Wine Trails Around Tasmania 2020
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wine trails around tasmania 2020 PRESENTED BY Your guide to exploring Tassie. wine & vineyards with things to see and alongdo the way! Take me home! Wine producers with this icon displayed are participants in the Tasmanian Mixed Dozen freight scheme. This allows you to purchase a bottle or two from different vineyards as you travel around and have wine dispatched to your home address once you’ve reached a dozen bottles. Present your purchased wines (in dozen lots) at the last participating vineyard on your travels from which you purchase wine — they’ll let you know the cost of freight and it will be sent straight to you. Australia Post is our preferred provider for safe delivery of your mixed dozen wines. Your wine can be delivered to your home, Parcel locker or Parcel Collect at your choice of Post Office. Established in late 2006, Wine Tasmania is the peak body assisting the island's vignerons to be recognised as world leaders. WINE TASMANIA Level 5, 29 Elizabeth Street, Hobart TAS 7000 T (03) 6223 3770 E [email protected] Information regarding the Tasmanian wine sector is also available at WWW.WINETASMANIA.COM.AU © 2019 Wine Tasmania DISCLAIMER: Wine Tasmania has made every endeavour to ensure that details are correct at the time of printing but can accept no responsibility for any inaccuracy contained in this publication as a result of information supplied, and can accept no responsibility for subsequent changes or withdrawal of details or services shown. CREDITS Design: Futago Illustrations: The Noun Project Cover image: Tourism Tasmania & Alastair Bett. Other images: courtesy Tourism Tasmania & Rob Burnett, Adam Gibson and Lisa Kuilenburg. Additional image courtesy Barringwood. All remaining images © Wine Tasmania. Printed in Tasmania, October 2019. CRADLE COAST tasmania's wine trails Tamar Valley Tamar 2020 BURNIE DEVONPORT east coast LAUNCESTON BICHENO STRAHAN southern N HOBART w E S WINE TRAILS contents INTRODUCTION 2 EAST COAST WINE TRAIL 28 EVENTS CALENDAR 3 SOUTHERN WINE TRAIL 36 (includes Coal River Valley, CRADLE COAST WINE TRAIL 4 Derwent Valley & Huon/Channel) TAMAR VALLEY WINE TRAIL 10 VINEYARD INDEX 49 (includes Tamar Valley & Pipers River) Congratulations on finding yourself in Australia’s best wine tourism region! OK, WE MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIASED, Chardonnay with Tassie’s own scallop pies or BUT WE ARE SURE YOU WILL local cheeses with a late harvest Riesling. THOROUGHLY ENJOY YOUR TRAVELS Tasmania’s vineyards stretch across the AND THE DELICIOUS WINE FROM OUR island, with seven distinct areas divided into LITTLE ISLAND WITH LATITUDE. four wine experiences as shown in this guide. All are within easy reach of major centres and Tasmania (or Tassie, as the locals know it) along the journey to some of Tasmania’s iconic is one of the most spectacular places in attractions and experiences. the world. Explore lush green corners of paradise, picture perfect beaches, snow- VARIETAL WINE TRAILS — capped mountains, breathtaking forests, FOLLOW YOUR OWN PATH waterfalls and lakes – you’ll find just about every kind of scenery as you travel around If you have a favourite wine or two, you can our cellar doors. Not to mention the cute, create your own itinerary focusing on your cuddly and curious wildlife! preferred tipples. Create your own Sparkling or Pinot Noir Wine Trail or whatever takes Our unique island allows us to grow and your fancy. All you have to do is visit www. craft wines that jump out of the glass with winetasmania.com. au/wine_trails and their flavour intensity and make your mouth select your favourite variety /varieties. water with their refreshing structure. You will find loads of information to help You’ll quickly find that Tasmania’s vineyards you plan your visit to our gourmet island are generally not found on flat land, but at www.discovertasmania.com. You follow the slope of a hill or the curve of a may also like to explore complementary valley. This makes for diverse and distinctive food and beverage trails during your wines, which you will experience as you visit, such as the Tasmanian Cider Trail travel around and taste from different (www.tascidertrail.com), Whisky Trail producers. Even wines from the same (www.taswhiskytrail.com) and Seafood Trail vineyard will be different across vintages, (www.tsic.org.au). reflecting the significant seasonal variation we experience year by year. Our vines need to be carefully looked after in order to produce the outstanding wines You’re bound to find something that will you’ll be enjoying as you travel around. capture your heart and tickle your tastebuds Please ask before you enter any vineyards, as you travel around. as you may be carrying unwanted pests or diseases that can cause great damage. From converted heritage stables to ultra modern cellar