5 unique experiences around Stanthorpe.

The Granite Belt Maze offers an amazing experience, where each customer has to solve their own unique riddle, while navigating their way through the maze.

These riddles don’t help you find your way, instead they make you search every part of the maze from start to finish, and actually get you lost. Then there’s another maze with a different type of challenge for you to solve and a hexagonal maze with obstacles.

There’s a fairly challenging nine hole mini golf course, and a giant chess set to play on. Around the grounds are some great photo opportunities, with a guillotine, stocks and a giant chair. They have a well stocked kiosk with pies, sausage rolls, ice creams and drinks, sandwiches, hot dogs, fish and chips and snack foods.

How to get here: 364 Old Warwick Road, Glen Niven. Travel north from Stanthorpe along the New England Highway, or south from Warwick.

Food and wine lovers will delight in Queensland College of Wine Tourism’s ‘Winemaker for a Weekend’ program, where two glorious days are spent in Queensland’s premier wine region experiencing the wine making process, hands-on, interspersed with informative master classes and a sensational food and wine experience.

From hand picking the grapes, to crushing and pressing process, preparation, fermentation and the inoculation of the juice, participants discover so much more about ‘the finer things in life’ as they participate in the production of their very own wine.

With many indulgences in between, including delightful lunches and incredible banquet style evening meal with matching wines, guests are assured of a wonderful weekend to remember. As the bottling and labelling process awaits later in the season, guests are invited to return for an additional weekend to take part in the exciting finale, be part of an expert food and wine matching masterclass as well as a professional wine masterclass and take home a half case of their very own wine, complete with customised label!

Dates: 20-21 February and 27-28 March 2021. (Places fill fast so it’s best to book soon!)

How to get there: QCWT is just outside Stanthorpe at 22 Caves Road. You’ll want somewhere close to rest your head for a few nights so for accommodation options click here.

Visit Stanthorpe’s Truffle Centre to taste the rare and highly valuable French Black Perigord Truffle. This gourmet delight is often heard of in culinary circles but in commercial farming areas it suddenly becomes very secretive due to security and bio-security reasons.

The Truffle Discovery Centre unearths all that is truffles with talks, information, products and tastings, gourmet product range and interactive exhibits.

Next to the centre is the Law Dogs Australia show site where truffle detection dogs Conan and Dizzy can be seen in action doing demonstrations, open during school holidays and on long weekends. Booking required.

Location: 335 Church Rd Stanthorpe. (Pictured: Matt, Stacey and Dizzy. Truffle Oil.)