ll find more details and info on how to book on our website. #MikesBubbles #Melbournetodo #broadsheet
06.01.2022 PENINSULA WEEKEND For all of you who are within our 25km radius - now is the ideal time for you to come and visit our kitchen and cellar door before the rest of Victoria can come down. With no rain expected this weekend, our vineyard views will be the perfect backdrop for your weekend.
04.01.2022 LONG WEEKEND LUNCHES Yes, we’re open for lunch and tastings every day right up to and including Tuesday 26 January, 11am5pm. No, we’re not taking bookings as always, please just walk on in (max. group size 4) and if we can find you a seat, we happily will. From Wednesday 27 January, we revert to our regular opening hours: lunches FriSatSunMon, wine tastings TuesWedThurs.
04.01.2022 CLUB CLASS Current and preview releases delivered to your door every quarter plus museum wines and members’ discounts and perks. Sound good? It’s not too late to join the Foxeys Wine Club in time for our summer seasonal delivery arriving with members in early December. The ‘Wine Club’ page on our website has all the details and is the spot to sign up. #WineClub #SummerWines
03.01.2022 OPEN FOR TASTINGS Not many sleeps to go! We’re here this Tuesday and Wednesday and on Christmas Eve for tastings and wine sales (no lunches). Swing by between 11am and 5pm if we can help you with festive supplies for your cellar or gifts (like this Christmas pack) for wine-loving friends. Maybe treat yourself to a wine club membership, too? PS We’re closed Christmas Day, back Boxing Day with lunches and wine tastings, every day until Australia Day.
01.01.2022 LAST-MINUTE GIFT VOUCHERS Unique, delicious and sorted in 3 simple steps: 1. Call into the Foxeys online store and choose a voucher. 2. Print, fold, add your own ribbon and gift tag or forward via email.... 3. Pour a glass of vino and put your feet up. Vouchers can be redeemed for our customised sparkling sessions (plus lunch, if you’d like), or for a bottle or several of Foxeys’ finest.
01.01.2022 AUTUMN GLORY Every year, throughout the weeks of harvest, we watch the Japanese maple behind our winery turn from green to yellow and orange, then fiery red. The leaves’ message? The time for picking and pressing is over: winter is not far away.
