Your Food and Wine Travel Guide -  VisitVineyards.com

VisitVineyards.com® unlocks the secrets of food and wine country across Australia. Want wine reviews and savvy food and wine travel information? Come food and wine tasting with us.

Food and Wine Competitions:

Enter our May competition - win one of 3 pairs of tickets to the fabulous Winter Wine Fest on Victoria's Mornington  Peninsula, or one of 3 copies of the Wine Map of Victoria by Max Allen and Martin von Wyss. Find out more about these great prizes here. Don't delay - this month's draw is early - ticket prizes drawn 19th May.

VisitVineyards.com - Your Food and Wine Travel Guide:

Are you epicurious? You've tried the wine, tasted the food - and you love it. So now you want to get out and see where it comes from! But where to start?

Imagine visiting the vineyard, experiencing the terroir, seeing the winery in action... not just as a normal tourist, but as a special guest. Meeting the winemaker as he or she hovers over barrels of the next vintage, chatting with the grower, gourmet food maker or chef, busy crafting delicious produce fresh from the earth.... if this is what you'd like, you're in the right place, a unique place for wine and food explorers worldwide. VisitVineyards.com®

So come with us on one of the tastiest, most exciting journeys around. Wine and food regions are the hot new destinations of the world. Our food and wine travels cover all of in sunny Australia, and include all states and territories: Victoria, New South Wales, the ACT, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Our first regional site where you can explore the wineries and food of the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria will open very soon.

Food and Wine Events:

Discover what's happening in Australia's many wine and food regions.  Looking for wine and food events and festivals? Want the best travel information? Or just to find the best winery - or even a microbrewery - to chill out with your friends this weekend, whilst sampling the local food delicacies?

Food and Wine Reviews:

If you are already a wine connoisseur, you'll find new things here too. We are continually scouring Australia for the new, up-and-coming wineries, the hit wines of tomorrow, the hidden treasures.... VisitVineyards®  features over 3000 Australian wineries and vineyards, the majority of which are boutique, many little known outside their own region or not on any other websites. Dedicated foodies are catered for, too!

• Easy to access wine and food travel information – VisitVineyards® is unique in that it is an Australia-wide website just for wine and food travellers, where all the information you need is a click or two away.
  

• The biggest and most comprehensive database in Australia on wineries and vineyards (over 3000, and growing daily), food producers, growers and sellers, and more - many of these are not found anywhere else online.

• Expert recommendations on each State and region’s best wine, wineries and vineyards, most notable restaurants, most delicious gourmet food producers, the most peaceful places to relax and the most exciting places to play.

• Live booking of your accommodation using our booking partners Roamfree.com and V3 (so you get the best rates and real-time availability) from our selection of the best places to stay. From the Hunter Valley to Margaret River, north Queensland to southern Tasmania, you'll find the right place for your needs.
  

• Be in the know! Expert up-to-date, independent reviews on wine, food and restaurants, by leading writers, so you can be sure they are right before you visit, too.

• Special wine and food travel deals.

• Other exclusive benefits, like our fantastic Jancis Robinson.com membership offer (scroll down to discover more).

Your Independent Food and Wine Guide:

VisitVineyards.com is totally independent and we do not accept a listing fee from any of our products. Nor do we simply reprint press releases or run 'advertorial'. We are privately owned and operated, and we research the products and list them only if we think they are of a standard you would enjoy. So you can be confident that they are right for you.

We haven't fully launched yet, so stay tuned. Our new homepage will be revealed soon, with special features for what's new, wine and food of the week, best wineries, best foodie places and what's on brought to you by some of Australia's leading wine and food critics and writers, with easier navigation. But right now you can browse through the menus on the left and right, and see what's on offer. Check out the video of the winemaker or chef of the week, read a few articles, discover some hidden gems.... and be assured that your next visit to wine and food country will more than meet your expectations.

More about Australian wine and food regions....

Australian wine and food country is fascinatingly diverse, and offers much more than wine and food. Just as the landscape and climate of each region is unique, so too are the activities, tastes and adventures on offer.

In Australia you can enjoy elegant sparkling wines and beautiful chestnuts in cool mountain regions. Beautifully treacly muscat and melt-in-the-mouth lamb on the banks of wide, slow rivers. Crisp white wines and fresh seafood by the beach. Get in touch with your food, discover how it's made and where it comes from. Dine in style at some of the world's best restaurants. And all this in a clean, uncrowded environment that is the envy of the world.

