There’s gold to be found on the Bellarine Peninsula, from gold-leaf facials to gold-medalled wines plus wild beaches, wild pinot, wild seals and wild convicts: all just 90 minutes from Melbourne. What do the Ocean Grove Catholic church, the Barwon Heads’ bridge and the Toorak home of Australia’s first billionaire, Robert Holmes a Court, have in common? Parts of them all are built into Oneday Estate winery in Curlewis, 20 minutes’ east of Geelong (Holmes a Court’s front door is now the winery’s toilet door). Open only on Sundays, expect live music, wood-fired pizzas and enormous pans of paella in the winery, which owner Sam Murray is expanding to include a new tasting room lined with bluestone salvaged from Melbourne’s old Pentridge Prison.

The must-take-home wine is its Wild pinot noir featuring wild yeast – a gold medal winner from the Victorian Wine Show. See onedayestate.com.

au Tucked away in Port Lonsdale, The Lon spa and health retreat has seven serene suites and taps into healing geothermal waters from an aquifer beneath the property. Soak in the mineral pool before succumbing to a new Advanced Vegan Collagen facial using Sydney company Subtle Energies’ creams infused with 24K gold leaf and sublime mogra jasmine – a first in Australia. Continue the dreamy journey with a walk through the moonah forests and over the sand dunes for sunset, best watched on the wild ocean beach.

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