Sydney’s The Winery is hosting bottomless prosecco picnics during the festive season, featuring a pour-your-own fountain. 

In a deal available every Friday through Sunday from now until December 30, patrons have two hours unlimited access to the antique-look fountain featuring a lion, which has a prosecco tap for a mouth, while enjoying a picnic meal.

The grazing menu includes the restaurant’s signature pork and veal sausage rolls with spicy tomato relish, along with chicken parfait, cheese and assorted salumi. Sides include chickpea dip, fresh fruit and a range of roasted nuts, plus a selection of bread and crackers.

The Prosseco Picnic costs $79 per person, with sittings at noon and 2.30pm. The Winery is located in Surry Hills.

Italian fountain dispenses free wine

Back in 2016, a fountain was inaugurated in central Italy that dispenses free wine 24/7.

Locally-produced wine flows from the fountain, which is located in Caldari di Ortona, in Abruzzo, along a popular pilgrimage route, the Cammino di San Tommaso.

“The wine fountain is a welcome, the wine fountain is poetry,” the Dora Sarchese vineyard wrote on its Facebook page.

Thousands of pilgrims and tourists make the journey from Rome to Ortona, in order to visit the city’s cathedral where the remains of Thomas, one of Jesus’ disciples, are kept. The fountain is a joint project of the vineyard and the non-profit organisation which maintains and promoted the pilgrimage route.

Inspiration came from a similar red wine fountain installed along the Spanish pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago, a few years earlier.

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