150 years ago the soils around Mount Alexander and Castlemaine in Victoria yielded the richest deposits of alluvial gold the world has ever known.

Today this intense concentration of gold can now be found in the quality local wines and specialty foods flavours and experiences to die for. Pure, sweet goats cheese milk that produces tasty, silky cheeses, slowly ripened Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz producing complex balanced award winning wines, natural honeys, apple ciders, hand made chocolates, delicious apples, cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines, plums and raspberries, and much, much more.

You will be surprised at how many hidden treasures are waiting for you to discover off the beaten track, and just over an hour from Melbourne.