Only the Southern Highlands could produce Bendooley: a wine estate at Berrima whose centrepiece is a barn full of hundreds of thousands of secondhand books, with a restaurant among the shelves and cottages out in the vines. Nearly 900 Google reviews average 4.4 stars.
★ 4.4 · 890 Google reviews (correct at the time of writing, July 2026)
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The stay
The cottages give you the estate after the day visitors leave — vineyard rows going quiet, fire pits lit, and the Book Barn’s long tables a stroll away for dinner. Mornings are for coffee and browsing shelves you will never finish.
Around Berrima
Berrima’s sandstone village is five minutes away, Bowral ten, and the Southern Highlands food trail strings together the district’s cellar doors, berry farms and bakeries.
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