Tag: Tasmania
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Mongrel Socks
Mongrel Socks is a Tasmanian owned and operated family business, established in Hobart in the year 2000. In 2019 we purchased the business from Laurie and Helen Timms and then began a new era for Mongrel Socks. With our unique range of beautiful woollen socks, knitted right here in Tasmania by our sock knitter (Paul),…
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Furneaux Distillery
On an island off an island, where you can fly across the sounds or sail past treacherous craggy rocks, you find Furneaux Distillery. Our passion is to create a unique Peated Single Malt Whisky that speaks of its maritime environment. Through deep care and respect for our provenance, we want to bring the spirit, beauty,…
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Tongola Cheese
Tongola was started in the late ’90s when Hans Stuz and Esther Hausermann left Switzerland for the hills overlooking the Huon River in Southern Tasmania. They purchased 16 acres and set about gradually transforming the land into a home for themselves and their small herd of Swiss Toggenburg does. They slowly and gradually built their…
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Spring Bay Seafoods
Spring Bay Seafoods is an Australian based seafood company renowned for producing award winning Australian blue mussels.Our deeper water marine farms stretch across some of the most precious and pristine seawater in the world. The cold and nutritious oceanic waters provide a unique growing environment unrivalled anywhere and allows us to grow our uniquely large,…
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Two Metre Tall Brewery
Way back in 2004 we chose to move our young family across the world from southern French vineyards to a farm in the Derwent Valley in southern Tasmania with a dream of growing vines and making wine. Instead we discovered a rich hop growing history and embarked on a project of ale instead, using ingredients…
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Tasmanian Butter Co.
Butter: the way it was intended. Fresh, cultured, full and delicious. But mostly, to be enjoyed. We are independent and we are small, but our impact is big. We are Tasmanian. Small batch butter that’s cultured slowly using traditional methods, then churned, hand-worked and salted to perfection. This is our labour of love, our ode…
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Meander Valley Dairy
At Meander Valley Dairy we believe that everybody deserves a little indulgence in their everyday lives. We understand that with passion, trusted techniques and quality ingredients we can craft beautiful dairy products that provide that simple delight. We have been crafting some of Australia’s finest and most awarded cream products for over 20 years. Today,…
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Tasmanian Pickled Onions
Just a short 15 minute drive from Devonport, nestled behind beautifully landscaped gardens, encompassing lovely green pastures, you will find our Tasmanian Pickled Onion factory located at 100 Westella Drive, Ulverstone. Fresh onions specially grown on selected farms of the North West Coast of Tasmania are peeled and bottled in our factory. Stringent quality controls,…
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designedmade inc
designedmade inc is a not-for-profit group based in Hobart providing members with a platform to showcase their work and network with other designers and organisations.Its mission is to inspire, connect and represent Tasmanian designers.The aims of designedmade inc. are to encourage and develop initiative in relation to: The group was established in Tasmania in 1995…
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Craig Howard and Son
With over 50 years combined experience in furniture making / design and timber milling. Working with the world renowned Tasmanian special species timbers including Huon Pine, Kingbilly Pine, Celery-top Pine, Blackwood, Blackheart Sassafras, Myrtle and selected imported timbers such as cedar and mahogany. Every piece of furniture is meticulously handcrafted. We use a combination of…
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La Villa Wines
Whilst we may not have appreciated it when we were 22 year olds, our passion for food and wine was ignited during our first trip to Italy.Since returning there 26 years later and reuniting with our friends and families, some of our greatest joys include making tortellini with Franca, making salumi with Livio and picking…
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Kelvedon Estate
Kelvedon was traditionally a fine wool sheep and Cattle property with some cropping, in 1998 the family diversified into Viticulture. Initially 1ha of Pinot clones were planted these vines form the foundation of the very successful Kelvedon Estate Label.Our first hectare of vines were planted in 1998, and the success of the viticulture enterprise has…