doors, chat and kick the In Tasmania, it is all about quality, not dirt with our wine producers to find out why quantity – Wine Tasmania encourages they have chosen to grow grapes and make responsible consumption of alcohol and wine in our extreme conditions on the edge recommends the following: don’t drink on of the world. an empty stomach, drink plenty of water, use spittoons, take a guided wine tour with Tasmanian wine is crafted to complement our one of the many specialists or, if you plan to island’s produce, so find a view somewhere drive, choose a designated driver. and feast like a local! Pair a delicious Tassie Pinot Noir with slow pulled pork, a glass of sparkling with some freshly shucked oysters, ENJOY SAFELY, WINE TASMANIA 2 Events Calendar 2019–2020 Please refer to our online event calendar 29 February – 1 March 2020 for further updates/changes – Southern & Eastern Vineyards’ Open WWW.WINETASMANIA.COM.AU/EVENTS/ Weekend. Official guide will be published UPCOMING in February in The Mercury. For more info: WWW.WINETASMANIA.COM.AU Every Saturday 9am–1pm 8 March 2020 Harvest Launceston Farmers' Market Taste of the North West, Sheffield, with wine growers/producers in attendance held as part of Mural Fest on a regular basis WWW.TASTEOFTHENORTHWEST.COM.AU WWW.HARVESTMARKET.ORG.AU 8–9 March 2020 Spring 2019 – Summer 2020 A Taste of the Huon, Ranelagh Launceston Night Market, held once a (30 minute scenic drive south of Hobart) month on selected Friday nights WWW.TASTEOFTHEHUON.COM WWW.LAUNCESTONNIGHTMARKET.COM 29– 31 May 2020 9–17 November 2019 VINTAGE TAMAR - celebrate vintage along Effervescence Tasmania – the pre-eminent the Tamar Valley Wine Route with local sparkling wine event in Tasmania food producers and artists WWW.EFFERVESCENCETASMANIA.COM WWW.TAMARVALLEYWINEROUTE.COM.AU 16 November 2019 10–22 June 2020 Bicheno Food and Wine Festival Dark MoFo, including the Midwinter Feast, WWW.BICHENOFESTIVALS.COM.AU Hobart WWW.DARKMOFO.NET.AU 28 December 2019 – 3 January 2020 The Taste of Tasmania, Hobart waterfront 23–26 July 2020 WWW.THETASTEOFTASMANIA.COM.AU Devonport Jazz Festival WWW.DEVONPORTJAZZ.COM 26 January 2020 Henley-on-Mersey Regatta, Latrobe August 2020 WWW.HENLEYONMERSEY.COM.AU VIN Diemen – a celebration of Tasmanian wine, held in Melbourne and Sydney 31 January – 2 February 2020 WWW.VINDIEMEN.COM.AU Festivale – Launceston's celebration of all things food and wine 4–6 September 2020 WWW.FESTIVALE.COM.AU The Great Eastern Wine Weekend, showcasing the region's finest food & wines 16 February 2020 (TBC) WWW.FREYCINETLODGE.COM.AU/WINEWEEKEND Taste the Harvest, Devonport WWW.TASTETHEHARVESTDEVONPORT.COM.AU 1–31 October 2020 Devonport Food & Wine Festival – multiple 21–23 February 2020 events throughout the month of October. Clarence Jazz Festival, Bellerive, Hobart WWW.DEVONPORTFOODANDWINE.COM.AU WWW.CLARENCEARTSANDEVENTS.NET 24 October 2020 23 February 2020 The Seafarer’s Festival, Bellerive Quay, Festival in the Park, Ulverstone Hobart WWW.FESTIVALINTHEPARK.ORG.AU WWW.CLARENCEARTSANDEVENTS.NET 3 cradle coasT wine TRAIL FULL OF COLOUR AND FLAVOUR, TASMANIA’S NORTH WEST IS HOME TO THE BEAUTIFUL CRADLE COAST. YOU’LL FIND CLASSIC COASTAL DRIVES, FOOD AND WINE, STUNNING NATIONAL PARKS AND BEAUTIFUL NATURE RESERVES. This region is the gateway to some of The ideal growing conditions have Tasmania’s most beautiful natural places inspired growers and makers committed – including Cradle Mountain – one of the to producing the very best in fresh crisp island’s most visited natural icons. It’s a vegetables, dairy products, wines, whisky great place for touring, with spectacular and sweet treats for the hungry traveller – views at every turn and some of the the ultimate paddock to plate experience. State’s prettiest cities and towns right on the water’s edge – each with their own Go where the world’s still wild, in a region unique attractions and relaxed seaside that’s home to breathtaking scenery, atmosphere. unbelievable history, gourmet produce and wine and the world’s cleanest air. There’s The food and wine is special too – it’s no end to the experiences on offer. more than just nourishment – it represents the stories of the makers and the land W W W.TASM A NIASNORTH W EST.COM.AU from which it originates. Taste the wine at a local cellar door or take a bottle or two home as gifts or as delicious keepsakes from your visit. things to see and do • Walk to spectacular Dove Lake and take • Marvel at the 1,900 trees of the Tasmanian in the stunning wilderness views in the Arboretum at nearby Eugenana, home to Cradle Mountain National Park. around 80 local bird species. Platypus can be reliably seen most days in Founder’s Lake. • Visit the Makers’ Workshop in Burnie, this contemporary structure is a ‘must see’ and • Stroll the shore in easy going seaside villages supports local artisans, who demonstrate of Ulverstone, Penguin and Wynyard.