Food lovers are invited to feast their senses in North East Victoria alongside the region's top producers, chefs, winemakers and craft brewers at HIGH COUNTRY HARVEST (16 – 25 May) this autumn. Get up close and personal with a program of 40 events over 10 days, as you celebrate the High Country's autumn goodness amid landscapes of harvest-hued valleys, rising mountains and wide open skies. The full program is ON SALE NOW.

Join beekeepers to inspect their hives and harvest honey in a secret beekeeping forest, or learn to make sweet Italian cannoli from scratch from a nonna-in-the-know; feast and dance bonfire-side before camping out beneath a full autumn moon, or learn the lost art of packing a horse (only this time, with Prosecco!) before a ride to the riverbanks for local bubbles and cheese.

Tourism North East CEO Sara Quon commented on the curated program:

High Country Harvest events range from picnics and bonfires under big autumn skies, to bike and horseback rides en route to High Country feasts, to hands-on classes on North East specialties such as craft brewing, venison jerky and CWA classics.

In celebration of High Country Harvest, foodies will have the chance to WIN dinner for two at all nine of the region's The Age Good Food Guide-scored restaurants. The delicious prize is dinner for two to the value of $150 at each of the following renowned High Country restaurants (total prize value $1,350): Provenance (Beechworth), Simone's Restaurant (Bright), Terrace Restaurant at All Saints Estate (Wahgunyah), Tani Eat & Drink (Bright), Alfresco Dining at Boynton's Feathertop Winery (Porepunkah), Thirteen Steps (Bright), Patricia's Table at Brown Brothers Vineyard (Milawa), The Stanley (Stanley) and The Plough Inn (Tarrawingee). The winner can choose to dine out indulgently for nine days in a row, or return throughout the North East's ever-changing seasons to savour their prize. Competition entry is viawww.highcountryharvest.com.au, closing 5.00pm on Thursday 29 May.

Started in 2012, High Country Harvest was created with the support of Tourism Victoria.

Taking place in spectacular settings right across North East Victoria, including:
Beechworth, Benalla, Bright & Surrounds, Glenrowan, Falls Creek, Glenrowan, King Valley, Milawa Gourmet Region, Mansfield & Surrounds, Rutherglen, Tallangatta & Wangaratta.

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