1) Get your event tickets.

2) Book your accommodation. Hot tip: All buses on the loop start and stop at the Stanthorpe Visitor Information Centre, so booking near here can be an advantage – VIEW NEARBY ACCOMMODATION. Altneratively join the buses at one of the venues.

3) Join the Grazing the Granite Belt Facebook Group to stay in the loop with announcements about the event (such as the release of menus).

4) Keep an eye out in your email inbox about 1 week before the event as that’s when we’ll be emailing ticket holders the bus loop timetable.

Menus and Timetables will also be published HERE

5) Save or Print the Bus Timetable It’s helpful during the event to have the bus timetable with you. Print it out or save a copy to your device.

6) To plan or not to plan. Once menus and bus timetables are available, it’s your choice whether to take to the bus timetable with a highlighter and mark out which venues you will do and in what order… OR if you’re inclined to just go with the flow on the day with no plan that can be just as fun!

Tip: It’s not really possible to experience all venues in one day (expect to visit to 4-5).

7) In Stanthorpe collect your Grazing Voucher booklet at one of these 2 locations:

Queensland College of Wine Tourism: 22 Caves Road, Stanthorpe.
Stanthorpe Visitor Information Centre: 28 Leslie Parade, Stanthorpe.


8) On Saturday arrive outside the Stanthorpe Visitor Information Centre and be seated on a bus ready to depart 10am (arrive earlier to exchange your ticket for vouchers).

If your accommodation is elsewhere along the bus route you may choose to join the buses at another location (if this is the case please be sure to pick up your voucher book on Friday afternoon).

9) At the venues order a grazing dish from the menu (paying with your voucher book). While you wait for your meal you may choose to use that time to do a wine tasting (wine tastings often have a fee of $5 to $10, though some cellar doors have free wine tasting if you make wine bottle purchase, so check at the cellar doors on arrival).

If you happen to use all your vouchers extra meals/drinks can be purchased along the way.

There’s no need to take your bottle purchases with you, just take the receipt for now. Jump back on the bus to head to your next stop.

10) Close to 5pm all buses end back at the Stanthorpe Visitor Information Centre.

11) Between 8am – 9am pick up your wines/beers in the park next to the Stanthorpe Visitor Information Centre. Here the winemakers and brewers will be there to meet you with your wine purchases (they’ll be marked with your name, but it’s handy to bring your receipts too).

12) Claim your brunch on Sunday using your ticket voucher. Claim your voucher at any one of the Grazing event cafe venues.

13) For the rest of your day you may choose to head out to any of the venues you missed the day before and use up any vouchers you may not have used.