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Josef Chromy
Josef Chromy is a man of resilience and commitment, and profoundly shaped the Tasmanian food and wine landscape. While his journey began with ventures into renowned wineries such as Rochecombe (now Bay of Fires), Jansz, Heemskerk, and Tamar Ridge, it’s at his own estate where Joe’s passion for Tasmania truly blossoms today.Though Joe’s remarkable journey…
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Jansz Tasmania
Jansz Tasmania is a luxury sparkling wine house, solely devoted to the art of sparkling winemaking since 1986. Location is integral to growing outstanding fruit and only Tasmania can boast such idyllic conditions. Put simply, it is the perfect place to craft premium sparkling wines. By allowing nature to do the work, our wines are…
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Home Hill Wines
Rosemary and Terry Bennett, the proprietors of Home Hill, look down on the vineyard from their home, pinch themselves, and wonder how their relaxing hobby farm of six rows of vines has turned into an award-winning vineyard that produces some of Australia’s top quality Pinot Noir.Apples were once produced on the site, along with memories…
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Grey Sands Vineyard
Grey Sands Vineyard is a small (3.5 Ha) family-owned vineyard on the western edge of the Tamar Valley in Northern Tasmania – and should be on every wine lover’s list of things to do when you visit Tasmania.Our vineyard site was chosen because of its aspect, slope and low fertility soil. Barrel samples of Pinot…
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Dalrymple Vineyard
Tasmania’s rugged coastal beauty and cool climate terrain first ignited a passionate pursuit to craft the perfect single site wines back in 1987, well before the rest of the world caught on. Such inspired the founding of Dalrymple Vineyards on the sloping hills of Pipers River, overlooking Bass Strait. Since then, people around the world have fallen in…
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Clarence House Winery
Clarence House was built in the early 1830s by William Nichols – “master builder and overseer of convicts” – who had substantial holdings in the district of the Clarence Plains Rivulet. The house itself was built in two stages, whereas the adjoining stables began construction in 1826 and were not finished until 1928. Clarence House…
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Brook Eden Vineyard
Brook Eden is a small, family-owned, sustainably managed vineyard and producer of elegant, true cool-climate wines.To find our cellar door, you have to drive about a half hour north of Launceston, turn down a country lane off Pipers Brook Road, then come about 300m up our driveway, (avoiding the ducks and water hens on the…
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Broad Arrow Wines
Spikey Bridge Vineyard is centred around family, and Ros and Martin Rees are thrilled to be in partnership with Katie and Jeremy Dineen in creating our friendly but mature tasting wines. Our wines are made exclusively from the renowned convict travelled property of Spikey Bridge Vineyard in Relbia, Tasmania.The joining of our families in this…
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Broad Acres Vineyard
Our coastal vineyard is located ideally between Ulverstone and Devonport on the Cradle Coast in an ideal maritime climate with Bass Strait to the North and Tasmania’s highland mountains to the South.Established in 2016 in the cool maritime climate of the North West of Tasmania, the coastal vineyard has five varieties of grapes: Pinot Noir,…
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Bremley Vineyard
Bremley Vineyard is the northern most vineyard in Tasmania’s Coal River Valley.Originally planted with 2 hectares of Chardonnay in the early 2000’s, the current custodians, James and Vanessa Bresnehan, have added Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc and Gamay to the mix.Since purchasing the property in 2008, James and Vanessa have developed Vineyard area to its current…
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Bream Creek Vineyard
While the modern Tasmanian wine industry is young in terms of years established, Bream Creek Vineyard an be considered as one of the industry’s pioneering wineries. Our vineyard at Bream Creek was planted in the early 1970s, making it amongst the earliest commercial vineyards planted in Tasmania. The Bream Creek Vineyard wine label was established…
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Barringwood Estate
Along with our original vineyard in Lower Barrington Barringwood has planted two new vineyards in Evandale and Cranbrook.All our vineyard operations focus on producing low yields of premium grapes and believe that the key to achieving this is an unwavering attention to detail. Our vines are trained on a combination of vertical shoot positioned (VSP)…