Tassie Tips: Tasting Trail Tasmania

Taste Your Way Through North West Tasmania: Discover the Tasting Trail

If you love good food, local produce and meeting the people who make it, put the Tasting Trail Tasmania on your North West Tasmania itinerary.

Stretching across more than 200 kilometres of Tasmania's North West, the Tasting Trail is a self-drive food and drink adventure connecting visitors with farm gates, cellar doors, breweries, distilleries and local producers. It runs from around Deloraine and the Meander Valley through the North West, with the trail extending west towards Stanley and Smithton.

And the best part? There's no need to rush.

You can pick a few favourite stops for a day trip, follow one of the suggested mini trails, or build your own foodie road trip and spend a few days exploring the region.

Stay in Ulverstone

BIG4 Tassie Getaway Parks Ulverstone is right by the beach and makes a great base for exploring the central North West. After a day following the Tasting Trail, come back to the park, kick off your shoes and settle into a relaxed evening. With the beach nearby and Fairway Park next door, there's plenty to keep the family happy too.

Or head west to Stanley

For a completely different experience, make BIG4 Tassie Getaway Parks Stanley your base.

Stay beneath The Nut, enjoy views across Tatlows Beach and keep an eye out for the little penguins along the waterfront. From Stanley, you can combine your Tasting Trail adventures with some of the North West's most spectacular coastal scenery. And that's really what makes this region special.

You can spend the morning tasting local produce and the afternoon walking on a wild beach.

Around Ulverstone

• Take a drive to Tasmanian Pickled Onions 15-minute drive south of Ulverstone. See onion production first-hand from the purpose-built café and shop, Windows on Westella. Serving magnificent breakfasts and generous lunch options, the café is fully licensed and offers tastings of their own Broad Acres Vineyard wines.
• Just ten minutes from Penguin, Mount Gnomon Farm rests against the Dial Range. Savour a cider crafted from the heritage apple orchard, and relish in delectable offerings straight from the garden and farm. From Wednesday to Friday, curate your own platter or picnic featuring homemade free-range charcuterie, pickled garden vegetables, and local cheese. On weekends, indulge in a complete lunch service.
• Taste Penguin Beer Co.’s locally brewed beers, and dine in from lunch until dinner six days a week. The tap house features a deck overlooking the beautiful beach, from which you can relax and experience a tasting paddle of signature brews. Weekly entertainment, live music and events are also features of the Penguin Beer Co. experience.

• Complete the loop back to Ulverstone for a night at Island State Brewing - The Pier, a European Bier Hall in Ulverstone. Enjoy a huge variety of freshly brewed beers whilst taking in the view of the Dial Ranges, where the Leven River meets Bass Strait.
  

Plan your next road trip now with BIG4 Tassie Getaway Parks Ulverstone as your base.

On the way to Stanley

• Continue east to Burnie’s Communion Brewery for a late lunch (or second lunch – it’s TrailGraze, after all) alongside complimentary tastings of fresh hop ale and f-price beer paddles.

• Keep driving to find happy hour at Hellyers Road Distillery, where even the designated driver can indulge responsibly with a range of low-alcohol cocktails developed especially for the TrailGraze touring experience.
  

• Stay at BIG4 Tassie Getaway Parks Stanley and check out the Stanley portion of the Tasting Trail.
  

On the way to Launceston

Here are three must-visit locations between Launceston and Ulverstone.

• Turners Beach Berry Patch

  Turners Beach Berry Patch café specialises in real fruit ice creams, wood-fired pizza and quality Tasmanian ingredients.
  

• A short 15 minutes down the road to Devonport will have you at Southern Wild Distillery. The Distillery bases its three Dasher + Fisher gins on the landscape and ingredients that are found in the local area. Drop in to experience the tasting room, and visit the bar for a cocktail using a range of spirits and liqueurs made on-site.
• Ashgrove Cheese

  Tasmania’s most indulgent cheese experience and must-see visitor centre. Conveniently located on the tourist route between Launceston and Ulverstone, the Ashgrove Dairy Door has something for every cheese-lover.