Cairn O'Mohr – Fruit Wines, a Winery Tour and Lunch
A few hours.
The route
Cairn O'Mohr is a wonderfully odd little winery in the fruit fields of the Carse of Gowrie, making wine from Scottish berries, flowers and even oak leaves rather than grapes.
Its yard is full of carved faces and timber towers, and its café, the Pickled Peacock, has bright colours and velvet sofas. Lunch there and a tour with a tasting make a fun, easy afternoon.
Before you go
Book accommodation nearby
If you are staying over: here are ours nearest where the day starts and ends.
Book Cairn O'Mohr Fruit Wine: the winery tour and tasting
Book the winery tour on Cairn O'Mohr's website for 2.15pm on a Wednesday, Saturday or Sunday (Saturdays also 12.30pm), from April to October only, £10 a person at the time of writing.
Book lunch at the Pickled Peacock
Book a table at the Pickled Peacock for about 12.30pm by ringing 01821 642163, as the winery suggests; it opens every day from 10am.
The day
Errol
The whole afternoon in one curious farmyard, in the fruit-growing country by the Tay. Lunch comes first in the café, then the winery's own people show you how the wines are made and pour you a taste.
About three hours
The Pickled Peacock
Lunch
Cairn O'Mohr is just off the A90 near Errol, with parking at the winery. Start with lunch at the Pickled Peacock, the winery's café in the old farm buildings. The menu is Perthshire produce with a street-food twist, plus cakes and the winery's own wines by the glass. It opens every day from 10am, and the winery suggests ringing 01821 642163 to book a table. Children and dogs are fine, and the café is wheelchair accessible.
Cairn O'Mohr Fruit Wine
An attraction
After lunch, the tour is at 2.15pm on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and at 12.30pm too on Saturdays, from April to October. It takes about an hour and a half, from berry to bottle, and ends with a tutored tasting of the wines, sparkling wines and ciders. It's £10 a person at the time of writing, booked online, and the whole tour is accessible by wheelchair. Check in at the winery shop five to ten minutes before it starts. Whoever is driving should skip the tasting glasses and take a bottle home for later; the shop sells non-alcoholic drinks too.
If it rains
Lunch and most of the tour are under a roof; only the walk round the yard between the buildings is out in the rain.
The Pickled Peacock, a café in Errol.