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<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\nEmbrace the warmer weather this February with a morning horse ride, lazy long lunch, chocolate or wine tasting, film under the stars or an afternoon of live music. Or why not make a weekend of it at one of the festival’s accommodation providers before finishing it off with a degustation dining experience?<\/p>\n
Meet the locals during Summerside Festival when East Hotel once again plays host to a number of local wineries. Every Friday evening during February, a handful of the regions finest wineries will head to Kingston to peddle their wares the old fashioned way – taste and talk.<\/p>\n
Make the most of the beautiful summer mornings and balmy summer evenings with a horse ride through the trails at Burnelee Excursions on Horseback during the festival. Explore a beautiful grazing property on horseback and, on twilight rides, relax back at Burnelee with a tasting of Poachers Pantry’s award-winning smoked meats, accompanied by a sample of Eden Road Wines.<\/p>\n
Try your hand at wine and cheese matching with Janet Gavey from The Essential Ingredient explaining cheese-making techniques and Jim Lumbers, owner of Lerida Estate, discussing Lerida’s winemaking styles and techniques and which wines he considers a suitable match for the respective cheeses.<\/p>\n
Embark on a ‘Journey of Flavours’ at the Poachers Pantry Degustation Dinner on 7 February. The Deconstructed Degustation is a sensational food and wine experience in four distinct chapters starting at Lennox Gardens before moving out to the Wily Trout vineyard and Poachers Pantry Smokehouse.<\/p>\n
The Summerside Festival is presented by the members of The Poacher’s Way, which brings together a collection of local artists, chefs, winemakers, accommodation hosts who each have a fascinating story to tell and a wonderful product to share. www.thepoachersway.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n Traveloscopy<\/a> | <\/span> The annual Summerside Festival is shaping up to be wonderful example of the Canberra region’s rich food and wine offering with a calendar full of summer-themed events. Celebrating everything good about summer in the region, this month-long festival from Saturday 31 January to Sunday 1 March is full of dining events celebrating local and seasonal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/div>\n<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"