Sandalford Wines hosts conferences, banquets, meetings and seminars, product launches, breakfasts, cocktail receptions, weddings and private celebrations on its Swan Valley estate. The winery is at 3210 West Swan Road in Caversham, on the edge of the Swan Valley northeast of central Perth, on land first granted in 1840.
Seminars and company events
The corporate offer covers conferences, banquets, meetings and seminars, product launches, breakfasts and cocktail receptions held on the estate grounds. A corporate sales and events manager handles enquiries, and the winery publishes a corporate and social functions kit that sets out the spaces and packages. A conference day can end with a tasting at the cellar door, a cellar experience or a meal at the restaurant, which gives a team day out of the city a full program without moving venue.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings use the landscaped gardens and private courtyards around the vineyard for ceremonies and photographs. The site lists the Oak Room, the Sandalera Room, the Estate Room, the Chenin Lawn, the Merlot Lawn and the Hill House as its function spaces and ceremony locations, the Hill House being the newest ceremony site. Food and drink packages are set out in the wedding kit, and the winery runs seasonal offers for autumn and winter weddings, when Perth daytime temperatures average 18 to 19 °C. Birthdays, anniversaries, christenings and Christmas functions are also hosted.
Rooms and capacities
The estate has three named function rooms, the Oak Room, the Sandalera Room and the Estate Room, which opened in 2018. Outdoors, the Chenin Lawn and the Merlot Lawn take ceremonies and receptions, and the Hill House adds another ceremony location. The restaurant has a private dining room, the Vintage Room. The website does not publish capacities, which appear in the function kits. A virtual tour of the estate is available online for a first look before a site visit.
Catering
The estate restaurant, led by executive chef Alan Spagnolo, serves modern Australian and contemporary European cooking, with hand-rolled pasta, wood-fired pizza and Western Australian produce, paired with the estate's wines. It opened at Caversham in 1998 and serves lunch every day and dinner on Fridays and Saturdays. Function menus and beverage packages are listed in the wedding and functions kits.
History and setting
In 1840, Queen Victoria granted about 4,000 acres on the banks of the Swan River at West Swan to John Septimus Roe, the colony's first Surveyor General, who named the property after a priory in Berkshire, his home in England. The first table grapes were harvested in 1842, and the Roe family kept the estate for generations, planting a vineyard at Wilyabrup in Margaret River in 1970. The Prendiville family bought Sandalford in 1990. The estate was named Australia's best tourism winery at the Australian Tourism Awards in 2017, and its summer concerts have drawn crowds of more than 16,000.
Getting there
The estate is in Caversham, in the Swan Valley wine region, about 20 minutes by road from Perth Airport and around half an hour from central Perth. The cellar door is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pets are not allowed on the estate, except accredited service dogs.
