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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.

There are dozens of fabulous experiences in the Adelaide Hills from 1-31 May 2025 for Chardonnay-lovers. Here are just a few to book now.

Does your Mum live or near in the Mudgee wine region or it's one of her favourite places to visit? 

Here's 10 Mudgee region Mothers Day gift ideas.

Does your Mum live or near in the Yarra Valley wine region or it's one of her favourite places to visit? 

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

Does your Mum live near Launceston or in the surrounding Tamar Valley or perhaps she's planning a trip there soon? 

Here's 10 Tamar Valley region gift ideas she might enjoy.

There are dozens of fabulous food and wine experiences to be had at this year's Barossa Vintage Festival from 23-27 April 2025. Here's just some of what's on offer.

Does your Mum live in Rutherglen or in the surrounding areas or perhaps she's planning a trip there soon? 

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

Join a ladies day out in McLaren Vale on 3 May, exploring Willunga Farmers Market in a guided tour, a fermenting workshop food, and wines from Oliver’s Taranga, shopping in Willunga, coffee at Willa and visiting cellar door Ortus. 

The 34th annual Orange FOOD Week 2025 is running Friday, 28 March-Sunday, 6 April 2025, offering a diverse array of events that celebrate the region's rich culinary heritage.

If you'd like to taste unlimited top-rated wines, graze on premium canapes, cheese, crackers and charcuterie and buy wine direct from the winery, book the Brisbane and/or Melbourne Annual Top-Rated Wine Tasting events hosted by Halliday Wine Companion.

There is a wealth of wonderful winery experiences in the Rutherglen region this year at the annual Tastes of Rutherglen event starting on Friday 7 March through to Sunday 9 March 2025. Check them out here!

Meet the talented winemakers behind some of Australia's best wine labels at The Drop In: Bubbles Edition on Friday 7 February 2025 at the National Wine Centre in Adelaide.

We're delighted to launch our range of A3 and A4 watercolour-illustrated maps of Australia's top 15 wine regions and top three tourist destinations.

One of the biggest crowd event favourites (literally) of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, will take place on Friday 21 March 2025 at Kings Domain, Melbourne. 

Designed by internationally acclaimed chef Curtis Stone, The World's Longest Lunch will feature a three-course meal prepared by Curtis Stone Events, the festival’s new catering partner.

The SummerVines Festival from 17-27 January 2025 in the McLaren Vale wine region, offers a diverse lineup of events celebrating the area's wine, food, and coastal lifestyle. Here’s some events you can look forward to:

If you haven't begun your Christmas shopping, you'll need to do your online research within the next two weeks or risk disappointment. Australia Post has been struggling with the rocketing growth in online orders and educating retailers to set earlier cut-off ordering dates for customers' pre-Christmas deliveries.