Trentham Estate - Winery, Cellar Door & Restaurant

The Murray River forms a natural boundary between New South Wales and Victoria for more than 1800 kilometres. It plays a strong role on both sides of its south bank border, supplying water for irrigation, agriculture and tourism. As with most imaginary lines we mark onto maps, people in border towns like Mildura operate across them, hampered only by bureaucracy. This preamble is a way to explain you’ll find the Mildura winery, Trentham Estate, on the NSW side of the Murray River. While most visitors take the 15 kilometre drive over the bridge from town, some arrive by houseboat, speedboat, and more annoying jet skis. This makes the river bank frontage an interesting place to knock back a few with a cheese board after you’ve visited the cellar door. The cellar door has a list of 21 wines. Not all of them are made from grapes grown in the region. They’re all table wines, with a bottle price between $16–28. To my palate, the best of them was the 2024 Adelaide Hills Chardonnay ($28) but I wasn’t as enamoured as it warmed up. At 36 degrees Celsius it felt too hot to eat their restaurant food, so we opted for the Trentham plate ($45) and Trentham dukkah ($14) with ciabatta, caramelised balsamic and olive oil. The dukkah was too light on flavour for me. The antipasto plate had nice charcuterie and dried fruits appropriate to the region. The small wedge of very mild Camembert didn’t quite scratch my itch for wine and cheese. They use a buzzer system so you can claim your sloping shady perch on the lawn outside, but it took so long, we went inside before it chimed to check whether we’d been forgotten. While I didn’t take home any wine, I did like the opportunity to sit beside the lifeblood of Mildura for a picnic lunch.

My wife and I dined here for a Saturday lunch with her mother to celebrate her 86th birthday. I had long wanted to dine here and it didn’t disappoint. Sensational location right on the Murray River. Houseboats can moor here to dine, do wine tasting or relax with a coffee. Indoor and outdoor seating. The food was first class. The service was excellent. And their wines were sensational!! I highly recommend dining here and sampling their wonderful wines!

TLDR: served raw chicken My group of four dined at Trentham restaurant on Saturday, 16 Aug 2025, for a 1:50 pm booking on the veranda. We ordered chicken involtini, salt and pepper squid, meatballs, and moroccan lamb. Unfortunately, after we had already eaten most of the chicken involtini, we opened a piece of one and realised it was visibly raw and undercooked. We then opened up another almost finished piece and realised it too was also raw and undercooked. Regrettably, we didn’t get a clear close up photo of the raw chicken in the blur of the moment, but it is retrospectively visible in our earlier photos. We notified waitstaff, who saw the undercooked chicken and took the dish back to the kitchen, telling us they would remake it. However, they returned with only one properly cooked involtini (just a third of the original dish) which confused and disappointed us. When we came up to pay, our main concern was making sure the incident was formally reported. The manager explained that the involtini are pre-cooked and reheated, and insisted it must have been just one chicken that was raw, and hence they only remade one of them (which is besides the point). They showed trivial concern that we all had unknowingly eaten raw chicken. While we quietly felt the replacement was inadequate compensation, our main focus was on encouraging them to lodge an incident report for the safety of future patrons. We were disappointed by the manager’s attitude- she seemed reluctant, insincerely apologetic, and at times passive aggressive. She eventually offered a refund for the involtini dish, which she gave with a frustrated tone. We considered this refund to be the bare minimum. No further gesture or compensation was made, besides telling us to call them if he had any further concerns. What was most concerning wasn’t the raw chicken, but the dismissive response from the manager. Serving undercooked chicken should be treated with far more seriousness and accountability.

Outstanding location which makes you wonder why there not more like that on the Murray. Beautiful terrasse overlooking the river and we were blessed with talented live music. Food is in the bistro style range and well executed with great flavour. The local vermentino complimented it very well. But it is really the whole package that works here adding the relaxed surroundings with the river and views. Food 4 stars, full package 5 stars.

My husband and I experienced an extremely pleasant afternoon at Trentham Estate Winery. The food, wine and relaxing location were all excellent. Sincerely wish to thank Megan, her beautiful family and staff for their flawless hospitality. Looking forward to returning again in the near future.

Firstly beautiful location/setting. We did some wine tasting before lunch and Karl was extremely informative and helpful. Now to the food and service. Food average. I had the Seafood Linguine. Pasta was over cooked and the tomatoe sauce lacked seasoning. Reasonable amount of seafood but nothing to get excited about. My partner had the Lamb shoulder which was nice, meat was tender, but not a dish if you are hungry as the portion was small. The best thing of lunch was the dessert Panna Cotta. Service by the kitchen was very slow as we waited 40 minutes for our food and we were the first customers there on this particular Thursday. Wait staff were attentive and friendly.

You must try Trentham Estate wines, fortified, olive oil and their amazing balsamic vinegar. We were very fortunate to visit the Estate this past April when traveling from interstate to Mildura. We arrived at Trentham via All Seasons Houseboat. Amazing way to travel to a Cellar Door. We enjoyed the cellar door experience. Tasted the sensational wines produced by Trentham, their olive oil and their balsamic. Your staff member was very friendly, knowledgeable, kind and a very lovely person who made our visit extra special. Their Estate grown shiraz 2023 is a must try and must buy. Their Cellar Reserve Verdejo 2024 is a sensational white. If you’re into balsamic, you have to try Trentham’s Balsamic. It is extremely flavoursome with beautiful notes of honey like sweetness. Stunning! We have just finished our wines we purchased when we visited the Cellar door, so we have joined the wine club to keep on enjoying Trentham Estate wines back home interstate. Their cafe style food was delicious (didn’t get to do the fine dining this time) and their grounds are spectacular being positioned right on the Murray River. Another must try is the Murray River Pink Salt which we purchased in the Trentham Estate Cellar door. It’s a must buy, I’ve never tasted a better salt!! Thank you Trentham Estate for what you do. We will look forward to enjoying your wines from your wine club on a regular basis at home interstate. Many thanks.

One word to describe this place. 'Tranquillity'. Great service, excellent food. Special mention to Karl & Deb for their humour and hospitality.

I came here with my sister and her 1 year old baby for some wine tasting. The first thing I noticed was the lack of ramp at the front door so the pram had to go up the few stairs. I'm a big red wine drinker, Shiraz and cab sav's mostly. There was only 1 wine I liked which was the most expensive of course. Can't remember the name of it but it was a reserve blend about halfway down the red list. We also got some $12.50 Shiraz truffles as a treat. They are made by Scottiz shingidz or something like that. They were the most horrible thing I have ever eaten! They tasted nothing like Shiraz and were filled with cracked black pepper!! At first I passed it off as it being the peppery Shiraz flavour from the wine, till I bit into a piece of peppercorn! I had checked the label prior to buying them and black pepper was NOT on the ingredient list. No one could eat them so I melted them down to make into something else. I did call the company direct to tell them how disgusting they were & that the label was incorrect but they didn't really seem to care.