Venue: Wallangarra Railway Station

Contact Details:

+ 61 7 4684 3300

The Border Railway Market is held on the third Sunday of each month at the historic Wallangarra Railway Station, on the Queensland-New South Wales Border, just a short drive south of Stanthorpe. They offer the pick of local art, craft and produce, as well as a hot breakfast, light refreshments and takeaways being available in the station dining room. Coaches welcome.

 

Venue: Stanthorpe Civic Centre, Cnr Marsh & Lock Sts

Contact Details:

Ken Hinton 0417 760 529

Quality Arts and Crafts with a local flavour. Wonderful wares, fabulous food, goodies galore. Coaches welcome. Access and facilities for disabled, translating and interpreting services available. Right in the heart of Stanthorpe's Granite Belt at the Stanthorpe Civic Centre. 

Click here to view exact calendar dates for 2010.

Venue: Whiskey Gully Wines

Contact Details:

Bookings (07) 4683 5100 or email Denice Arlidge

Music Night with featured artists (check our webpage) and talented local musicians playing every second Friday from 7pm.  Come along to listen or bring your own instrument and perform. Entry $10. Meals and drinks available.

Venue: Bella Rosa's Tea Rooms, Cottage and Garden Centre

Contact Details:

For more information and bookings phone (07) 4685 2367 and visit the website www.bellarosas.com.au

You can smell the roasts cooking and feel the warmth of the fire as you enter the restaurant. Join the Burtons at Bella Rosa’s Tea Rooms for their ‘Christmas in Winter’ functions. Enjoy nibbles and coffee with liquere chocolates served by the fire while mingling with other guests.

Soups, mains of roast meats, seasonal veggies and sauces, desserts of Grandma’s Plum Pudding and Apple Crumble with custard and butterscotch sauce are served at your table.

Christmas carols, bon bons and a visit from Santa with gifts are something to look forward to.

Bookings essential and available every Friday and Saturday Nights throughout the months of June, July & August. Also available any night of the week for groups of 8 or more.

Christmas lunch also available daily from June to August. Bookings required & minimum numbers apply.

Venue: RAVENS CROFT WINES

Contact Details:

For more information please contact Mark Ravenscroft on (07) 4683 3252 or by email at mark@ravenscroftwines.com.au. For more about Ravens Croft Wines please head over to the website: www.ravenscroftwines.com.au

This fun and educational tour conducted by winemaker Mark Ravenscroft takes you through the vineyard, discusing grapegrowing and it's challenges. A winetasting in the vineyard and then at the cellar door. It will be followed by a winery tour with tank and barrel tasting. An antipasta lunch in the winery with wine follows. 3 hours of fun. Bookings are essential by the preceding Wednesday please

Price: $50

Time: 11.30am to 2.30am

Venue: Claudia's Country Restaurant

Contact Details:

679 Thorndale Rd, Stanthorpe Ph: 07 4683 5117 www.thunderboltfarm.com.au

Every Saturday night except Bastille Day (July 11) Come along and enjoy a wonderful, fire-warmed Christmas night in the eclectic restaurant .  The menu is "Christmas"... just perfect for a cold winter's night.  This time of year the outside mercury can drop to zero or less, but insde, the fire keeps us toasty warm.  Live singing of Christmas carols fill the air and the Christmas tree and decorations complete the experience. 

Venue: South Bank, Little Stanley Street

Contact Details:

Consumers: Phone (07) 4681 2057 or email  info@granitebeltwinecountry.com.au Media & Marketing: GBWT Marketing Michele Cozzi (07) 4681 0411 or email

Experience wine, food and pamper products from the Queensland wine capital and meet the people who have lovingly produced these items. Take some home to share with those you love. For a little Elevated Taste join us in Little Stanley Street on Saturday 24 July 10am-3pm.

Venue: Brisbane Hilton

Contact Details:

Alison Alexander 07 3231 3239 or email

Since 1995 the Hilton Brisbane Masterclass has brought together a fabulous line-up of chefs and winemakers from around the world – Antonio Carluccio, Gordon Ramsay, Michel Richard, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Michel Roux and many more.  This year's programme includes an "Asian Affairs" segment sponsored by Granite Belt Wine Country.

Be amongst the lucky participants in 2010 who taste, learn, laugh and sip their way through each day. With twenty sessions a day there’s plenty of choice from a range of talented International and Australian presenters looking at - shiraz, chocolate, champagne, spice and matching food and wine. Learn more now www.qldmasterclass.com

Venue: Brisbane to the Granite Belt Region

Contact Details:

For bookings and information call (07) 3252 1759 between 10:00am and 3:00pm.

A relaxing and unique way to experience the Granite Belt without the hassle of road travel. This all-inclusive trip departs from Brisbane's Roma Street at 7:00am on Saturday 31st July, climbing over the Great Dividing Range through Toowoomba and then onto Stanthorpe.  Granite Belt wines are served throughout the journey - sparkling, whites and reds including Strange Birds are available for tasting.  Lunch and refreshments are served onboard ...what a great way to travel - and not a traffic jam in sight!
Once "ashore", your tour bus takes you to several wineries, to dinner, bed and breakfast, one last winetasting then it's all aboard for the return journey.

The return journey departs at 10am on Sunday, 1st August with lunch served on board.

Price is $430 with discounts for group bookings of ten or more.  The price includes all rail travel, coach transfers at Stanthorpe, all meals, accommodation in Stanthorpe on a share basis and wine tastings.

For more information download the Winter Winelander Brochure & Booking Form.