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Kangaroo Island Food & Wine

Kangaroo Island is fostering a thriving food and wine industry with a growing number of local producers, cellar doors and restaurants offering a taste of nature’s products at their best.


A few things to put on your plate!

On Kangaroo Island you can enjoy premium foods including sheep’s milk cheeses at Island Pure Sheep Dairy, where you’ll be able to see the sheep being milked, taste and purchase the delicious Mediterranean style cheeses, as well as yoghurt, ricotta and the famous haloumi cheese.

You’ll also find some of the largest producers of organic honey in the world on Kangaroo Island.  Our famous honey is made from the famous Ligurian Bee, imported from Italy in 1884 and still the only pure strain of bee in the world.  Kangaroo Island was declared a bee sanctuary in 1885.

Kangaroo Island is well known for great fresh fish such as snapper and King George whiting, lobster and crab and as well as fresh water crayfish called ‘marron’. Oysters are now grown on Kangaroo Island and are some of the best oysters you will ever taste.

High quality Kangaroo Island lamb is produced from leaner, low stress lambs and is proving popular on tables and in restaurants not only across Kangaroo Island but on the mainland as well. Kangaroo Island cafes and restaurants always serve local ingredients and produce and you’ll receive a big, warm, country welcome.

And a glass of wine with that?

Kangaroo Island is an official wine region of Australia and today there are over 30 growers, 200 hectares of wines and 18 labels. 

There are some distinctly different cellar doors to visit as well.  Why not visit the vineyards of Frenchman Jacques Lurton at Islander Estate Vineyards, sample not only the wines but the stunning view at Bay of Shoals (near Kingscote) Wines and enjoy the stunning views over the bay.

You’ll be able to enjoy a tasty platter with your wine tasting at Sunset Winery (just outside Penneshaw), with their absolutely amazing sunset views over Eastern Cove. Must be how they got their name!

Two cellar doors in Penneshaw to visit are False Cape Wines at Sorrento’s Restaurant at the Kangaroo Island Seafront Resort and Dudley Wines Cellar Door, right on the corner of the main street. 

Chapman River Wines on the Dudley Peninsula is unique.  This converted aircraft hangar (with its own airstrip), offers a family-friendly cellar door experience with art gallery, nearby pristine Antechamber Bay beach, nearby, playground and beautiful surrounding landscape.

Another cellar door to keep your eye out for is Two Wheeler Creek Wines.  You will find their cellar door at the Andermel Marron Farm and Café so you can ‘kill two birds with one stone’ by having a marron and seafood lunch whilst enjoying some of their wines.

You’ll find another cellar door at Emu Ridge Eucalyptus Distillery.  Rookery Wines are located here so why not take a tour of the distillery and top it off with a wine tasting!

And for something different, visit Kangaroo Island Spirits, just out of Kingscote and try their honey and delicious flavoured liqueurs including honey and walnut, lime and ginger and anisette.  This is an intimate and worthwhile cellar door experience.