Granite Belt

Meadery

Mount Stirling Meadery

Beekeeper-run meadery on Queensland's Granite Belt, making mead from their own hives using pure rainwater. The range runs from traditional and barrel-aged styles to a manuka, an apricot melomel, a braggot, and a super-hot chilli metheglin. Visits by arrangement — check social channels for tasting times.

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Art of Krupinski

Artur and Natalia Krupinski honeymooned in France, fell for the generational vineyard idea, and spent seven years working up to buying an established Granite Belt property in 2022. Saturdays at the cellar door on Mount Stirling Road, you can taste the wines alongside fresh pierogi — cheese and potato, pork and cabbage, or blueberry — and a Hungarian-style goulash.

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Flame Hill Vineyard Fletcher

Halfway between Stanthorpe and Ballandean on the New England Highway, Flame Hill's Severn River cellar door pours estate-grown wines from the Granite Belt's Kurrajong and Severn River vineyards — all hand-picked, all from their own vines. Open Friday to Sunday; no appointment needed.

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Ravens Croft Wines

Twelve kilometres west of Stanthorpe at 950 metres above sea level, Ravenscroft sits among the Granite Belt's highest vineyards. The range is worth attention: Vermentino and skin-contact Fiano sit alongside Montepulciano and a Reserve Pinotage, with wilder expressions like Cherry Bomb and Wolf Boy Chardonnay rounding out the cellar door lineup. Reservations required.

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Tobin Wines

On Ricca Road in Ballandean, Tobin Wines keeps its cellar door open seven days — longer hours Thursday through Saturday. The wines are small-batch and site-specific, shaped by the Granite Belt's high altitude and granite soils. It's a straightforward operation: grow, make, pour. The landscape does most of the talking.

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Mountview Wines Camping and Accommodation

Vines first went in here in 1921, on land granted to a returned WW1 soldier named Shaw. The cellar door dates to 1985 and still operates out of that original residence on Emu Swamp Road. Sandy pours the tastings; the Bloody Good Red — a house blend — is the one most people leave with. Camping on-site.

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Kominos Wines

Family-run winery producing high-altitude Granite Belt wines with a focus on hands-on craftsmanship. Open daily for cellar door tastings and sales, with the acclaimed Kefi event featuring Greek cuisine and dancing.

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Girraween Estate

Boutique winery situated near Girraween National Park in the Granite Belt, offering a scenic setting amidst the region's distinctive granite landscape and proximity to excellent bushwalking and natural attractions.

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Pyramids Road Wines

Husband-and-wife winery crafting cool-climate wines on the Granite Belt for over 20 years. Hand-made small batch wines available at the historic cellar door where visitors can meet the winemaker.

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Twisted Gum Wines

Tim and Michelle Coelli live on-site seven days a week, farming a single vineyard on free-draining granite soil in the Granite Belt. Regenerative viticulture informs everything from vine to bottle. The cellar door sits among the vines — stop in for single-vineyard whites and reds shaped by altitude and mountain climate.

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Savina Lane Wines

Snow visits occasionally. The Granite Belt's altitude gives Savina Lane its character — and its range: Fiano, Manseng, Viognier, Montepulciano, Tempranillo, Graciano, plus Shiraz from 70-year-old vines. Tastings run one-on-one with the owner, from a 90-minute introduction to a two-hour varietal deep-dive. The trophy shelf is quietly convincing.

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Bent Road Winery & Distillery

Forty hectares of granite and river frontage at 750 metres shapes what comes out of the glass here. Three labels do different work: La Petite Mort runs extended skin-contact wines using ancestral methods; Wilhelm Scream is for drinking without deliberation. The distillery runs a Bill Lark-designed 500-litre hybrid pot still, currently producing gins and cane-based spirits, with rum, brandy and whisky to follow.

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Just Red Wines

New Zealand transplants Nathan Grayson and Luke Jordan took over this estate-grown red wine operation in early 2026, inheriting vines on a Ballandean property with roots going back to 1935. No insecticides, fungicide use kept low through variety selection. The cellar door — walk-ins welcome — is staffed by six goats named Patch, Cocoa, Sooty, Sox, Red, and Snow, who hold court on the granite outcrops out front.

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Heritage Wines of Stanthorpe, Estate Winery, Restaurant

Cottonvale's Heritage Estate holds five consecutive James Halliday five-star ratings — top 8% nationally — with nine submitted wines scoring above 89 points. The Shiraz, Fiano, and Tempranillo are the flagships; a 2023 Marsanne fermented spontaneously at four degrees is the curveball. Cellar door, restaurant, and accommodation on site.

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Heritage Estate Wines

Queensland's highest-rated small winery holds five consecutive James Halliday five-star ratings — top 8% in Australia. The Granite Belt operation produces Shiraz, Fiano, Marsanne and Tempranillo, including a 2023 Marsanne wild-fermented at four degrees. Cellar door, lunch, dinner and accommodation on site.

