Gourmet Travel

Melbourne - Victoria

Yarra Valley Food & Wine Journey

Visit De Bortoli Winery, a third generation, Italian family owned winery. From its vineyards in this premium wine growing region, De Bortoli makes a wide range of award winning wines including the world acclaimed sweet white Noble One. Be seated in the Trophy Room for a private tasting with cheese and fruit. Visit the Produce Store at the historic Yering Station Winery, showcasing produce from the region and taste estate wines at the Old Winery Building.Continue your food and wine journey with lunch at Domaine Chandon while enjoying stunning views of the vineyards and lake. Visit Coldstream Hills Winery for wine tasting and conclude the afternoon at the 100-year-old working Yarra Valley Dairy and sample hand-made farm cheeses. Taste wine at the adjacent Yarra Valley Wine Hub, a cellar door for producers of single vineyard wines from low yielding, distinctive vineyards.

Tour de Foodies – New Spa, Cooking and Golf Wine Experiences.

We have gathered a group of experts from celebrity chefs to famous & infamous wine makers to provide a plethora of new experiences. It is undeniable that Asian and Mediterranean cultures have influenced our Australian lifestyle, from food, wine and culture.

Golf & Gourmet Celebrity Chef - Day Tour - 3 Day / 2 Night

Start the tour with an informative introduction to Adelaide prior to a hit of golf at Adelaide's historic Royal Adelaide Golf Club. The course is ranked in Australia's top 5 and recognised as the most challenging in Adelaide. The third hole is regarded as the finest short par 4 in Australia. With a glass of wine in hand enjoy, taste and talk through the culinary delights being prepared by your celebrity chef. Take the time to engage the chef, Andrew Fielke and gain another insight to the way Australians enjoy their fabulous food and wine. Andrew Fielke is know as "The Wizard of OZ as he continues to perform magic with unique Australian products". He is renown as Australia's leading chef and authority on preparing innovative Australian Native Cuisine. This hands on experience gives you the opportunity to assist in the preparation of your meal if you wish, or just sit back and indulge!!

Wine & Wellness - Day Tour / 4 Day/ 3 Night

This exciting new tour experience encompasses Wine & Wellness. Start the day with a morning bush walk through the picturesque Adelaide Hills. A simple healthy gourmet breakfast follows at The Aquador Retreat. Nestled in the picturesque Adelaide hills, Aquador Retreat is a complete Wellness Centre with a difference, specialising in hydrotherapy, the European style wellness centre futures a hydro spa, homeopathic hot pool, cold plunge pool and 3 different saunas to unwind and relax. We offer you a truly unique experience. Dora's signature bathhouse treatment is not to be missed.
By day, be pampered by adding any of the spa treatments to the wellness centre visit. Find peace in the relaxation garden, wander into the café and enjoy lunch and dinner lovingly prepared with the freshest hills produce. Stay overnight in one of the relaxing and ever so cosy accommodation rooms, complete with special health flexi slats beds and natural latex mattress.
Sleep like a baby, awaken for an early fresh start of the day and join your hosts on an invigorating morning walk followed by yoga stretches or utilise our well equipped gym for a morning work out before a healthy breakfast. The world class chef & restaurateur, Bernard Oehrli produces the contemporary Australian cuisine which is complemented by fine cool climate wines from the Adelaide Hills. Invigorated and rested, you spend the second day enjoying the fine boutique Hills wines.

Collect, Create and Cook - Day Tour

Enjoy a progressive food lovers guide to Adelaide. With an early morning start in the Adelaide Central Markets we choose the fresh food and produce that we will use as part of Rosa Matto's cooking class. The market experience is an indepth "chefs eye view" of the markets, it-s a serious foodies tour!! The trip focuses on cultural diversity and explains how various waves of immigration have shaped our food culture.You get to buy the unfamiliar and cook with it. After returning to the cooking school, learning hands on "the way it is done" you enjoy the fruits of your labor wine chosen from small regional producers.

Collect, Create and Cook Consistently - from 2 to 5 Day Tour

This special tour incorporates the markets and the cooking school with Rosa but is a more extensive tour that involves meeting some of Adelaide's new and up and coming chefs. From the markets, we also can head out to the market gardens, exploring the Asian influences, Vietnamese, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food trails that also give us insight into the culture. This tour features hands on cooking schools at the fabulous Chapel Hill Cooking school and/or Thornpark Country House as we discover the local food and wines in the Clare and McLaren Vale wine regions always meeting wine makers and eating and preparing delicious regional cuisine.

Spa Country Experience - Victoria

Day Spa Country Experience Step out along the Great Dividing Trail, the track that links the towns at the heart of Victoria's gold rush heritage. From lively Daylesford to historic Castlemaine, there is always more than meets the eye. River beds awash with gold, stories of towns from boom to bust, and of course the water that has made the region's fortunes for generations. Retire each night to the award winning Lake House, indulge in stunning local produce and reward your body with a rejuvenating spa or massage at journey's end.

 

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