SheppARTon Dream Voices Performance

THE DEFINING FESTIVAL THEME PERFORMANCE@ TALLIS SUNDAY 9TH MARCH 2014 The culmination of choir and sculpture workshops starring indigenous soprano Deborah Cheetham and the voices of the multicultural Dream Voices choir.

A FREE EVENTpresented by SheppARTon Festival - Sunday 9th March 2014 at 5:00 pm @ Tallis Wine 

The Dream Voices Performance is the Festival Theme defining performacne of the 2014 festival. Set in the magnificent surrounds of Tallis Winery in the rolling Dookie Hills, this is a family event with great entertainment and a chance to become involved in a magnificent performance for the family.

Food is available on site or pack a picnic. Sorry NO BYO (drinks available for purchase on site). Catch the bus or make your own to Dookie and join hundreds of families for this fantastic evening of enlightening live entertainment.

This year children will be sowing a crop of dreams by planting ‘Dream Voice Catchers’ in a plowed image of a . A 100 voice multicultural choir will perform two songs telling a story of the ‘Dream Time’ creation of the Goulburn Valley and celebrating the cohesion of our community.

So come along to the most exciting night of the Festival, grab a wine, learn the Festival theme song, have the kids make a ‘Dream Voices Catcher’ and get involved in the ‘Dream Voices’ spirit.

EVENT INFORMATION FOOD AVAILABLE ON SITE OR BRING A PICNIC / PLEASE NO BYO DRINKS (available for purchase on site)

GETTING TO TALLIS - 195 Major Plains Rd, DookieDrive. Parking available on site. Shep Transit Buses available from Library, Marungi St. Shepparton at 4pm. Tickets $5 per seat, return. Purchased at the bus stop. To book a seat on a bus, please email: buses@sheppartonfestival.org.au with your name, contact number and number of seats you want booked.

SURF'S UP @ TALLIS FOR A SEAFOOD FEAST

SURF'S UP @ TALLIS - Sunday 16th March 2014  Tallis Wine, with a little help from their seafaring friends, brings the freshest seafood from the coast to the country for a SheppARTon Festival taste sensation.

Feast on bountiful seafood platters and match your platter with a crisp Riesling, luscious Viognier or smooth red. Enjoy live music, experience our sensory wall, be guided through a wine tasting or stroll our walking track to beautiful 360° views. Pack your sunscreen, hats, picnic blanket and frisbee for a fun day out at Tallis.

Seafood platter - $35 each. Regional produce platters - $28

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL & PLEASE NO BYO DRINKS

195 Major Plains Road Dookie Victoria 3646.

T. 0358235383 / M. 0437825547

Happy New Year from the Tallis Team

Wishing you a very festive New Year with your family and friends. We look forward to meeting you all at our cellar door during 2014. The New Year brings lots of excitement to Tallis. Susan our dynamic cellar door manager is on fire and has fantastic ideas for 2014. Our BBQ area is nearing completion, the walking track will be upgraded and we are looking forward to the SheppARTon Festival community event in March. More information coming in early February.

Have fun!

Cellar Door Holiday Opening Hours

Our Cellar Door will be open normal hours on the following weekends.  For more information call 0437 825 547. FRIDAY to  SUNDAY -   20th, 21st & 22nd December 2013 / 27th, 28th & 29th December 2013/ 3rd, 4th & 5th January 2014.

OPEN: 11.00 am to 6.00 pm

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Visit Tallis over the Christmas holidays

Looking for somewhere to bring your christmas guests over the festive season? Why not let them experience the best views in the region, share a delicious regional produce platter or be guided through a free tasting?

FRID to SUN   20th, 21st & 22nd December 2013 / 27th, 28th & online pokies 29th December 2013 / 3rd, 4th & 5th January 2014.

 OPEN: 11.00 am to 6.00 pm

We look forward to seeing you there.

Ways to save this christmas

Save yourself a bundle this christmas. Join the Tallisman for free and save 25% on wine purchases this christmas and for the next 12 months.

As a Tallisman Members you will receive 12 bottles of your favourite boutique wines automatically delivered to your door twice a year.

