Hobart & The Gourmet Taste of Tasmania

Scott and the airport shuttles will transfer you to Sydney Airport for your flight to Hobart where our coach will be waiting to take you to the four-star Old Woolstore Hotel for a 5 night stay.

A foodie tour of Southern Tasmania would not be complete without a day out to the famous Coal Valley wine region. A stop along the way at the charming, historic Georgian village of Richmond. We’ll visit the stunning Pooley Wine Estate, moving on to a fantastic lunch at the innovative Frogmore Creek Winery whose senior wine maker Alain Rousseau uses experimental techniques to produce a range of complex, unconventional and intriguing wines. We finish the day with a trip to Coal Valley Vineyard where the wines are made from 100% single site estate grown fruit.

On Saturdays, Salamanca Place comes alive with the famous Salamanca Markets. Over 300 stallholders sell fresh and gourmet produce, arts, crafts and handiworks from all over Tasmania. After the markets, we journey down the Huon Valley. With 80% of the island’s apple production, the Huon Valley gives Tasmania it affectionate nickname “The Apple Isle”. In recent years the area has well and truly broadened its palate with a preponderance of gourmet food and drink. Combined with stunning scenery this is a fantastic way to spend the afternoon and we will meet some of the special producer growers of the area and taste the valley. We see Hobart by night this evening and dine at one of Hobart’s many stand out restaurants.

We will venture up Mt Wellington this morning before embarking on a uniquely Tasmanian tour. Tasmanian Wild Seafood Adventures takes us on a gastronomic maritime adventure combining the beauty of Tasmania’s landscapes with the culinary delight of the freshest of Tasmanian seafood on the River Derwent. The crew are local fishermen and divers, experts in their craft, and they’ll bring aboard the freshest catches straight from the surrounding waters. Expert chefs prepare Tasmanian treasures before your eyes such as rock lobster, oysters, blacklip abalone, mussels, urchin, Atlantic salmon and periwinkles. The tastes and flavours reflect the pure, untouched waters of Tasmania. After a day of degustation, a relaxed evening with dinner at own expense. We suggest a short walk to lively constitution dock, where restaurants, bars and the stationary fish punts all congregate.

Today we visit Tasmania’s Central Highlands and the global award winning Curringa Farm. We spend the morning with Tim and Jane Parsons, 6th generation Tasmanian farmers and winners of the World Agritourism Awards 2023 & 2024 whose passion for their working 750 acre sheep and cropping farm is evident in everything they do. We’ll learn about their sheep and wool production, see their working dogs in action along with in depth conversations about crops and landcare including their unique opium poppies and seed crops of onions. After a BBQ lunch on the farm we’ll meander our way home with stops along the way. Our final evening, we dine out at Hobarts iconic historical and art restaurant, Landscape, Surrounded by the inspirational artworks of John Glover.

We fly back to Sydney where the airport shuttles are waiting to take you home.