Food Facts
Located on Queensland’s Southern Downs, the town of Stanthorpe and surrounding Granite Belt is Queensland’s apple and grape capital. The region is home to a multi-million dollar horticultural and agricultural sector as well as to a modern and highly awarded viticulture and wine industry. It produces superfine Traprock wool and is home to an increasing number of organic producers.
As a food and wine producing area, the Granite Belt is unique in Australia for these reasons:
· Its northerly latitude, combined with its elevation, produce intense flavour in apples, pears and stone fruit. This creates a combination of severe winter frost and Queensland sunshine during the ripening period.
· Its combination of cool weather and decomposed granite soils, create the conditions which produce Queensland’s most awarded wines.
· These factors and the clean air combine to create an area favourable to growing a very wide range of fresh produce. This is not a one-crop fruit or vegetable region. Nor is it a wine region with one single hero grape variety.
For a comprehensive list of facts about the Granite Belt food industry click here
The diverse range of produce is reflected in our average seasonal temperatures are:
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