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What We Do
We are opened daily from 10 - 4 pm , September through May. Come and join us, taste our beautiful wines, kick back in the sun with a glass our medal winning Riesling and a delicious Tassie Picnic Hamper. Select from our Pickers Fridge Tasmanian Cheeses by Wicked and Bay of Fires Cheese, Local Olives, Farm Grown fresh Walnuts, and a sumptuous selection of Mures Atlantic Salmon products including Hot Smoked Atlantic Salmon and Salmon Pate. In a hurry ? Pop in on your way to Coles Bay for the day or on your way back to your accommodation.
Where Are We
We are in the centre of Cranbrook settlement, on the highway for one of the best tourism areas in Tasmania starring Freycinet Peninsula with its National Park and the breathtaking Wine Glass Bay, Binalong Bay and the Bay of Fires.
from your Hobart Accommodation: 2 hours;
from your Launceston Accommodation 1 hour and half;
from your Coles Bay Accommodation: 40 minutes;
from your Bicheno Accommodation: 25 minutes;
from your Swansea Accommodation: only 10 minutes.
Do Not Blink once you have entered the 70 km zone or you drive straight past our quirky green weatherboard tasty room, and you certainly don't want to do that!
It's Ted's Place
Once the Cranbrook Post Office and general store, this quirky weatherboard building was an important part of the thriving Cranbrook community. Later the home of the Castle Family, the cottage has been residence of some of Tasmania’s (iconic) true characters.
Theodore Castle (Ted to the locals) lived the honest life he had learnt from his pioneering family. While most of us upgrade with the latest home comforts, Ted preferred to keep life simple. Cooking on a cast iron stove and heating water in an old copper to bath with, Ted’s house contained the bare essentials and looked more like the film set of “The Sullivans”. However Ted did like some comforts as seen in the shagpile carpet around the seats of his long drop toilets at the back of the yard. He also had a box of tissues rather than newspaper in “the guest’s” toilet.
Ted kept himself busy shooting roo, fishing and trapping possums for the fur market. He never owned a car so was often seen zig zagging down the highway on his old bike with a spud sack on his back, a gun slung over his shoulder and a fishing rod protruding into the oncoming traffic. More of a character you would not meet.