ON THE TRAIL

An hour south of “the world’s most livable city”, Melbourne, the Mornington Peninsula has enormous charm and appeal, with a plethora of romantic options including excellent wineries with award-winning vineyard restaurants, quality art galleries, hot springs and spa facilities, and world-class golf courses. There’s also fabulous regional produce, and endless surf and bay beaches – edged with those wonderful, brightly coloured bathing boxes that are so... well, Victorian. So bountiful is the region – with myriad small producers, quality gardens and farms, fresh produce markets, gourmet brewers and wine experiences – that the clever people at Mornington Peninsula Regional Tourism have come up with a user-friendly, fold-out Wine Food Farmgate Trail map and guide, with directions and relevant details. Fortunately for food and wine-lovers, many of the 100-odd farmgates are concentrated around Red