2 Best Shopping in Yarra Valley and Healesville, Victoria

The bellwether of Australia's craft gin movement, Four Pillars' industrial-style distillery bustles with admirers: its Navy Strength Gin is a six-time winner of best its class at the world Gin Masters. Pop in for a tasting paddle of gins and a light snack and watch the distillers at work behind a glass window, or go deeper with a tour of the distillery. Like what you taste? All its standard gins and limited-edition gins (such as the Christmas gin, available from November), as well as its preferred tonic waters, are available for purchase, along with stylish cookbooks and chic drinking paraphernalia.

Resident European chocolatiers create a vast array of high-quality treats in all shapes and styles—more than 300 of them, in fact—at this artisan chocolate and ice-cream maker. Many items include locally grown ingredients such as rosemary and lavender, and there's a bush tucker range of chocolates incorporating native plant products such as lemon myrtle, jindilli nut, and wattleseed. They even have a range of beauty products, if the adults want an excuse to smear chocolate-inspired goodness all over their faces. The Chocolaterie has year-round events including kids' chocolate-making classes. It also has outposts on the Mornington Peninsula and Great Ocean Road.  The on-site café has a beautiful view over hilly green farmland and is a great place to eat chocolate and made-on-the-premises ice cream, and also serves light meals; we also suggest you buy a selection of chocolates to enjoy later.