Victory Hotel

Our cellared wines focus on the McLaren Vale region with additional wines from other South Australian regions, all other states as well as the very best from overseas. Vintages covering the last 20 years are available.

Wines are available from $20 per bottle as well as by the glass.

Just some of our wines...

"Alkoomi, All Saints, Arakoon, Arnoux, Ashton Hills, Ata Rangi, Bart, Battle of Bosworth, Bannockburn, Bertagna, Best's, Bindi, Black Ridge, Bremerton, Brokenwood, By Farr, Cape Barren, Cape Mentelle, Carrick, Cascabel, Castagna, Castagnier, Chalk Hill, Charles Melton, Clonakilla, Clos Clare, Cloudy Bay, Clover Hill, Confuron, Coriole, Crabtree of Watervale, Craggy Range, Craiglee, Crawford River, Cullen, Curley Flat....

...and there's plenty more to fill this gap.

With over 8000 cellared bottles and magnums, it would be impossible to list them all.

So regardless of grape variety, vintage, winery, and state or country, there's something for everyone's taste and price range..."

"And then there's the wine cellar, Oh my....Pubs with great wine lists? The Exeter. The Wheatsheaf in Thebarton. But the Victory is the best. You may know another; its not jumping to my mind"

"wines from temples so great and rare that I never mention them."

"Escape to Victory", Phillip White, Thirst, The Independent Weekly
Aug 8 - 14 2008, p29 (pdf 1.2mb)

"Owner Doug Govan encourages diners to peruse his collection of wines, which features selections from the McLaren Vale region of Australia. "It’s a cellar that any Michelin-star chef would envy," says Reid Bosward of Kaesler in Nuriootpa, Australia, "with prices that would make them cry."

"100 Favourite Restaurants" - Robb Report.com, The Editor
2009 Bentley Mega-Coupe, May 2008

"Wine, good wine and excellent range of it - this not a fancy gastro-pub, just an old-fashioned boozer that happens to also stock a range of excellent drops, mostly Australian..."

"Victory Hotel chosen in top 45 World Wine Lists", Gourmet Traveller WINE, Dec/Jan 2006 (pdf 1.9mb)

"Grab a bite-and a bottle-at the Victory Hotel, which has the best cellar in town. Proprietor Doug Govan has hard-to-find Australian treasures, all of which are marked with prices so that customers can browse the cellar rather than read a wine list..."

Wine Enthusiast Magazine, Mar 2005

"...Riedel glassware is used extensively in the dining room; it has two of the best stocked cellars in the country (one Australian, the other aged or imported-both of which are very keenly priced)..."

Divine Food & Wine, Mar - May 2004