Kay Brothers Winery & Cellar Door — Attraction in Adelaide

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Kay Brother's Winery Cellar Door. The setting is stunning with views over McClaren Vale hills and a nicely appointed tasting room.

We were greeted by the extremely friendly staff member who sat us down to an empty cellar door tasting room. The cellar door has provisions for children and the staff were keen to accommodate this, in a clear effort to enhance our tasting experience.

Kay Brother's offer a tasting flight model, offering a curated selection of their wines (essentially entry level, higher end or a mix angled towards grape varieties). Each flight typically included 5 wines.

Tasting pours were generous.

Their wines speak for themselves, they are delicious, arguably some of the best fuller-bodied McClaren vale reds I have tasted in quite some time.

We ended up purchasing wines - where we were very quickly offered members cellar door prices for our purchase, and also offered additional tastings of other wines not listed in our selected flight.

The tasting flight fee was, however, non-refundable on purchase and was required prior to attendance via an online booking service.

This is an extremely friendly winery with a delicious range of wines on offer. It does however, lose a star due to their decision to host a wine flight tasting model and do not offer a refund of tasting fee on purchase (as outlined below).

I am highly adverse to the emerging trend of wine flights as tasting models for SA Wineries - these railroad you into tasting a narrow selection of wines on offer, are frequently inflexible, convey a degree of pretentiousness about the brand and add additional expense to the 'experience'. I have no objection to tasting fees, however strongly feel these should be refunded in full with purchase of wine from the cellar door (with or without...

Our Adelaide friends had discovered that Kay Brothers was offering a winery tour and five wines tasting experience as part of the McLaren Vale promotion in conjunction with the Tour Down Under. We arrived for our 3pm Sunday tour in very hot weather but the tour was still fun and we were amazed at the ability of Colin Kay, who I think is in his eighties, to lead from the front and present really interesting information about the history of the winery that was established by his forebears - the Brothers Kay, in the 1890's. Once the tour was over we headed back to the air conditioned tasting room where we tasted and later ordered some excellent wines. We arranged for the wines to be shipped to us after the Tour was finished and the Winery subsequently advised us that Wirth temperatures in the low 40's it was too hot to ship wine that may go off and they were waiting for cooler wether - we were...

First time at winery for a music event. The winery is putting on a monthly Saturday night show. The venue was lovely and the music great. Staff of 3 catered well to the crowd making sure everyone got their drinks, seating and where facilities were. The food truck was great serving South African food. Wonderful buns scooped out with lashes of different curries poured into the hallowed buns topped with chilli pickles, Greek yoghurt and coriander. I really enjoyed the lamb and my partner had the chicken. The owners of the food truck( BunnyChowNow) explained the way they served the buns before we ordered. The whole night was extremely pleasant and so enjoyed the great music from Summerfield Band. People got up and danced and we all sang along with familiar tunes. A credit to the lady who organised the whole night. Definitely going back to...