Join our group of dedicated wine lovers and receive the following Tallisman member benefits including:

• No joining or annual fees
• 25% discount on all Tallis wine purchased on-line, mail order and take home purchases at the Cellar Door. Excludes promotional offers and wine consumed at the Cellar Door.
• Invitation to exclusive pre-release tastings and priority ordering of limited release wines
•  Invitation to member only events and member prices for all other winery events including  masterclasses, dinners and festivals
• Your Tallisman charm keyring
• Member only special offers and competitions
• Special prices on orders for private functions and events
• E-newsletters including news, tasting notes, recipes and special offers
• Your wines are covered by our Quality Guarantee

For further information visit www.talliswine.com.au/tallisman-club/

We're building our Cellar Door team at Tallis Wine

Early in April we will farewell one of our valuable Cellar Door team members, Sara Furness, as she and her husband Mike leave us to embark on a new venture in Bendigo. We wish Sara and Mike the very best in their new business.

We are now on the look-out for a new 'Sara' for the Cellar Door to ensure we continue to provide a fantastic wine tasting experience for our visitors. If that person is you or someone you know we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for confident, energetic, well-presented people with initiative who are passionate about giving outstanding service with a smile. The position/s available cross over all aspects of the Cellar Door operation including wine tastings, food and cheeses and coffee. Ensuring the customer experience exceeds their expectation is the highest priority.

Weekend availability is essential within the Cellar Door opening hours of 10am to 6pm including some public holidays. A knowledge and appreciation of wine would be well regarded and the preferred candidate will hold a Responsible Serving of Alcohol qualification or be willing to complete the course. On the job training and support will be provided.

Responsibilities include conducting wine tastings, promoting wine sales and wine club membership. Other duties include maintaining an excellent presentation of cellar door and outdoor area, food handling, managing stock levels, reconcile daily takings and the ability to be work well within a small team.

You will be rewarded with above award pay rates depending on skills and experience and working within a warm and welcoming team in a great location. To express your interest in one of the positions available please forward your resume to info@talliswine.com.au

The Emerging Voices Community Performance ....... a moving and memorable event

On Saturday we proudly hosted the SheppARTon Festival's Emerging Voices Community Event at the Cellar Door and it was an evening most will never forget.

Multicultural choirs filled the air with beautiful music and the procession of indigenous dancers, hundreds of children carrying lanterns and a sculpture carried to the heart of the long neck turtle was emotional to witness. Well over one thousand people attended the event and the perfect balmy evening, fabulous food and the wine flowing  kept them lingering late into the night. Thank you to the SheppARTon Festival for bringing such an incredible event to Tallis Wine.

Watch a snippet of the merging Voices Community Performance

'Silo Series 1' Photo Exhibition by Serana Hunt @ the Tallis Cellar Door

For the month of March Tallis Wine Cellar Door is delighted to host a photographic exhibition by Serana Hunt as a part of the sheppARTon festival program. Serana lives in Dookie and works as a commercial and practicing contemporary photographer.

The exhibition, titled ‘Silo series 1’ is a collection of photographs taken at the silos in the heart of Dookie, extending on her love of photographing the everyday world around her and transforming it into another realm through the medium of photography. Her first solo exhibition, held at SAM in 2009, ‘Portraits of country racing’ was a series of photographs taken while working as course photographer at country racetracks. Since then she has held two solo exhibitions in Sydney’s Head On photo festival (2011,2012), Federation Square, Melbourne (2012) and the 2010 sheppARTon festival. In this time her work has been shortlisted for both national and international photographic competitions.

For further details contact Serana Hunt on 0408 180 695 or  serana.hunt@bigpond.com

Art Ploughed Into The Earth

Long neck turtles are the totem/symbol of artist, Ross A. Morgan’s clan group/tribe, Yorta Yorta. This animal is protected and can’t be eaten by tribe members. The turtles in the painting represent Ross’ ancestors now in the dreamtime.

The 2013 SheppARTon Festival theme ‘Emerging Voices’ pays tribute to the traditional custodians of the Goulburn Valley and tells the story of ‘Bayaderra’, the Long Neck Turtle, a creature of perseverance and the totem of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Nation. The turtle also represents a welcoming spirit to those who have travelled hard journeys to emerge from their burden with a free voice.

Richard ploughed this magnificent Long Neck Turtle into the earth below the Tallis Wine Cellar Door in preparation for the multicultural Emerging Voices Community Performance event by the SheppARTon Festival from 5.30pm Saturday 9th March 2013.

Visit the Shepparton Festival website or Facebook page for more details on this free family event.You won't want to miss it.

