Vineyards & Wineries
Handpicked Cellar Door
Closed until Saturday
10:00 am - 10:00 pm
50 Kensington St
Chippendale, NSW, 2008
Handpicked Urban wineries in the heart of Chippendale in the thriving dining precinct on Kensington Street. A cellar door on your doorstep a large space with an industrial feel, complete with a wine store, wine vats, tables for you to enjoy the fruits of the urban wineries or enjoy a tasting at the bar. The winemakers ‘handpick’ fine wine from famous wine regions around the world and craft it in the style of the region it represents. This will let you travel the world one wine at a time without leaving Sydney. Wines are from Australia; New South Wales, SA, Vic, WA, Tas as well as Italy, Chile and France.
Building upon ground cut by Mudgee’s di Lusso Estate nearly a decade before, the team from Handpicked Wines have brought their cellar door to the city. In the elegant, Kensington Street space, smooth Scandinavian-inspired design sits comfortably over the building’s postindustrial brewery remnants. The large room is split between wine lounge and bottle shop; separated by curved tasting bars where you can pull up a comfortable stool and embark upon a tasting adventure for between ten and twenty bucks. By dropping coin on a tasting - we did the Explorer Tasting ($20/6 wines) - the pressure is removed from you having to make a purchase to justify taking up so much of the staff member's time. Beyond proximity, what makes the Handpicked Cellar Door more interesting than other cellar doors is that it draws in wines from their three vineyards located in key winemaking areas – the Yarra Valley, the Barossa Valley and the Mornington Peninsula. In ...read more