Penobscot Farm Cottage

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1 bedroom Farm stay

The organic and bio-dynamic Penobscot Farm supplies Penobscot Restaurant, the Watervale Hotel, and Watervale General Store. It is on 14 hectares on the outskirts of Watervale. Penobscot Farm Cottage is an 1860’s rustic one bedroom cottage. It is very private looking out over the hillside and ridge. Breakfast provisions are provided in the Cottage.

One Night Regeneration package

The Watervale Hotel offers an all-day casual and fine dining experience from 11am to 9pm every day in a beautifully renovated old hotel that has retained the friendly atmosphere associated with a country pub.
  • Accommodation for 2 people
  • Hotel and History Tour
  • 4pm Penobscot Farm Tour 
  • 6 pm Penobscot Restaurant Degustation Dinner including wine or mocktail match
  • Breakfast provisions are provided in the cottage.

$900 per couple

One Night Summer package

  • Accommodation for 2 people
  • Watervale History & Hotel Tour with Complementary gin or beer.
  • Degustation Dinner including wine or mocktail match sitting at the chefs table
  • Breakfast provisions are provided in the cottage.

$700 per couple

Great way to enjoy the chefs table without the Farm tour.

Ideal for people on the way to or from a Flinders Ranges holiday.

Only available in December, January and February. 

two night indulgence package

  • Accommodation for 2 people
  • Hotel and History Tour
  • Penobscot Farm Tour & Penobscot Restaurant Degustation Dinner including wine or mocktail match
  • ‘Teach me, Feed me’ Wine Masterclass and Watervale Hotel Feed Me lunch.
  • Breakfast provisions are provided in the cottage.
$1,600 per couple

three night indulgence package

  • Accommodation for 2 people
  • Hotel and History Tour
  • Penobscot Farm Tour & Penobscot Restaurant Degustation Dinner including wine or mocktail match
  • ‘Teach me, Feed me’ Wine Masterclass and Watervale Hotel Feed Me lunch.
  • Breakfast provisions are provided in the cottage.
$1,850 per couple 

One Night winter package

Winter One-night accommodation and breakfast package

  • Accommodation for 2 people
  • Watervale History & Hotel Tour
  • Penobscot Restaurant Degustation Dinner including wine or mocktail match sitting at the chefs table.
  • Breakfast provisions are provided in the cottage.

Ideal for people on the way to or from a Flinders Ranges holiday.

$750 per couple

two night winter package

Winter Two Night accommodation and breakfast package
 
  • Accommodation for 2 people 2 nights in our 1860’s one bedroom cottage.
  • Watervale History & Hotel Tour
  • Penobscot Restaurant Degustation Dinner including wine or mocktail match sitting at the chefs table.
  • On the second night stay in the cottage and enjoy a shared platter entrée, casserole, wood oven sour dough bread, a bottle of wine from our Cellars without Doors collection (Riesling or Red), Grounded Pleasure’s hot chocolate, and home-made marshmallows. You can even light a fire out back to toast your marshmallows.
  • Breakfast provisions are provided in the cottage.
 
 
$1,150 per couple

Penobscot Farm is part of a larger tourism group operated by owners Nicola and Warrick. The Farm is their home. They also operate the Award-winning Watervale Hotel, open 11am - 9pm. Our lovely staff are therefore accessible to help with any questions, travel recommendation's or bookings most of each day.

Influenced by the local Style

IT'S THE LITTLE DIFFERENCES

We encourage guests to spend time in the Watervale Hotel & the Watervale General Store & Providore. 

Guests staying at Penobscot Farm Cottage will have a number of privileges.

  • We can do dine and stay packages.
  • Guests receive priority booking privileges for the Hotel’s private dining rooms. 
  • Guests can book tours of our organic and biodynamic Penobscot Farm.
  • We can prepare set menu’s designed around the preferences of guests, including wine pairing.
  • Sit outside in the beer garden, or along the veranda bar looking across at the Watervale Hotel’s Kitchen Garden.
  • We can recommend Bike hire, Massage services as well as Tour Guide operators. 

EXTRAS

We offer a range of extras that can be added on to your stay to really personalise your visit. 

Experience Extras

Farm Tour & Degustation

You will be encouraged to hear, see, smell, feel and taste your way through the farm as you learn about organic, bio-dynamic and permaculture farming. Learn about regenerative agriculture practices. Dinner will be a 6 course degustation at the Hotel.

$300 per person including wine matches, or $350 with icon wine match

Teach me, Feed me

Learn why Clare Valley wines are so special by attending an 11am Wine Masterclass in the Watervale Hotel featuring back-vintage wines from Wendouree, Grosset and Kilikanoon. 

Then enjoy a 12 noon Feed me lunch. 

$200 per person

Food & Beverage Extras

Kilikanoon Vouvray & Chocolates

Enjoy a bottle of Kilikanoon Vouvray & a selection of 8 house made chocolates.

$80

Cellars without Doors 6 Pack of Wine

We have put together a mixed six-pack – three red and three white that can be delivered to you as you check-in. 

$250

Pate or Terrine with Lavosh

House made chicken liver pate (250gm) or Terrine (250gm) with sea salt lavosh and house pickles.

$25

let us spoil you

The Penobscot Farm Cottage is centrally and conveniently located for your Clare Valley holiday. Right down the road from Watervale Hotel, a seasonal restaurant and wine country front bar in a local Pub.