Melbourne Wine and Food Festival

The expectation of good food and wine will make us do just about anything. On the weekend of March 24th that included taking an hour train into Melbourne to take part in the activities associated with the Melbourne Wine and Food Festival.

There were a ton of events taking place around the city, but we first chose to explore the Flour Festival. Around 100 vendors were selling and offering samples of food containing flour. We started at the end eating ice cream, moving onto a pizza made with spelt (supposed to help digestion, and we needed it after all that we ate), some sort of greasy Sicilian pie, and finished up with Mexican sopes.

That gluttonous tour laid a nice base for the Victorian Microbreweries Showcase where we tasted about 20 glasses (small glasses, mom) of different pale ales and ambers from around the state of Victoria. One of our favorites was Mountain Goat Pale Ale.

Here we are about 10 into the game: