Olleyville

You can smell wood-fire as soon as you get out of your vehicle at Shaw Vineyard Estate. This cool climate winery is located in Murrumbateman, right between Canberra and Yass. You’re in luck if your vehicle happens to be a Tesla, as they’ve thoughtfully provided two charging stations in a tumbledown shack. It’s a wonderful juxtaposition of old meeting new. The equally picturesque corrugated iron shearing shed is also dual purpose, interspersing the serious estate business of shearing sheep, with time as a pop-up art gallery; showcasing the neighbour’s artistic endeavours against the heady waft of lanolin.

We take a winding path past a row of sulphur-crested cockatoo sculptures on fence-posts, and blooming gardens alive with buzzing bees, to arrive at the ...read more