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We had great fun filming with Mike Whitney and the team from Sydney Weekender once again. The episode is going to air this coming Saturday, 5 April, so be watching at 5.30pm on Channel 7.

The team filmed three of the venues we visit on our Foodie’s Indulgence ‘Tastes of Saddleback’ tour which showcases producers in the Kiama, Jamberoo and Gerringong region. On the day the weather was amazingly great given the serious floods and storms that besieged the South Coast the night before. So on a surprisingly sunny day on our lovely south coast you’ll meet Gerhard from Schottlander’s Wagyu, Kel from The Pines gelato and Kirsten from The Schoolhouse artisan cheese and tea.

The Shoalhaven Coast Winter Wine Festival is just under three months away and this year Foodscape Tours is offering a charter tour as part of the festival fun. Held on the June long weekend we’ve attended the Festival over the past few years and loved the vibe and activity along the Shoalhaven Coast.

So, this year we are keen to be part of it! We are offering a full day transport service on Saturday 7 June and Sunday 8 June with pick-ups (and returns) in Shellharbour, Kiama, Gerringong, Gerroa and Berry. (more…)

Exciting to read this story in today’s Sydney Morning Herald Traveller section, mentioning some of our friends and farms in Jamberoo, Kiama and Gerringong. Our thanks to Kate and the team from Kiama Tourism for organising this media showcase late last year. These are just some of the places we will be visiting on our ‘tastes of Saddleback’ Foodie’s Indulgence tour this year (kicking off in Autumn). Read the story here.

We were chuffed to receive a note from the Mayor of Kiama after he read the story by Sally and Gordon Hammond of website ‘Food and Travel’. Sally and Gordon were part of a media tour late 2013 to check out the foodscape in and around Kiama, Gerringong & Jamberoo.

“I have just read the report on the recent famil tour of our area in ‘Food and Travel’ and of your assistance to the writers. It was a great report. Congratulations on your efforts. I hope all is going well…” Regards, Brian Petschler, Mayor, Kiama Municipal Council.

Pretty cool! Here’s the story and video if you’d like to check it out.

A quick congrats to our friends at Silo’s Estate who now have two of their wines on the list at Australia’s first 6 star property, Wolgan Valley by Emirates. What a great achievement! Very elite company indeed.

Our friends at Coolangatta Estate were recently upgraded to a 5 red star rating by James Halliday in his 2014 wine companion. This rating is described as being “an outstanding winery, regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity.” The Estate is the first Shoalhaven Coast winery to achieve this rating and places them in the top 9% of wineries in his Companion (2500 listed)! Well done!

What a 10th anniversary celebration it was for the Shoalhaven Coast Winter Wine Festival. As we can’t offer our usual tour experience, we took the opportunity to partake in the fun and activities. The places we visited were all pumping with people enjoying the sunshine, the coast, the wines and the atmosphere. Visitation was reported to be the highest ever. If you missed it pencil in the long weekend for next year!