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Dear Vincent Wines

New Granite Belt producer making Pinot Gris, Viognier, Shiraz Viognier, and a Field Blend Pet Nat. The cellar door runs daily through winter, weekends otherwise — or catch the wines at the Ballandean Pub (ask for Adam). Unhurried, unpretentious, with the kind of range that suggests a winery still figuring out what it wants to be, in the best way.

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Symphony Hill Wines

Elissa's walk to the top of the hill — and her subsequent "Julie Andrews moment" — gave the winery its name. Ewen and the team have spent 25 years making the case for the Granite Belt, working from one of its highest vineyards. The Reserve Shiraz and a Cabernet harvested in May, a full month behind Clare Valley, are the argument.

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Symphony Hill NSW

Ewen and Elissa's vineyard sits at the Granite Belt's highest point — cool enough that their Cabernet Sauvignon isn't ready until early May, a full month behind Clare Valley. The altitude shapes everything, including a Reserve Shiraz that doesn't resemble any other Australian example. A family operation still learning out loud, two and a half decades in.

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Golden Grove Estate

Family-owned winery in Ballandean operated by third-generation winemaker Raymond Costanzo, specialising in alternative grape varieties known locally as 'Strange Bird' wines. Cellar door tastings and historic farmhouse accommodation available.

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Conrad Distillery

At 925 metres in Queensland's Granite Belt, Master Distiller Debra Spence converts rescued Australian wine into gin, vodka and liqueurs using Irish triple-pot distillation — each batch resting 30 days between runs. Only the heart cut makes the bottle. The altitude and the method both do their work.

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Ballandean Estate Wines

Salvatore Cardillo left Sicily in 1911, worked Queensland's railways, then bought a Ballandean farm in 1930. His daughter Josephine started making wine from the estate's table grapes in 1932. Three generations later, Angelo and Mary Puglisi replanted with wine varieties in the late 1960s — among the first on the Granite Belt — and opened the cellar door in 1972. The Opera Block Shiraz, now past its 50th vintage, is the benchmark.

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Ridgemill Estate

A Brisbane project manager bought this Severnlea vineyard seven days after first seeing it — naming it over G&Ts in Singapore with a designer friend. That origin story tracks with the estate's instincts: Spanish founders planted alternative varieties here in 1998, and winemaker Peter McGlashan, on board since 2004, has kept pushing the same brief. Cellar door daily; overnight cabins on site.

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Robert Channon Wines

Acclaimed as Australia's foremost Verdelho producer and "King of the Verdelho" by wine critics, this 4½ star Halliday-rated winery creates award-winning estate-grown wines in Queensland's cool, high-altitude Granite Belt region. Their exceptional wines have earned Australia-wide trophies and were even selected to be served to Queen Elizabeth II.

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Banca Ridge Winery

Located in Queensland's Granite Belt, this winery operates as Varias, a venue where experiences, food, wine, learning, and culture converge. They feature handcrafted wines from across the region and offer intimate dining, events, and celebrations among the vines while honoring local makers and growers.

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Balancing Heart Vineyard

Located in Queensland's elevated Granite Belt wine region, this organic winery crafts contemporary wines including Vermentino, Pinot Grigio, and Lagrein from soil formed over 250 million years. They offer cellar door tastings, authentic vineyard experiences, and host live music events with their Hearts & Minds Wine Club providing member perks.

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Whiskey Gully Wines

Thorndale Ridge Chardonnay vines climb the slopes above the Severn River Valley, where Whiskey Gully runs both a winery and a set of bush cottages on a granite-country property with long views to the mountains. The wine and the accommodation share the same address — useful if you're planning to linger.

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Summit Estate Wines

Twenty-five years of weddings, a cellar door called La Cave, gourmet pizzas and grazing boards from Kitchen 925, and Friday-Saturday Sunset Sessions that end around a campfire. Summit Estate does a lot, but the Granite Belt altitude keeps the wines honest — award-winning and worth the detour to Thulimbah.

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Hidden Creek Winery

At 900 metres above sea level, Ballandean's Hidden Creek sits in Queensland's coldest wine country, where granite soils and bitter winters push Mediterranean varieties — Syrah chief among them — toward something genuinely taut. Master of Wine Andrew Corrigan runs a tight operation: estate-grown, small-batch, appointment-only cellar door. Jancis Robinson called the 2021 Syrah "salty, fresh and smooth textured." Hard to argue.

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Castle Glen Australia

Queensland's first whiskey producer operates out of The Summit with a catalogue that runs to more than 300 products — single malt whiskeys aged up to 12 years, a full spectrum of fruit wines, and liqueurs that veer from Lemoncello Creme to Dark Chocolate Chilli. The range is absurd in the best sense: there's a mead, a cactus spirit, and a musk stick spritz.

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Severn Brae Estate

Severnlea's most eclectic cellar door pours table wines, sparkling, fortified varieties, and honey meads alongside a trading-post assortment of Sanelli knives from Italy, hand-tooled leather goods, woodwork, and gourmet sauces. The range is genuinely strange in the best way — few wine stops also stock Italian cowbells.