Brett's Outback Tasting Tour From Cairns

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Welcome to Brett's Outback Tasting Tour from Cairns

Brett's Outback Tasting Adventures will take you on a delicious and fantastic Food and Wine tasting adventure showcasing the spectacular Atherton Tablelands.

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Tour from 8am to 5pm

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Stop 1 : Lake Barrine National Park & Heritage Tea House - Full Breakfast

A mere 1 hour drive from Cairns via the scenic Gillies Highway brings you to the cool atmosphere of the Atherton Tablelands, where you will come across a beautiful, enchanting natural lake hidden in World Heritage Rainforest. 

Stop 2 : Nerada Tea Plantation - Morning Tea

Nerada Tea Plantation is situated on the scenic outskirts of Malanda. Here you will be tasting several of the Plantation grown, single origin teas, such as Plantation Fresh Black, Lemon Myrtle and Royal Devonshire, black tea with a hint of natural vanilla. The teas will be paired with a selection of local Gallo cheeses.

Stop 3 : Australian Platypus Park - Gourmet Lunch

The Australian Platypus Park is home to a thriving platypus population. These wonderful creatures can be found in a spring fed pond surrounded by lush tropical vegetation.

Stop 4 : Gallo Dairyland - Chocolate Tasting

We now head towards the historic village of Atherton. Driving through this thriving hub, a patchwork of amazing farmland and rolling green hills appear before us. We are on our way to a fully operational dairy farm spread across 1000 acres of rich red volcanic soil with delicious handcrafted chocolates and a gourmet cheese factory.

STOP 5: The Humpy Nut World - Tropical Fruits & Nuts Tasting

We now head through a patchwork of amazing farmland, diverse crops and rolling green hills for a tasting and shopping treat. We stop at ‘The Humpy’, the best place to go to for freshly harvested Atherton Tablelands produce straight from the growers. From vegetables to tropical fruits and hundreds of different varieties of nuts, dried fruits locally produced jams and sauces.

Stop 6 : Mt Uncle Distillery - Liqueurs & Spirits Tasting

Then just down the road we arrive at Australian Distiller of the year 2017, Mount Uncle Distillery, North Queensland’s first and only distillery. Here we taste some of their Award winning liqueurs and spirits.

Stop 7: Jaques Family Coffee Plantation - Coffee & Liqueur Tasting Platter

Next stop is to Jaques Family coffee plantation the 3rd generation; with 85,000 Arabica Coffee trees growing in the rich soils they produce a smooth and vibrant flavour unique only to the remarkable location. Here we get an enchanting insight in to the finer details of coffee from the tree to the cup. We stroll through the gardens and finish our stop with a delicious tasting platter of coffees, a tea made from the shell of the coffee bean and lemonade scones with local jam, Mungali cream and coffee liqueurs.

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A Foodie tour from Port Douglas you will thoroughly enjoy and remember.

This unique food and wine experience from Port Douglas will be tasting some of the best food and wine that the Atherton Tablelands has to offer.

The rich volcanic soil allows farmers to grow many and diverse crops from Bananas, coffee, sugar cane, avocados, mangoes, macadamia nuts, citrus and more which you will learn about as we taste our way around the regions 'Food Bowl.'