McLeish Estate — Attraction in Pokolbin

The only good thing about this place was that the wine was good. However, I have never in my life felt so unwelcome and uncomfortable by the hospitality of this place. A blonde woman with a neck scarf served us and was extremely rude from the start. She told us that we had the “peasant menu”, she made us feel rushed and didn’t welcome questions, possibly because we were a group in our mid-twenties. Little did she know, amongst us was an employee of a large wine company in Sydney. We spent our money collectively as a group in other wineries yesterday to buy bottles of wine purely because of how unwelcome we felt at McLeish Estate. It was a real shame as we enjoyed learning about the wine but she was unkind and because of this we will...

I visited McLeish Estate for a second time a few weeks ago and enjoy a tasting with a large group. The staff were fantastic - very friendly, knowledgeable and accomodating. I’ve been to quite a few tastings and I loved how the staff engaged with us and included interesting facts during our tasting experience. The cheese platters we purchased were delicious….but not as delicious as their wine, which I found reasonably priced and superb.

Across from the carpark they have a nice wooden frame for a photo opportunity over their vines which I really loved.

I’ve also just found out they have BBQ facilities to cook your own BYO lunch AND they’re dog friendly so I will definitely be...

We were at the cellar door planning to buy wine as we had dinner at The Muse the night before & love the wine. I told her that I found the wine online that was selling for approx $40. She told us that she is such & such McLeish & her wine would NEVER be priced that low. She was not only ruded, she was rushing us by asking whether we still want to do wine tasting as she is having function happening soon. She made us felt like we were wasting her time. We were disgusted with her attitude & left. Regardless how good her wine are, there is definitely no service...