Sydney
Convict-era pubs, working-class brewing precincts, and the Hunter Valley a comfortable bus-ride away. Sydney is our flagship region and where it all started.
The country's youngest scene, in the country's most surprising city. Tropical-fruit wine, sugar-cane spirits, and beer brewed for 35°C drinking weather.
Our Darwin crew is two locals who moved up from Brisbane in 2021 and convinced us to start running tours from the Top End. The scene is the youngest in our network — and growing fast.
We run two tours, both in the dry season (May through October). The wet season is too hot for daytime tasting, so we close the operation each November and reopen each April.
Darwin Brewery Walk. Two breweries on foot in central Darwin, both founded post-2018, both leaning into tropical-friendly low-ABV pale ales designed for 35°C drinking weather. Plus a stop at a small mead and tropical-fruit-wine producer that doesn’t have a cellar door anywhere else in the country.
Top End Distillery & Sunset. A drive out to a small distillery on the Stuart Highway, a tasting flight of small-batch gin and rum, and a sunset at Mindil Beach. The most-photographed tour our network runs.
Darwin’s wet season (November–April) hits 35°C with 90% humidity. Daytime tasting rooms aren’t air-conditioned to that standard. Our local crew also takes the wet season off to do scuba dive trips in Indonesia, which seems fair.
A lot of guests pair Canberra with Sydney or the Hunter. We co-ordinate the booking across the network.
Convict-era pubs, working-class brewing precincts, and the Hunter Valley a comfortable bus-ride away. Sydney is our flagship region and where it all started.
Craft beer in industrial Brunswick, pinot noir in the Yarra, gin on the Mornington — Melbourne's drinks scene rewards the curious traveller more than any other city.
More distilleries per square kilometre than any city on earth — and a food and beer scene to match. Tasmania is the under-rated drinks destination of the country.
Most public tours sell out 2 to 3 weeks ahead in summer and over Floriade. Lock yours in — or get a quote for a private charter built around your group.