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 and 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. Lake Barrine is something special as it is actually a water filled crater left by a volcanic eruption approximately 10,000 years ago. Enjoy a delicious breakfast made with fresh local produce, and a special ‘Lake Barrine’ coffee or local tea at the charming 80 year old lakeside teahouse amongst beautiful terraced gardens.

Stop 2: Winter & Mann Private Property

Here we taste an array of locally made and sourced produce at their beautiful Queenslander home with your host Anna explaining where everything is from, grown or made.

Then we visit their gorgeous store where community, sustainability, and family values seamlessly meld. The ethos revolves around championing the local community by partnering with over 140 remarkable businesses in North Queensland.

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. In order to create a natural environment for the development of the platypus, plants are naturally grown in accordance with the habitat of the platypus.

We take a wander down to see them in this magnificent setting then sit down to enjoy flavoured handcrafted smoked products, combined with a unique blend of local Australian native herbs and spices.

These tasty treats are all produced in-house using only the freshest quality ingredients and include Crocodile, Red Claw (Yabby) and Kangaroo with fresh local salads topped off with a ‘Tarzali Lakes’ boutique beer, Dragon Fruit cider, Lemon Myrtle tea and some tastings of the Murdering Point Winery range. (Menu (EXCLUSIVE to our tour.) Time to purchase some of the smoked products and sauces.

Stop 4: Gallo Dairyland CHEESE PLATTER & 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. Here we will have a selection of their delicious cheeses and irresistible Swiss style filled chocolates that are a work of art whilst gazing out over the picturesque landscape. Meet some friendly animals before heading back to Mareeba through a variety of diverse crops.

Stop 5: The Humpy Nut World

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. Here we get to taste some seasonal fruits and many different flavours of hot local peanuts and macadamia nuts. We leave you time to browse this amazing and quirky grocery store so you can purchase goodies for the rest of your stay.

Stop 6: Mount Uncle Distillery

Then just down the road we arrive at Australian Distiller of the year 2017, Mount Uncle Distillery, North Queensland’s first distillery. Here we taste some of their Award winning liqueurs and spirits. Then take a wander round this stunning property nestled in coffee and banana plantations, with beautiful gardens and friendly animals.

Stop 7: Emerald Creek Ice Creamery ICE CREAM TASTING BOWLS

Our next stop of the day is Emerald Creek Ice creamery a family-owned business Positioned on 2.15ha on the Kennedy Highway between Mareeba and Kuranda. Their Ice-cream is made on-site in their factory using pure cream and full cream milk. Sorbets (dairy free, full fruit) also made on-site using local Tablelands fruit. Sit on the balcony or gardens and enjoy a tasting of their ice creams and sorbet that is unique and tropical.

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A Foodie tour from Cairns 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.'