In a world seriously up-ended, a cellar door dubbed the "Upside Down House" seems wholly appropriate - even more so when you consider that business at Oakdene, a boutique, family-owned wine label, is on the up and up in these formidable times.
The growth of intrastate wine tourism close to the major cities is a cause of much cheer for smaller producers, who in pre-COVID times competed for visitors with the bigger, more familiar labels and their more elaborate facilities and attractions.
Now boutique wineries are enjoying pleasing sales boosts, not only from tourists traditionally stocking up on drops at these more intimate, personalised vineyards, but also at liquor stores in urban centres, where visitors seek out the wines on their return home.