DISCOVER NEW SOUTH WALES’ DELECTABLE FOOD & WINE

The food and wine culture found in New South Wales is one of the most exciting of any in the world. The State’s vast diversity of microclimates enables it to produce a huge variety of high quality raw materials, including stone fruits, olives, fungi, cheeses, seafood, truffles, meats, nuts, grains, game and tropical fruits. Add creative chefs eager to experiment plus the cross fertilisation of tastes, ingredients and styles derived from a population that comes from all corners of the planet and you have a daring and original food and wine culture.


Last night DNSW hosted their very own pop-up bar on their stand to reflect the ever-expanding Sydney small bar scene. Bulletin Place Wine Bar is one of the latest to join Sydney’s small-bar elite. Behind the bar is Tim Phillips, who brought home the Diageo Reserve World Class Global Bartender of the Year from Rio de Janeiro in 2012. Elsewhere in the city, Jason Scott and Anton Forte, the bar wizards behind Sydney’s acclaimed Shady Pines Saloon and Baxter Inn, have scored again with Frankie’s Pizza, a supercool Hunter Street retro bar that takes its design cues from Italian kitsch.

Escape the city and explore one of NSW’s 14 wine regions. From the iconic Hunter Valley, home to more than 120 wineries and just a two-hour drive from Sydney, to the 60-plus vineyards of the Southern Highlands and their cool-climate varieties, to the inland towns of Mudgee and Orange, there is never a shortage of good wine and food in NSW.

A variety of NSW produce will be showcased on the DNSW stand this year at ATE including Opera Kitchen, Baroque Café, Legendary Pacific Coast Food Trail items, Nicks Restaurant Group, Small Acres Pomme Cyder from Orange, Audrey Wilkinson Shiraz from Hunter Valley, A. Retief Cabernets from Hilltops, Swinging Bridge Sauvignon Blanc from Orange, De Iuliis Verdelho from Hunter Valley, Murray’s Angry Man Pale Ale from Port Stephens.

To read more about the food and wine regions of NSW and Sydney’s bar and dining scene, please visit the Destination NSW website.