This category was as hotly contested as The Bachelor with votes being counted beneath sweaty brows before we finally crowned a winner. The Tamar River links Launceston to the Bass Strait, and along this 70km stretch lays the Tamar Valley, home to some of Australia’s best wine producers (Tamar Ridge, Jansz, Josef Chromy to name a few) and a plethora of fine food as fresh as the ocean air that comes roaring up from the coast.
Daytrip out of Launceston and fill your belly along the way to the sea: stop at Hillwood Berry Farm to pick some fresh strawberries, fill up on a tasty range of yoghurts and cheeses from Meander Valley Dairy, pause at one of the wineries for a crisp white then head towards the coast for seafood so fresh it’s still flapping from George Town Seafoods.
Runners-up: Best Food Region
2. Margaret River, WA
3. Yarra Valley, Vic
4. McLaren Vale, SA
5. Central West NSW
Thanks goodness that pulp mill never got built in our valley.THIS is what we are really about – well done all!
It’s a great place to live. You can do business here and there is so much to do and see.
This is so encouraging!
We, here at the West Tamar Chamber of Commerce have known this for years. A dedicated band of people have been working and supporting each other to help realize the incredible potential this place is capable of.
Yet there is so much more that can be done when we become aware of our even greater collective potential when we work together.
C’MON people! shout it out from the rooftops.
Wonderful place to live or visit. I love going to my local vineyards, having a glass or two of the lovely cool climate wines whilst enjoying a platter of great local products and enjoying the views of rolling hills and/or the ever changing Tamar. So glad the pulp mill did not eventuate as it would have ruined the valley.