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Bicheno’s favourite beachside bash is back! On Saturday 15 November 2025 from 11am-6pm, the Bicheno Food & Wine Festival turns this seaside town into a tasting playground where Tasmania’s east coast meets your appetite.

From 14–16 November 2025, the King Valley La Dolce Vita Festival turns this wine region into a slice of northern Italy—complete with Prosecco, handmade pasta, and the kind of vineyard hospitality that makes you forget what “Monday” means.

Is one of your favourite pastimes attending gourmet food and wine weekends? Plan ahead with your friends and family to attend one of the dozens of memorable food and wine festivals across Australia from November 2025 through to May 2026 in our calendar of events for the next six months.

Meet the winemakers, vignerons, local sommeliers and restauranteurs and discover why Australia's highest wine region is truly "A Drop Above" at the Orange Wine Festival from 17 October-2 November 2025.

Love great wine? Love your dog even more? Then leash up and get ready for the inaugural Woof & Wine Walk in the heart of Coonawarra on Saturday 11 October from 10.30am-4pm – a one-of-a-kind cellar door trail designed especially for wine lovers and their furry companions. You and your pup can stroll between six dog-friendly wineries, soak up the region’s charm, enjoy delicious food and wine, and take part in tail-wagging activities along the way. 

As one of Victoria’s famous wine regions within an hours' drive from Melbourne, the Yarra Valley is dotted with wineries that let you skip the reluctant drive back for sunset strolls or sleep-in among the vines instead. So, pack a bag. Leave space for wine, too. Whether you’re planning a romantic weekend, a group getaway, or just an excuse to wake up with vineyard views, here are 11 Yarra Valley wineries with accommodation to consider.

Make plans for the Shedfest Yarra Valley Wine Festival. From Saturday 11-Sunday 12 October 2025 you'll enjoy two days of wine tasting, live music, lawn games, and mouth-watering menus across 13 incredible boutique wineries. 

The Makers of Murrumbateman Moving Feast is an immersive feast of new culinary experiences. Spend your weekend, from 4–5 October, roving from maker to maker, indulging in delicious food and wine, and taking in the beautiful countryside along the way, with savoury dishes $30 per person and dessert $25 each. 

Over 50 free and ticketed tastings and events are happening across October, the Coonawarra Cabernet Celebrations is definitely the place to discover why Coonawarra is regarded as Australia’s premier Cabernet Sauvignon producing region!

After a lot of reflection and planning, Australian Map Gifts has closed its retail side of the website and is concentrating fully on its wholesale business to help support Australian tourism.

Spring in Clare Valley means one thing: lamb! Make plans for the Clare Valley Festival of the Lamb from 17–21 September 2025. 

Did you know Mudgee's Food & Wine Month was established in 1979, making it one of the oldest wine festivals on the Australian gourmet calendar. Here's some of the tasty treats to book this September!

If you're a retailer, did you know that Australian Map Gifts is now available on Faire, the leading online wholesale marketplace connecting retailers with unique, independent brands.

Celebrating its 13th year, the Capricorn Food & Wine Festival returns bigger and better with various signature event lineups from 4-7 September 2025. Featuring masterclasses, cocktail parties, cooking demonstrations and more.

Get ready for a magical weekend as the Wine & Wildlife at Healesville Sanctuary returns from 30-31 August 2025. It's a timeout in nature—with wine in one hand, and the other petting a koala or two…maybe.

The McLaren Vale Grenache & Gourmet Festival is truly the unforgettable way to start your spring—from Friday 19 September to Monday 6 October.

The Moreton Bay Food + Wine Festival from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 August 2025 is under two weeks away, and tickets are selling fast. 60+ Exhibitors. 20+ wineries. 30+ ticketed add-on events.

If you love exploring Australia through its food and wine, our brand-new Australian Food & Wine Festivals Calendar is your essential guide to delicious adventures.

If your Australian winery, hotel or local attraction is helping to host or is participating in a food & wine festival in 2025, let us know! Add your special event or special offer to our blog , which has regularly been featuring the details on Australian food and wine festivals to help support and promote local tourism since 2023, and/or to our monthly newsletter.

Warm up this winter with a variety of events in the Geelong & the Bellarine Peninsula wine region at its annual Geelong Winter Shiraz Festival, 1-3 August, 2025.

Australian Map Gifts is exhibiting at the annual Reed Gift Fair at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Southbank, 2-6 August 2025. The biggest gift trade show in Australia which occurs before Christmas, it's your opportunity to discover cool new products for your customers.

Palatable Tea Towels has now relaunched as Australian Map Gifts! Our new website and name - Australian Map Gifts - makes it easier to discover our full collection of illustrated map gifts, not just the seven wine region map tea towels we launched with in July 2022.

Margaret River's annual Cabin Fever Festival from 18-27 July 2025 is fast selling out! There are a huge range of events to tempt you to explore the Margaret River and Busselton area. Here's just some of the 45 events to hurry up and book.

Need an excuse to plan a long weekend away somewhere in Australia? Here's over 100 fabulous wine festival events happening in not only the best-known wine regions, but also those that are a little off the beaten track, or that are happening in cities and metropolitan areas in 2025.

One of the most popular festivals each year is Roam Rutherglen's Winery Walkabout, happening over the Kings Birthday Weekend, 7-8 June 2025 with 16 wineries participating both days from 10.00am-4.00pm.

When you're attending food and wine festivals, you really want accommodation close to the vineyards. If you're visiting the Rutherglen wine region, here's 22 accommodation properties close to, within, or beside their vineyards.

Does your Mum live in the Hunter Valley region or perhaps she's planning a trip to the Lovedale, Broke or Pokolbin areas soon? 

Here's 10 Hunter Valley region Mothers Day gift ideas she might enjoy.

Does your Mum live in the Clare Valley or it's one of her favourite places to visit? 

Here's 10 Clare Valley region Mothers Day gift ideas.