Small Group Exclusive Experience, Manjimup & Pemberton Region
Local Farms, People, Restaurants and Produce
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Small Group Exclusive Experience, Manjimup & Pemberton Region
Local Farms, People, Restaurants and Produce
This tour focuses on meeting the locals who run the farms and vineyards in this area. You’ll hear stories about their families, their land, and their amazing produce. Guests will learn about and taste the local wine in very unique ways, like dinner cooked by a well known, local winemaker at their own home or a cheese making and wine pairing event hosted by another amazing local winemaker. You will have exclusive access to areas not normally opened to the public. This behind the scenes access allows for a better understanding of the region that is fast becoming known as the food bowl of WA.
A deposit of $200 pp is due to secure your booking. If the tour proceeds and prior to final payment you change your mind, your deposit will held in suspense for you to use towards another Kings Tour or transferred to another Kings Tour of your choice.
If the tour is cancelled due to COVID, border restrictions or not meeting minimum numbers to proceed, your deposit will be refunded in full. After final payment has been made, if the tour cannot proceed due to the above, the tours will be postponed to when it is safe to travel.
Tours are based on reaching a minimum number. Home pick-up and return is included based on a set radius – surcharges will apply outside these areas. Other special conditions may apply to each individual tour, please contact the office for further details.
Please note that this tour involves walking across some farmland which will be a mixture of terrains and will vary dependant on weather conditions
Your holiday begins when you are picked up from home by a private vehicle. You will be transferred to Kings Park where you will meet your Kings Tour Manager and fellow passengers. We travel to Manjimup, stopping along the way for you to purchase lunch.
Upon arrival at the motel in Manjimup, we meet our local guide, Peter Casonato, who will assist you with your check in. You will have time to settle into your accommodation and freshen up before transferring to your welcome dinner at a local restaurant.
Enjoy a complimentary drink and take this opportunity to get to know your fellow travellers.
Accommodation: Manjimup Motor Inn for 4 nights
The Manjimup Motor Inn is centrally located in town. The hotel is rated 3.5 star and while it doesn’t look flash from the outside, the newly refurbished rooms are a big hit.
After a café breakfast, we head off for a scenic drive to the small timber town of Northcliffe. An earlier start today but it will be a magical day as we discover wildflowers and enjoy a guided nature and art walk in this historic town. We have arranged a private tour and morning tea at Bannister Downs Farm, a family owned, ethically run dairy providing milk to Western Australia. Cows here are treated like family and are milked only 10 metres from the processing facility.
A fish and chip lunch here today with fresh fish from Windy Harbour and then off for a scenic drive through Pemberton and visit a brand new chocolate factory.
A very special evening cruise along the Donnelly River tonight with a gourmet BBQ featuring Marron Entrée and wine tasting from a fabulous local winery. Special guest: local winemaker on board to provide a wine tasting as we cruise down the river.
After our cafe breakfast this morning we will explore the Manjimup area and visit some local farms where you will meet some of the characters that farm the region. You will hear their stories and feel their passion for the area and their produce. Their forward-thinking farming practices will amaze you.
Today our feature lunch is at stunning Fontes Pool. A multi course long lunch with Chef Raj and his team from Cilantros, will be something you will be talking about for years to come.
Dinner tonight will be at the home of one of our favourite local families, the Peos family – farmers and winemakers in Manjimup for more than 90 years. They are also excellent pizza makers.
We commence the day with a fully cooked breakfast before heading out to tour some more countryside and pop into a local strawberry farm. You will not believe how amazing the berries taste straight from the source.
Next, we head to Lost Lake Winery in Pemberton where we will enjoy a cheese making workshop with Australia’s only qualified cheese and wine maker. A light lunch here in this beautiful location followed by a cheese and wine pairing and tasting. Spend some time with Ash to learn about his wines and some other projects going on at the estate. Purchase wines here for our evening farewell dinner.
A short break at the hotel before glamming up for our private, 6 course, dining experience at Two Little Black Birds with Chef Joe Ditri.
After coming from Northcliffe, Joe moved to Perth and was a chef at “Fraser’s Restaurant” in Kings Park for 16 years. During this time Joe was awarded 2 gold medals at the “Restaurant of Champions” and in 2006 was awarded the “Western Australian Young Chef of the Year”. After then spending 3 years as head chef at Brika’s Restaurant in Perth, Joe decided to move back to Manjimup to be closer to family and the fresh produce and food of the area which inspired his original journey.
After a hearty cooked breakfast on the last day, we have time for one last hidden Gem before our time together ends around midday. We travel home to Perth, making a rest stop along the way. Upon arrival in Perth, your driver will be waiting to transfer you home.