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.

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

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.

Even though we didn’t have a booking and had to wait over 30 minutes for our lunch, Ethan kept us informed throughout, updating us on wait times, which we really appreciated. We understand that hospitality can be challenging, especially with functions and events happening at the restaurant. Despite the wait, we received great service and enjoyed a delicious meal made with fresh, high-quality ingredients. Over at the cellar door, Leanne provided an excellent wine tasting experience, explaining the wines in detail and making our visit even more enjoyable. Overall, a fantastic experience, and we’ll definitely be back!

One of the best locations for a winery! We have visited Trentham Estate on five occasions - 2013, 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2024. The wines are very good quality and their Cellar Reserve Fine Old Tawny is incredible! As I can't buy it in bottle shops, it's either buy it online or visit the winery. I choose to visit ;-) In 2020, the winery offered a comprehensive wine tasting (similar to a tutored tasting) where we paid and sat at a table. That experience was excellent. Since then, it was sit at the bar and taste. Also OK but I prefer the former as opposed to the latter. The food is very good. The restaurant is not open every day so you may want to check first before visiting. If you happen to be on a house boat, just pull up and enjoy this great winery. On our most recent visit we were looked after extremely well by Karl and Belinda. Always worth a visit! :-) Here are some photos...

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.