Tasmania's Food and Produce
A fine food lovers' paradise
Rediscover the flavours of your childhood --
the way food used to taste, and let your palate guide you from
exquisite Tasmanian
delicacies to mouth- watering desserts, in Australia's fresh
food state.
Nature has lavished on Tasmania all the elements for growing
the finest foods.
The island's isolation forms a natural barrier to pests and disease and a gentle climate, lacking extremes of heat or cold, produces long growing seasons and true-to-flavour produce.
On the north-western headland the state's air is so clean it is monitored as a benchmark for pollution across the world.
Pure island water, from plentiful rain and natural springs, is bottled and sold throughout the world and used to brew renowned Tasmanian beers, and whisky from one of the few distilleries in Australia.
Your quest for fine food and wine will take you to remarkable people in remote, remarkable places. You will dine in historic cottages and converted stables, on cruising yachts and on picnic rugs by gently-flowing rivers.
You will travel around the state to acclaimed Tasmanian vineyards, tasting still and sparkling wines from slowly-ripened grapes and French-style gourmet cheeses from some of the richest dairy land in the nation.
You will dine on Pacific oysters, blue mussels, Atlantic salmon and ocean trout from Tasmania's harbours and bays; crayfish and scallops (in season) bought fresh fiom fishing boats.
Or you may travel to the highlands to an alpine lake or stream and spend a day in perfect solitude, and catch a brown or rainbow trout.