Shepparton Festival Emerging Voices Performance VIP area for our Tallisman Members

The SheppARTon Festival are expecting attendance to the Emerging Voices Community Performance on Saturday 9th March to be in the thousands. We are reserving access inside the Cellar Door to our Tallisman Members and other VIP SheppARTon Festival guests. We invite our Tallisman Members to RSVP to this event for full access to the Cellar Door and grounds to enjoy this fabulous event from the comfort of the Cellar Door and verandahs. Reservations essential.

RSVP to info@talliswine.com.au or call (03) 5823 5383.

Join the birthday fun as the Tallis Wine Cellar Door turns 1 on Sunday 17th March

This time last year we opened the doors of the Tallis Wine Cellar Door for the first time with the naivete of an enthusiastic toddler. The 12 months since have been a blur of frenzied activity with each weekend feeling like our first and smattered with the highs and lows associated with starting a new venture. We"ve learnt a lot, and thanks to your support and feedback we"ve thoroughly enjoyed meeting and getting to Php Aide know all the fabulous Tallisman Members and visitors to the Cellar Door.

Our opening last March was a food & wine event on the SheppARTon Festival Program and to celebrate our 1st birthday we are participating again with an Argentinian BBQ and Grape Stomp on Sunday 17th March. Take your tastebuds on a journey to Argentina with our South American barbeque feast matched to Tallis Wines. Get into the spirit of vintage and old fashioned winemaking by trying your hand at grape stomping. All in the name of fun.

Cellar Door open from 11am. For enquiries email us at info@talliswine.com.au or call (03) 5823 5383

Tallis Wine hosts the SheppARTon Festival Emerging Voices Performance

Saturday 9th March from 5.30pm Tallis Wine Cellar Door will host the SheppARTon Festival major event the Emerging Voices Community Performance. The rolling hills around the Cellar Door form a natural amphitheatre from which multicultural choirs will perform. Hundreds of children will form a lantern parade and march into the figure of an enormous hillside carving in the shape of a Long Neck Turtle.

VIP area for Tallisman Members and SheppARTon Festival Guests.

Pack a picnic, book a food hamper or choose from the range of food stalls at the venue. Wine, beer and soft drinks available through the Cellar Door. No BYO alcohol permitted. Buses will be running from Shepparton and there is ample parking on-site. Book buses and food hampers through Riverlinks (03) 5832 9511. Gold coin donation for the event.

Shiraz, Riesling & Viognier for morning tea

In the lead up to vintage our daily intake of fruit at Tallis skyrockets. We spend time each day wandering through the vineyard, tasting and sampling the grapes readiness for harvest. This morning we looked at Shiraz, Riesling and Viognier and confirmed that vintage is just days away.

At the risk of jinxing ourselves the growing conditions in our vineyard so far this vintage have been excellent and if the rain can just hold out just a few more weeks we will have our precious grapes in the winery soon happily fermenting away. Fingers crossed!

We're family friendly at Tallis Wine!

Gorgeous little Archie, the newest addition to Paula (our Accountant) and Chris' family is a very welcome new recruit in the Tallis Wine office. His job? To woo all the Tallis Wine girls. Job done!

Don't you think Ms Gillard and her team in Canberra would be delighted to see such a family friendly workplace?

Now the fun begins

We start vintage at Tallis next Friday with our Riesling first in line to be picked. Being a delicate and aromatic grape variety we will hand-pick the grapes to avoid breaking the skins and get them into the winery for pressing asap. A week or so later will be picking our shiraz, viognier and sangiovese. We pick the shiraz in separate parcels of fruit, selected from particular blocks in the vineyard to achieve our desired style for the Silent Showman and Dookie Hills wines.

So it's busy times ahead with a flurry of activity as grapes flood into the winery, ferments bubble away and the winery is filled with heady aromas of fermenting grapes. It also happens to be the most exciting time of year as we begin the cycle which helps us create our future wines. We will bring small batches of our ferments to display up at the Cellar Door so be sure to visit over the next couple of weeks.

Dookie Hills Botrytis Riesling 2012

Botrytis concentrated grape flavours and sugars have resulted in intense aromas of candied cumquat and citrus marmalade. The rich sticky palate carries poached quince, honey and a hint of spice alongside luscious texture balanced by soft acidity. Screw cap. Sweet wines like this are beautiful with desserts like crème brulee, apple tart tatin or pear & almond upside down cake. Also good with cheeses and pate.

ALC/VOL 11.4%. Approx 3.4 standard drinks. Preservative 220 added. Fined using milk products.