About Brett's Outback Tasting Adventures from CAIRNS

FEATURING THE TROPICAL 'DELIGHTS' OF THE ATHERTON TABLELANDS

tropical fruit tasting

Hi my name is Brett and I'd like to tell you about my delicious and fantastic Food and Wine tasting adventure showcasing the spectacular Atherton Tablelands. A Foodie tour from Cairns you will thoroughly enjoy and remember.

This boutique food and wine experience from Cairns will be tasting some of the best food and wine that the Atherton Tablelands has to offer. We will take you through a variety of contrasting landscapes, from lush rainforest to stunning ochre savannah plains. 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.'

Sit back and relax, take in the beautiful views as we take you on a fascinating and tasty journey through another gem of Far North Queensland.

Brett's Outback Tasting Adventures from CAIRNS

 

Departing Cairns & Northern Beaches
Wednesday to Saturday 8.00am returning 5.30pm
Small Personalised Tours Specialising In Service EXCELLENCE

Wines, Spirits, Beers, Cheeses, Atherton Red Claw (Cray Fish), Kangaroo, Crocodile, Coffee, Chocolates, Nuts, Tropical Fruits and Platypus Viewing!

Includes

  • Full breakfast
  • Morning tea
  • Gourmet lunch
  • Afternoon tea
  • All tastings

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. Lake Barrine is something special as it is actually a water filled crater left by a volcanic eruption approximately 10,000 years ago. Here we enjoy a delicious breakfast of local produce and enjoy a special 'Lake Barrine' coffee or local tea at the charming 80 year old lakeside teahouse amongst beautiful terraced gardens overlooking the Lake.

The timber teahouse was originally built in the 1930s as a dance hall and has since had many uses, including an aquatic centre, guest house, school; and during World War II, it was a convalescent home. The 3rd generation of the Curry family still own, and the 4th generation manages the teahouse and boat cruises. Their commitment to preserving the natural heritage of the lake has remained unchanged for the past 90 years.

STOP 2:
SURPRISE STOP
MORNING TEA
Brett and the team are busy finding an amazing experience for you this stop will be a surprise.

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 wonder 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.

All in-house smoked meats are locally sourced from around the tablelands. All food scraps from the cafe feed the animals.

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.

Here we can buy the delicious cheeses that we have just tasted and sample 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.

Gallo milk 350 cows twice a day, which equates to 20 L of milk per cow per day. Some of their sustainable practices include scraping the animal food lot into the manure pit to use as fertilizer and using rainwater to clean the 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.

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:
MT UNCLE DISTILLERY
LIQUEURS & SPIRITS TASTING
hen 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.

Then take a wander round this stunning property nestled in coffee and banana plantations, with beautiful gardens and friendly animals.

Increased interest in and understanding of Australia’s Indigenous heritage has, in part, been driven by education and the accessibility of native foods and ingredients, nowhere more so than in the development of the Australian gin industry while supporting ethical and sustainable practices.

Founded in 2002, Mount Uncle Distillery was one of the first distilleries to embrace native botanicals in its gin recipe. Founder Mark Watkins discovered an early gin recipe used by local settlers and set himself the challenge of replacing the traditional ingredients with native.

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.

A family owned and operated business employing up to 15 staff year round, now in business for 40 years in Australia and pioneering the Australian commercial coffee growing industry in the late 1970’s. Jaques Coffee is a proudly sustainable business adding further to its solar system in 2019, have a total of 470 solar panels now offsetting the entire operation from the farm pumping, tourist centre, Roastery coffee driers and processing mills producing up to 1 Megawatt of power per day.

Another proud achievement is of the Jaques family is the design of the world’s first mechanical coffee harvester in the 1980’s which can still be seen in operation today as one of two coffee harvesters in operation on the plantation today.


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THE BEST FOOD AND WINE TOUR IN PORT DOUGLAS COMES TO CAIRNS

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By Brett's Outback Tasting Adventures from CAIRNS

17 May 2017

We are pleased to announce Brett’s Outback Tasting Adventures will be available from Cairns from June 1st 2017. FEATURING THE TROPICAL ‘DELIGHTS’ OF THE ATHERTON TABLELANDS MORE TASTINGS! MORE DRINKS! MORE FUN! Based on 3 years of continued success from Port Douglas, Brett’s Outback Tasting will bring to Cairns a variety of 7 stops tasting wines, spirits, beers, cheeses, coffee, chocolate, nuts and Tropical fruits. Passengers will enjoy a fascinating commentary whilst travelling through beautiful country side eating and drinking all day with a maximum of only 12 passengers they are guaranteed personal service. See below review!!

Brett's Outback Tasting Adventures from CAIRNS Reviews

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Alby Diaz

I've been on many wine tours in different parts of the world and this was easily one of the best I've ever been on. A wonderful day out with wonderful people! Brett was so knowledgeable of the area, I learned so much about the region and the food and wine included in this tour were absolutely delicious. The tropical fruits and the cheeses and wines were Devine. Can't recommend this enough while in Cairns or Port Douglas.

TC

Terence Corcoran

We went on Bretts outback food tasting tour and loved it. Brett was very entertaining and knowledgeable. The food and drinks throughout the day were also awesome.

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