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

Paradise Winery's 'Tropical White', a blend of Banana, Coconut, Pineapple and Mangosteen - the queen of tropical fruits!The pride of Paradise Winery, 'Rainforest Red', 'Rainforest White', 'Tropical Red', and 'Paradise Gold'.Paradise Winery's 'Tropical Red', a blend of Banana, Red Mango and Dragon fruit (Pitaya) combined with tantalising vanilla oak characters to produce a unique wine that has soft delicate flavours and fine tannins.PARADISE ESTATE WINES
6-3 Dewar Street, Mission Beach
Phone (07) 4088 6888 / Fax (07) 4088 6889
After hours Phone/Fax (07) 4068 7535

www.paradisewines.com.au

Paradise Wines is Australias first and largest winery to specialise in gourmet banana wine. Paradise Wines has blended its banana table wine with tropical fruits grown from the region to create a range of wines that have a richness, texture and style of their own.

Their cellar door is under the same roof as their tanks, pumps and bottling line so that you can see a working winery while you tease your tastebuds with the range of tropical wines. Give yourself a relaxing break and let the team at Paradise Estate Wines indulge you with a remarkable experience full of surprises, fun and friendship.

Just some of Murdering Point Winery's range; 'Red Emperor', 'Panama Gold', 'Supherb', and their famous 'Black Devil' port.Murdering Point Winery's 'Red Emperor'. Available in Dry or Sweet.MURDERING POINT WINERY
161 Murdering Point Road, Silkwood East, via Innisfail
Phone (07) 4065 2327 / Fax (07) 4065 2247

www.murderingpointwinery.com.au

Open 7 days from 10.00am to 6.00pm!

Murdering Point Winery is an award-winning winery producing a unique range of exotic tropical wines. Along with wines produced from tropical fruits such as lychee, mango and passionfruit, Murdering Point Winery produces wines of outstanding quality from Australian Bush Tucker fruits such as the Davidson Plum, and the native berry, Lemon Aspen. Murdering Point Winery is also home to "The Point" port and the Black Devil, a unique blend of black sapote and cognac.

Owned and operated by the Berryman family, 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 while relaxing in the unpretentious surroundings of the cellar door and the beautiful tropical landscaped gardens.

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.

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.

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.

Dreamtime Wines can be ordered from their online e-store and delivered right to your door.DREAMTIME WINES
Shop7 Traders Lane,
117 Anderson Street, Manunda, Cairns
Phone (07) 4053 6444 / Fax (07) 4032 1113

www.dreamtimewines.com

Catering to Wholesale, Retail, and custom order clients!

Rather than just make fruit wines or the traditional grape wines, Dreamtime Wines blend fruits with grapes to produce a Nouveau style wine which can be enjoyed in its youth, or can be cellared to extract further complexity with age. Dreamtime Wines are available in Dry, Sweet, and Port styles and include flavours such as Mango, Lychee, Passionfruit, Chilli Lime , and Kiwi Fruit. They also have been known on occasion to do limited runs of Black Walnut Wine, Black Sapote, Citrus, and Ginger Wines. Dreamtime Wines also produce regular stock house wines like Dry White, Dry Red, and the summer party favourite, Sangria.

Dreamtime Wines can custom design Personalised Wine Labels for Birthdays, Anniversaries, Weddings and other Secial Occasions. What better gift to give your client than one of their personalised labelled wines with your corporate logo and personalised message?

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.

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.