Location
A true “venue with a difference” the 1860’s bluestone winery is conveniently located at Sunbury in a tranquil rural environment surrounded by vineyard and terraced gardens. We are just:

  • 10 minutes from Tullamarine International Airport
  • 30 minutes from Melbourne Central Business District
  • close to City Link linking the Eastern Suburbs, the Western Ring Road, the Hume Highway and the Calder Freeway

Melways map 382 reference H-5.

Activities
For team building or just for fun we offer:
• Contemporary cuisine of a high standard
• Tutored wine tastings
• Wine trivia and wine options games
• Adjoining 18 hole golf course

Facilities
All audio-visual equipment is available on request to cater for:
• Day seminars and meetings
• Product launches
• Theme dinners
• Social programs for Conference and Incentive groups
• All corporate entertaining requirements

Accommodation
None on-site, but a full range exists at nearby Melbourne Airport:
• Melbourne Airport Hilton
• Holiday Inn
• Formula 1

And in Sunbury itself:
• Sunbury Motel
• Midtown Motel
• Numerous B&B’s

Details available from Sunbury Tourist Information Centre Tel: (03) 9744 2291

Room Configurations
Goona Warra offers 2 magnificent rooms for various uses, both with excellent natural acoustics and PA systems. Ground floor access is available to both rooms. Both rooms can be configured to client’s requirements.

Ground floor access, centrally heated, microphone and PA system, licensed bar. Intimate atmosphere with its central timber columns and decorative barrel stacks.  Suited for smaller meetings, informal lunches, refreshment breaks and for winetastings to conclude your session.

Accessed by stair from the Cellar below, plus direct vehicular access to an upper courtyard.  Fully airconditioned, fully carpeted, with stage, microphone and PA system and licensed bar.  A magnificent room with soaring floodlit ceiling, suited to larger seminars, dinners and dinner dances.

Packages

Standard equipment such as whiteboard, flipchart, screen are provided. Other AV equipment can be arranged for hire. Alcoholic beverages extra.
Prices quoted are current to end 2006, are inclusive of GST and are subject to any future increases (which Patrons agree to pay, referable to increases in supplies or the cost of living generally).

Winemakers Day Package $55pp

Freshly brewed coffee and tea on arrival ~ Delicious morning and afternoon tea ~ Working style fingerfood lunch ~  Conferencing Room and basic equipment 

Grapepickers Day Package $60pp

Freshly brewed coffee and tea on arrival ~ Delicious morning and afternoon tea ~ Platter style lunch ~  Conferencing Room and basic equipment

Provincial Day Package $65pp/2 course or $75pp 3 course luncheon

Freshly brewed coffee and tea on arrival ~ Delicious morning and afternoon tea ~ Formal sitdown lunch ~  Conferencing Room and basic equipment (*click through to wedding/function menu?)

Half Day Package P.O.A.

Use of room (eg 9am – 1pm or 1pm to 5pm up to 70 delegates) ~ Freshly brewed coffee and tea on arrival one refreshment break  ~  Conferencing Room and basic equipment

Additional Option

  • Winetasting of our Estate grown and produced wines (at end of your session) $6.50pp/half hour $9.00/hour
  • Canapes with your winetasting $4.50pp
  • Tutored Winetasting with our Winemaker P.O.A. (minimum one hour session available)
  • Wine Trivia and Wine Options Games P.O.A.
    For an evening that is fun and that your guests will go away talking about –why not incorporate some games we have developed – and neither requires very much wine knowledge.

    WINE OPTIONS GAMES: where the winner is the last person left standing, and receives the prize –maybe a bottle of the masked wine.  Each game 10 to 15 minutes (up to 3 games).

    WINE TRIVIA GAMES which can include musical trivia related to wine (great fun and really gets everyone going.  The music trivia requires no wine but a number of table prizes. 

Luncheon Menu Options
WINEMAKERS Lunch:
Soup of the day

Assorted bread rolls with a selection of fillings:
smoked salmon, capers and red onion
roast beef, horseradish and rocket
tuna with salad greens
chicken, celery and walnut
egg mayonnaise
chargrilled vegetables and basil pesto
smoked ham with dijon mustard
prawns and wasabi mayonnaise

To finish (select one)
chefs selection of assorted pastries and tarts
fresh fruit platter

Beverages
orange juice and soft drinks, freshly brewed teas and coffee

GRAPEPICKERS PLATTER LUNCH

Savoury platters selection:
(select 4 – additional selections $2.50 pp per selection)
field mushroom risotto with parmesan
szechwan chicken with sesame seed mayonnaise
tomato, mozzarella and herb pizza slice
roast pumpkin and pesto foccacia
chicken and prawn japanese dim sims
tuscan bean and vegetable soup
smoked salmon and spinach frittata
malaysian coconut chicken with jasmine rice
peppered rib of beef served cold with horseradish mayonnaise
penne with tomato ragu and parmesan
asparagus and blue cheese tart

and

Cheese platter with seasonal fruits, fruit and nut bread,
water crackers and our quince paste

Beverages
orange juice and soft drinks, freshly brewed teas and coffee