But how do you know where to go? VisitVineyards® unlocks the secrets, and gives you some guidance. And as well as wine and food, to provide some diversion from all the great eating and drinking, we bring you information on other things you might like to know about, including

• golf courses (some right by wineries);

• art galleries, antiques and craft markets;

• events and festivals,
  

• farmers' markets, growers and makers;

• micro-breweries;

• boutiques, produce stores, and shopping in wine and food regions;
  

• spas and health centres;

• other great activities like cycling, walking and riding, and
  

• attractions from gardens to lighthouses to penguin colonies, and more. Check out our database search and you'll see what we mean!
  

The Best of Food and Wine Travel

Until now, it's been hard to find exactly what you want. But no longer. Or maybe you are from overseas and haven't heard of all these places?  Rest assured - you are in the right place. We sort through them first, and bring you only the best of the best,  by State, by region and by product. We already have over 25,000 fantastic places for you to enjoy, and the number is growing every day. 

Your time is valuable, especially on holiday, so we don't just list everything, we check it out first and see if it's worth a visit, or drinking or eating! Our team of independent experts combs Australia’s wine and food country for the new, the unmissable, the hidden gems. Find

• the must-visit wineries;

• the iconic producers;

• the new discoveries

and what else you shouldn't miss.  From butchers and bakers to wine, chocolate and candlestick makers, if they're good (yes, we try them), they're here on VisitVineyards.com, just for you and easy to find. You can add your own comments and reviews right now, too.

With over 200 onsite food and wine videos and interviews with top Australian winemakers and chefs and panoramas so you can almost feel what it's like before you visit, VisitVineyards® is the means of discovery you’ve been looking for.

Now you can also book accommodation direct in all Australian wine and food regions, right there! Plus have the opportunity to save money (giving you more to treat yourself on wine and food delicacies!) and (later) sign up to receive exclusive members-only benefits and experiences, like special open-days at impossible to get into vineyards, behind-the-scenes invitations and other privileges. Click here to read about some of the benefits we bring you now.

How Can You Benefit when you Visit Wineries, Restaurants and Food Outlets?

All you have to do is become a subscriber - it's FREE. Then you can access all the information on our site (and some special extras from our partners, to be announced soon!), be notified of wine and food events, and more. Never miss out again. You can also enter our monthly competitions to win exclusive prizes like our delicious VisitVineyards® Mornington Peninsula gourmet food and wine hamper, some great wine and food books, or selected premium Australian wines.  So, what have you to lose?

Our full membership program will open year, starting in Victoria's fabulous Mornington Peninsula. 33,000 wine and food lovers in Australia and internationally can't be wrong, so join today and be part of the exciting new VisitVineyards® network. Our new regional site VisitMorningtonVineyards.com is opening soon.

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Fantastic news from Jancis Robinson!

We are delighted to announce that all Visit Vineyards® subscribers can now access Jancis Robinson's members' only Purple Pages and the world's only online version of The Oxford Companion to Wine (now in its 3rd edition) in an exclusive arrangement generously offered to you by Jancis Robinson.

Pay only A$109, and save A$50 (30% off* the full A$ price of A$159) immediately when you susbcribe to VisitVineyards.com (which is free) and you become a member JancisRobinson.com (*paying in Australian dollars).

For those of you who don't know, Jancis Robinson MW is perhaps the world's best wine author and critic - or second best,  depending on your views on Robert Parker - and is based in London. (Robert Parker definitely has the worst wine dog though, as can be seen on Winedogs.com beside Visit Vineyards' very own wine dog MOG, aka Matter Other than Grapes).

Jancis' vast wine knowledge and wonderful prose is certainly not confined to the wines of Europe and America, and her website JancisRobinson.com  includes many Australian and other international wine reviews and tasting notes (819 Australian wine reviews, last time we counted). She also scripts and makes evocative and entertaining wine films.

The LA Times survey of wine websites describes her site: 'For my money, the site worth paying for is www.jancisrobinson.com'

Anyone interested in the wider world of wine should be a member of JancisRobinson.com - and for the exclusive Visit Vineyards® subscriber price of A$109, now there is no excuse not to! You can even buy one as a gift.

Read more* about our special Jancis Robinson offer, here at Visit Vineyards® now. Actual % savings will depend on currency variations and credit card charges (if any).

P.S. from the Visit Vineyards Team

VisitVineyards® is a wine and food lover's site -  feel free to browse. For  information on how to use the search (coming soon) and on all the other things we offer you, please go to our help and faq pages, where you can also find a useful sitemap.

Remember,  your wine and food travel experience starts here – with the VisitVineyards® team.