What to Expect 

The Wine & Canapé Flight is best approached as a ‘choose your own adventure’ introduction to food and wine pairing. The experience begins with a glass of the Estate’s reserve sparkling wine before moving through five Mandoon Estate wines, each matched with a canapé-sized dish. Guests might notice how acidity cuts through smoked salmon, how Chardonnay complements richer elements, or how the sweetness of the Estate’s rosé lifts tomato on focaccia. There’s no formal instruction or critical judgement. Instead, guests are encouraged to taste, reflect and decide for themselves what works and why, making it an especially welcoming experience for beginners.

For a more immersive afternoon, The Perfect Blend invites guests behind the scenes of winemaking itself. The experience begins with guided tastings of the Old Vine Shiraz, Old Vine Grenache and Cabernet Sauvignon, each explored on its own before any blending begins. Then, working with measured 100ml pours and a structured, lab-style worksheet, guests record tasting notes and preferences, learning how structure, aromatics and balance shift when wines are combined. With an expert host guiding the process, blends are refined and adjusted until each guest arrives at their ideal composition. The final blend is then bottled, gassed and sealed, finished with a personalised Mandoon Estate label to take home.

What’s Special

What distinguishes Mandoon’s experiences is their emphasis on participation. Rather than prescribing what guests should taste or enjoy, the team creates space for exploration, encouraging confidence in personal preference in a world of wine that is often seen as intimidating.

Both experiences demystify wine without diluting it, offering structure where helpful, freedom where it matters, and leaving guests more curious about wine than when they arrived.