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Experience Soumah
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Soumah of Yarra Valley
We grow varieties you would expect to find in the Yarra Valley, such as Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, as well as northern Italian varieties and styles including Brachetto, Nebbiolo, Marzemino, Savarro and Pinot Grigio. We endeavour to search for native northern Italian vines to plant at Soumah to continue the quest to build a little bit of Italy in the Yarra Valley.
Only an hour drive from Melbourne, taste our award-winning wines at our cellar door and dine at our restaurant, Ai Fiori Trattoria, while taking in the view. For something more exclusive, book a private tutored tasting in our Premium Wine Room or indulge in an extended stay at Villa Sophia, a spacious country-style property located in our vineyard.
We are open seven days a week for wine tastings and lunch!
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Award-winning Yarra Valley Winery
Set against the Warramate Hills about an hour from Melbourne, Soumah is a family-owned Yarra Valley winery at 18 Hexham Road, Gruyere.
Our first vintages collected no fewer than 14 medals and trophies, including back-to-back trophies for our exclusive Savarro at the 2011 and 2012 Federation Square Wine Showcase.
We will let you decide whether that makes us the best winery Yarra Valley has to offer, but the cellar door is the right place to form an opinion. And if you have been searching for wineries near me from Melbourne's east, we are closer than you think: ten minutes from Healesville and pouring seven days a week, 10am to 5pm.
Yarra Valley Wineries with a Taste of Italy
Taste our own Yarra Valley wines beside imported bottles from Piedmont and Trentino, settle in for lunch at Ai Fiori Trattoria, or make a weekend of it at Villa Sophia. It is the kind of winery Yarra Valley regulars like to keep to themselves, and the winery Melbourne visitors talk about the moment they get home.
Most Yarra Valley wineries champion Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. We do too, then we plant Marzemino beside them. Of all the wineries Melbourne day trippers can reach within the hour, Soumah is the one where cool climate Syrah shares the tasting bench with Nebbiolo, Brachetto and Nascetta, an ancient white from Piedmont.
Our two single vineyard sites, Hexham and Upper Ngumby, sit between 90 and 150 metres above the Valley Floor, and every Yarra Valley wine we produce carries that sense of place. Visit us today.
Because few cellar doors pack this much into one visit. You can taste award-winning cool climate wines and rare Italian varietals, stay for a woodfired lunch at Ai Fiori Trattoria, wander the Piazza Bar with a glass in hand, and even book a night in the vineyard. We are at 18 Hexham Road, Gruyere, an easy hour from Melbourne and ten minutes from Healesville.
We are certainly among the easiest to reach. The drive from Melbourne's CBD takes about an hour via the Maroondah Highway, which makes Soumah a genuine day trip rather than a weekend commitment.
There are four ways to taste at Soumah, from casual to in-depth:
- Classic Wine Tasting: A guided tasting of current releases. No booking needed for groups under eight
- Italian Wine Tasting: A seated tasting of our Italian varietals alongside imports from northern Italy
- Premium Wine Tasting: Our Equilibrio and limited release wines in the Premium Wine Room, with ciabatta and olives
- Self-guided wine flights: Taste at your own pace, choosing a classic or Italian flight
The Italian thread that runs through everything. We grow varieties like Savarro, Marzemino, Brachetto and Nebbiolo that you will rarely find elsewhere in the region, we import wines from Piedmont and Trentino, and our trattoria cooks northern Italian food to match. It is a little bit of Italy planted in Gruyere soil.
Start with the bottles that tell our story best:
- Savarro: Our exclusive white and a consecutive trophy winner
- Single Vineyard Hexham Chardonnay: Classic cool climate Yarra Valley
- Equilibrio: The very best barrels of each vintage
- Brachetto Frizzante: Gently sparkling, lightly sweet and very hard to put down
Walk in for a Classic Wine Tasting if there are fewer than eight of you. Italian and Premium tastings are seated experiences, so bookings are essential and prepayment is required.
Yes. Shop online with delivery Australia-wide, or join Club Azzurro to build your own selection with savings of up to 30 percent, free shipping and priority access to first releases and museum stock.