4 Best Sights in Mornington Peninsula, Victoria

The once-private estate of one of the wealthiest men in Australia, Pt. Leo Estate opened to the public in late 2017 with a fine-dining restaurant and winery experience set against dramatic coastal views and enhanced by an ambitious collection of more than 50 large-scale contemporary international and local works dotted along winding paths. Download the audio walk app from Point Leo's website before you visit and plan to spend an entire afternoon exploring. If all that sculpture gets you thirsty, take a break for a wine tasting at the cellar door (or take a glass on your walk). If you can plan ahead, make a reservation at fine-dining Laura, considered one of Victoria's top restaurants. Otherwise, take a table at the bistro next door, Pt. Leo Restaurant, or outside on the casual Wine Terrace, which often has live music and always has glorious views of the vineyard, sculptures, and the bay. The estate offers experiences combining sculpture tours, lunch, and wine tastings.

Home to the peninsula's first Pinot Grigio vines, this popular Italian-theme cellar door is newly refurbished to include a busy, family-friendly restaurant. T'Gallant produces excellent Pinot Noir, Prosecco, and Pinot Gris. If you're an art lover as well as a wine fan, you'll also admire the beautiful artwork on its bottle labels. The on-site pizza bar is always buzzing and the food is exceptional, with dishes made from local ingredients, including items from the house herb garden. Tuck into their signature Roman-style, wood-fired pizzas, a cheese board, or a chocolate ganache brownie paired with its pink Moscato.

Taste wines looking over the vineyards where they were grown at Foxeys, a fun, informal cellar door popular with the weekend lunch crowd (walk-ins only). The range includes its sparkling white and sparkling Shiraz, as well as peninsula's first fully certified biodynamic wines, best tasted with the kitchen's share plates that might feature a barbecued quail or tomato, feta, and mint salad. If you're out of luck getting a table, its sister property, Morning Sun in nearby Main Ridge, serves Italian salumi and cheeses.

This family-owned, boutique winery, established in 1989, has moved to a new Red Hill address and celebrates with a new, Tuscan-inspired farmhouse as its cellar door (try the single-vineyard Pinot Noir) and restaurant—all in a super-scenic setting. The menu taps into the Italian heritage of the owners, the Fabrizio family, with elegant pastas, risottos, and pizzas, along with homemade cannoli.The wine list is a showcase of the estate's talents.