Events
- Arbor Day 2008 - Families Welcome!
- Vintage & Classic Day - Sunday 27th April 2008
- Earth Hour - Saturday March 29th 2008
- "Vine to Wine" event in Cellar Door
- Fiesta! 2007
- Arbor Day at the Wetlands
- Sea & Vines Weekend
Gemtree and Greening Australia are hosting Arbor Day in the Gemtree Wetlands on Sunday 22nd June for the 3rd year running. Family members young and old are invited to join us and help plant 2500 trees into the beautiful wetland environment. To thank you for your help, we'll provide you with lunch and a glass or two of our finest, so click on the following link to read all the details and RSVP info. Hope to see you there! Click to view/print Invitation.
Visit the stunning McLaren Vale region to see some of Adelaide's best vintage and classic cars on show at leading McLaren Vale cellar doors. The day commences with a parade down the Main St from 11:30am. Cars on show at participating wineries from 12:30pm.
Gemtree & Dowie Doole will be hosting the Morris Minors Car Club. Visit our cellar door to see these amazing vehicles on show. We are located at the Salopian Inn on the corner of McMurtrie Rd and Willunga Rds, McLaren Vale. Phone 08 8323 7428 for details.
On a recent sales visit to Melbourne, Andrew Buttery met with Sommelier John Evans from Pearl restaurant who are participating in Earth Hour 2008. Pearl has been a great supporter of Gemtree over the last few years and John encouraged Gemtree to sponsor the VIP event in Melbourne. Melissa and Mike Brown participated in earth hour last year and with our family's strong commitment to environmental sustainability, we feel strongly about the earth hour concept.
In 2008 apart from sponsoring the VIP event in Melbourne we will be turning our lights off on March 29th from 8pm for 1 hour and encouraging as many of our friends and associates to do so. If you want to do your part for the environment and help make an impact commit to Earth Hour on 29 March at www.earthhour.org and join the fight against global warming.
Come into cellar door on the weekend of the 15th and 16th March 2008 between 12 and 2pm. Our winemaker Mike Brown will show you the evolution of Tempranillo - taste bunches of newly picked grapes, through to the fermenting juice, 4 days after crushing and then the end product - our Bloodstone Tempranillo from 2006. Dowie Doole will be showing their Chenin Blanc.
Gemtree, together with our cellar door partners Dowie Doole wines and the Salopian Inn restaurant, are participating in this years Fiesta! Event which runs for the month of October in the Fleurieu region.
On Saturday 20th October we will present a 4 course lunch of exquisite regional food matched with our premium wines. Special guest speakers will be our winemaker Mike Brown, along with Leigh Gilligan of Dowie Doole.
Cost is $85 per head and bookings are essential on (08) 8323 8769.
In addition to this, for the month of October we are holding free Olive Oil tastings in cellar door of both Gemtree and Dowie Doole's estate grown oils - no bookings required.
Upcoming Event - Greening Australia is holding an Arbor Day at the Gemtree Wetlands on Sunday 24th June. Everyone is welcome and lunch will be provided. Click to view Invitation.
On Sunday, June 10th, during McLaren Vale's annual Sea & Vines weekend, the Buttery clan were in cellar door showing 3 new wines yet to be released. The 04 Obsidian, which goes into bottle later this month was highly rated, but stealing the show was the unbelieveable 'White Lees" Shiraz and the yet to be named, unfiltered Albarino. Stay tuned for more info down the track.
