Monday, February 20, 2012

Food and Wine Are the Life of Gourmet Tasmania


Tasmania is an island located off the east side of Australia renowned for its rich soil, clear blue water, delicious food and exotic wines. Besides being known for the aforementioned, Tasmania has an established industrial market that is known for providing premium products such as ocean trout, oysters, scallops and abalone. Once you have sampled the gourmet food that is available in Tasmania, you will discover why people flock to the island every year.

Gourmet food is dependent on the local produce, thanks to the favorable climate that the island faces. If you are visiting the island for the first time, you will be treated to home-grown products such as crisp apples, prime cheeses, berries, herbs, stone fruits, mushrooms and cool wines from the fresh grapes grown locally. If you have children, they will enjoy the handmade smooth fudge and chocolate plus ice cream stuffed with healthy organic sweet berries.

Aside from the agricultural foods, Tasmania is well-known for a wide variety of high quality fresh sea food. Being an isolated Island with stringent regulation, you will not have to worry about unhygienic environment. Some of the well known gourmet Tasmania sea foods are crayfish, crabs, tuna, trumpeter, Atlantic salmon and scallops which live around the clean waters of the island. The salmon for example, is the world's only farmed fish which does not use any chemicals to enhance its growth.

Basically Tasmania is all about food and wines. In the island, you will have the pleasure of meeting renowned wine makers and chefs. Locally made wines are made from the handpicked summer berries which gives the drink an overall distinctive taste. Many of the gourmet foods are produced locally on the island. Sea food is fished from the surrounding water, the wine making berries are hand picked from the orchards and the vegetables are grown in rich volcanic soil.

The island of Tasmania is a heaven for loves of food and wine, which is a good reason to celebrate. The locals have festivals such as Taste of Tasmania and the Taste of Huon, where they celebrate the varieties of different foods and wines that are available in the area.The Taste of Tasmania, which is held every year in January, is a food lovers mecca, as it brings together the absolute best that Tasmania has to offer in gourmet food and wines.The Taste, is its known locally, is a showcase of local gourmet Tasmanian food and wine producers and manufactures, which gets food critics and gourmet food lovers, raving about the delicious food this is available under one roof.




For more information visit Gourmet Tasmania.

Stephen Tracey is a freelance writer and IT consultant, based in Tasmania.
For more information visit Gourmet Tasmania




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