Heritage Wines of Stanthorpe

WHITES | Chardonnay, Fiano, Frizzante, Frontignac, Marsanne, Pecorino, Muscat, Pinot Gris, Riesling, Savagnin, Sparkling Chardonnay, Verdelho, Vermentino, Viogner.
REDS | Cabernet, Merlot, Muscat, Nero D’Avola, Rosé Cabernet, Grapello Maesri, Sagrantino, Sangiovese, Sparkling Grapello, Shiraz Mourvèdre Grenache, Shiraz Viognier, Mourvèdre, Tempranillo.

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Two hours drive from Brisbane to the top of the Granite Belt is this European-inspired retreat, with 30 acres of gardens, lawns, a vineyard and a winery. Heritage Estate cellar door has an extensive range of wines and liqueurs grown and made on the estate.

For more information visit: https://heritageestate.wine/food/

Hours

7days 10am–4pm

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Food and wine are at the heart of the Heritage experience, with immersive dining created by fine-dining Chef Blake and designed around the wines, vineyards and changing seasons of the Granite Belt. Dinner dining experiences: selected Fridays and Saturdays; bookings essential.

Vine + Dine Journey Lunch
A relaxed yet refined five-dish lunch matched with seven Heritage wines, with each pairing introduced at the table. Guests can explore the working winery and vineyard, meet the people behind the wines and take in views across the vines and rose gardens. The menu changes seasonally and may feature premium Queensland seafood, local produce and Granite Belt ingredients.

Fireside Friday
Friday evenings are made for roaring fires, candlelight, museum wines and beautifully prepared food. Fireside Friday is a more relaxed way to experience Heritage, with Chef Blake creating generous tapas-style dishes designed for sharing alongside a selection of current and aged wines. Set beneath the soaring ceilings of the cellar door, it is intimate, warm and distinctly Granite Belt.

Earth, Wine & Fire Progressive Dinner
This immersive progressive dinner moves through the estate, beginning among the vines before continuing to the grand cellar door and working winery, and finishing with dessert in the atmospheric Barrel Room. Guests travel into the vineyard, taste wines alongside the places where they are grown, meet the vignerons and experience the connection between soil, season, food and wine.
Expect fire, candlelight, vineyard sunsets, soaring ceilings, the scent of roses and the heady aroma of oak barrels and maturing wine. Each course is paired with Heritage wines and interpreted through the landscape in which they were created.

5-Senses Degustation – Black Tie Dinner
Held on the second Saturday of each month, the 5-Senses Degustation is Heritage’s most theatrical dining experience.
Guests are seated around the extraordinary 17-seat rosewood and leather Executive Council table, with an evening designed to engage sight, sound, scent, taste and touch.
Chef Blake presents an eight-course fine-dining degustation matched with up to 12 Heritage wines, including museum releases. The evening may include flambé and smoked dishes, interactive wine blending, the aromas of the 54-piece Le Nez du Vin collection, a sommelier sensory kit, candlelight, silver and linen, live string music and photography.
It is fine dining with a sense of theatre, built around one idea: experiencing wine not simply in the glass, but through food, people and place.

Across all of Heritage’s dining experiences, the food is created to complement the wines rather than compete with them. Guests may encounter Queensland seafood, premium beef and lamb, artisan cheeses, seasonal vegetables and elegant desserts, with pairings selected to showcase both current-release and museum wines.

The cellar door itself forms part of the experience, overlooking vineyards and rose gardens, with soaring ceilings, open fires and the working winery just beyond.

Heritage’s approach is immersive and personal: meet the winemaker and viticulturist, taste wines beside the vines, walk through the winery, dine beside the fire and finish an evening beneath the extraordinarily clear Granite Belt night sky.

Cuisine

Contemporary Australian, Fine Dining, Wine-Paired Degustation, Tapas, Seasonal Local Produce

Hours

Fri–Sun 10am–4pm

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Heritage Estate accommodates 3 couples, with views of the stunning surrounding landscape. Each room a king or queen bed and other little luxuries such as the local newspaper. Throughout the property, you’ll find an eclectic collection of artworks and antiques.

Disconnect from reality, and reconnect with nature or your own mob of kangaroos and a resident koala. Completely off-grid, Vinewood Chalet is detox territory. A private place to rest, relax and refresh and is the epitome of privacy and luxury, with an outdoor Sauna. The two spacious bedrooms with king-size beds have granite ensuites, full granite kitchen and 2 lounge rooms, with spectacular vineyard views, and flanked by an apple orchard and backed by rainforest. Ideal for a group of friends or a family getaway, you will never want to leave.

Step back in time to 1864. The Winery Cedar Cottage is a beautiful three-room cottage that is completely lined with cedar so that you can smell the ambience as it would have been last century for their forefathers. Snuggle up on the leather lounge in front of the fire. All creature comforts are here, kitchenette, modern, marble bathroom with clawfoot bath and picture windows to view the forest from the bathtub, and your bedroom that looks out over the gardens. The original owner of this beautiful cedar lined cottage would have counted blessings. It contains a private bathroom, one Queen bed, and complimentary wine included.

Arrive from 12pm to enjoy lunch at the winery with the Chefs tasting menu accompanied by matched wines (Thu-Mon, optional extra).

Details are correct at time of writing

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Distribution Information

Cellar doors and online

Stockist

The Australian Club, Tattersalls, Queensland Club