TROPICAL FRUIT WINERIES
Dedicated wine lovers may fear that the opportunities for wine tasting in Tropical North Queensland will be limited to a bottle of mass produced Cab Sav from the local liquor store. No? Well, once again Far North Queensland seems determined to surprise and delight... and offer something for everyone. We have found no less than ten Tropical North Queensland wineries; fruit wineries using North Queensland tropical fruits such as mango, banana, lychee, pineapple, passionfruit, black sapote, and pitaya. So pucker up, climb aboard, and get ready for our winery tour...
"Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks."
-Ernest Hemingway
One of the extraordinary tropical fruit wines produced at Shannonvale Tropical Fruit Winery, near Port Douglas.Your hosts, Tony and Trudie Woodall.SHANNONVALE TROPICAL FRUIT WINERY
417 Shannonvale Road, Mossman
Phone (07) 4098 4000 / Fax (07) 4098 4100

www.shannonvalewine.com.au

No this does not mean they are sweet and sticky!

"Many people ask us how we can make dry wines from sweet fruits like Mango and Lychee" winemaker Tony Woodall says, "But grapes are the sweetest of all fruits. Grapes have the highest sugar level of any fruit."

Tony and Trudie run a boutique winery, which means that they grow the fruit, make the wine, bottle and label the wines on the farm. Amongst their range, Shannonvale winery boasts (27-4-2007) 3 Gold medal winners, 2 Silver and 4 Bronze. You can sample 5 Dry wines, 2 Medium wines, 2 not so sweet Dessert wines, and 5 Ports. Tony and Trudie have established that people enjoy having a wine actually tasting of the fruit that it is made from, so they make single-fruit wines, not blends.

Shannonvale's fruit is grown in the organic way; no chemicals are used on the fruit trees. Phone for days open.

De Brueys Boutique Wines offer a variety of tropical fruit wines, produced from fresh fruit from their own orchards and other locally grown tropical fruits.De Brueys Boutique Wines offer a variety of tropical fruit wines, produced from fresh fruit from their own orchards and other locally grown tropical fruits.DE BRUEYS BOUTIQUE WINES
189 Fichera Road, Mareeba
(only 2km from the Highway)
Phone / Fax (07) 4092 4515

www.debrueys.com.au

Email, phone/fax, and mail orders welcome!

Try... and buy mango wine at de Brueys Boutique Wines. And there's more - lychee, jaboticaba, passionfruit and native bush cherry wines. Try the brand new Flagship Coffee Elixir - it's a winner! Fruit ports include mango, mulberry and award winning Swagman Port. Be tempted by the new cream liqueurs - Tropical Temptation, Strawberry Temptation and award winning Coffee Temptation.

The winery and cellar door nestles between mango orchards and open forest bushland, so typical of the Australian bush. Winemaker Bob de Brueys and Elaine will make you welcome - self drive tourists, locals, groups and bus tours, etc.

Travelling towards Mareeba from Cairns along the Kennedy Highway, turn left at Mareeba's outskirts into Tinaroo Creek Road, then almost immediately right at Fichera Road. Opening for light refreshments by year's end

Fully loaded banana trees at Mount Uncle distillery, just south of Mareeba, on the Atherton Tablelands.Customers enjoying the free tastings at Mt. Uncle distillery, just south of Mareeba, on the Cairns Highlands.MOUNT UNCLE DISTILLERY
1819 Chewko Road, Walkamin
Phone (07) 4086 8008 / Fax (07) 4093 3716

www.mtuncle.com

PERFECT. BEAUTIFUL. NATURAL.

Established by Mt. Uncle Grazing Co. at the turn of the 21st Century, the distillery has slowly & surely built an impeccable & incomparable reputation for crafting fine, award winning liqueurs.

Mt. Uncle Distillery prides itself on producing 100% natural, pure and preservative free liqueurs that capture the true essence and life of the fruit… just as nature intended. Standing high and above in a synthetically dominated world, the only distillery in FNQ uses a natural, tried and proven method of traditional distilling

Pacific Blue Winery is located 110 kilometres north of Townsville and 220 kilometres south of Cairns, in the country township of Ingham.Pacific Blue Winery's 'Lychee Rush'. This wine opens with the exotic fragrance of mouth watering Lychee and blossoms into delicate hints of honeysuckle and pear.PACIFIC BLUE WINERY
Ingham
Phone (07) 4776 6374 / Fax (07) 4776 6375

www.pacificbluewine.com.au

Using exotic fruits such as mango, sapote, red grape, passion fruit, lychee, wild lime, cumquat and grapefruit, Pat O'Brien and Rhonda Foster have been able to create their own selection of quality table wines designed to enhance your meal and to make it simply perfect.
The quality of Pacific Blue Wine has been recognized both on a local and a national level. Their impressive list of awards are as impressive as their wines, commencing in 2002 with the 'champion wines' and 'champion wine maker's' awards for their rosella wine, red grape, passion fruit dry, lychee, lychee liqueur.

GOLDEN PRIDE WINES
227 Bilwon Road, Mareeba
Phone (07) 4093 2750 / Fax (07) 4093 2668
Located just outside Mareeba, Golden Drop is the brand name for a versatile range of still and sparkling white wines with extremely delicate fruity flavours produced from the sweet flesh of the Kensington Red by Golden Pride Wineries.

MURDERING POINT WINERY
161 Murdering Point Road, Silkwood East, via Innisfail
Phone (07) 4065 2327 / Fax (07) 4065 2247
Murdering Point Winery has focused on creating a range of unique wines through the use of traditional wine making methods and modern technology. Visitors to the winery will enjoy free tastings of the wines and learn the history of the region.

VISIT CAIRNS TROPICAL WINES
Pitaya, also known as dragonfruit, adds an interesting flavour to any tropical fruit wine.

Which tropical fruits do North Queensland winemakers use?
(click on each name for more details) Acerola
Araca
Banana
Black Sapote
Bush Cherry
Caimito
Carambola
Grapefruit
Ginger
Jackfruit
Jaboticaba
Kaffir Lime
Lemon
Lychee
Mango
Mulberry
Orange
Passionfruit
Pawpaw
Pitaya
Plantain
Rambutan
Strawberry
Water Cherry

Carambola is one ingredient used to produce delicious fruit wines in Tropical North Queensland. Mango is a very popular fruit in Far North Queensland and is a fantastic ingredient when making tropical fruit wines.