Follow the brown signs and head out to Rosnay Winery.
It has been a long time coming, 27 years since planting their grapes, 11 years making their wines on-site, and two years with their new cellar door open. This month, three new Brown Signs – or Visitor Attraction Signs – appeared on the Cowra road, just outside Canowindra, directing people to Rosnay Winery.
The statewide Visitor Attraction Signposting Program has been operating since 1990 and is a partnership between Destination NSW and Transport for NSW. These signs are installed on the state-managed road network in NSW to inform visitors of attractions and services available at a destination as well as indicate establishments, natural or physical attractions or places that are considered major attractions.
In order to get the Brown Signs approved by the NSW Government, the Stathams had to take the next step and commit to being open daily, as well as on weekends.
This means you can now just call in and do a wine tasting daily from 11am to 5pm.
You can add on olives and figs and even a cheese board, or just have quiet glass of wine and enjoy the view. There are 20 different wines and there’s is always something for everyone.
The new Rosnay cellar door is also a gallery for a different local artists every month, and this weekend is a “Sunday Jam Session” with a food truck, live Karaoke and an Open Mic featuring Oli Statham. Details for this and other events are on the Rosnay website, calendar page.
Rosnay winery was created by the Statham family. Richard and Florence Statham moved to Canowindra from northern NSW in 1996. With their son Sam on the farm, they went organic in 1998 and Rosnay won the NSW Organic Pioneers Award from the NSW Department of Agriculture in 2012, and the NSW Landcare Award in 2015.
So when you have friends and family visiting next, make sure to take them out to Rosnay for a look and a sip.