 Queensland's Wine Regions
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  Special Introductory Offer $89 (RRP $99). Hurry, for limited time only! A catholic priest is credited with starting the wine industry in Stanthorpe more than a century ago. Fr Jerome Davadi may not have realised that encouraging his parishioners to diversify their farms would have been the genesis of what has become the Queensland wine capital. Situated at 1000 metres above sea level, although we are in Queensland, frost, sleet and sometimes snow affirm that this really is a cool climate wine region. Here January temperatures are in line with the Barossa, Clare and McLaren Vale and winter conditions are similar to Bordeaux. As Queensland’s premier wine region the Granite Belt is home to state’s most awarded wine and produced the 2008 Winestate Wine of the Year in a blind tasting against 10,000 all-comers from Australia and New Zealand. With more than half Queensland's plantings in the region, we have the state’s largest area under vine and the greatest number of cellar door operations. Stanthorpe and surrounding Granite Belt is also home to the Queensland College of Wine Tourism, the Australian Small Winemakers Show and the Strange Bird alternative wine trail. By every measure this IS Queensland's premier wine region. With this background, it is not surprising that in the past year or two the Granite Belt has been described by Australia's foremost wine writers as 'Australia's northern wine capital', another wrote 'it has terroir in spades', and 'the Granite Belt is THE region to watch in the coming decade.' Explore the regions from the menu on the left, or click here to see the full list! |
