Healesville Sanctuary is indulging once again in our fabulous Wine and Wildlife Weekend, Queens Birthday long weekend 11, 12 and 13 June 2011.

Enjoy the amazing combination of wildlife experiences with the tastes of the Yarra Valley. Healesville Sanctuary, Sanctuary Harvest Café, De Bortoli Yarra Valley Estate and Napoleone & Co Cider Yarra Valley have come together to create a gourmet experience with a difference.

It's the opportunity to indulge in some great local food brought to you by the Sanctuary's own Harvest Cafe (Healesville Hotel) with indigenous flavours as well as wine, cheese and cider tastings against the backdrop of the Sanctuary's rustic pavilions with roaring open fires. Plus, you can feast your eyes on some amazing Australian wildlife and experience the new Spirits of the Sky flight spectacular.

What's on the menu?
Warming winter minestrone soup with a parmesan and ground bush tomato crostini complimented by tastings of a fabulous range of De Bortoli wines and Yarra Valley Dairy Juno - a goats cheese marinated in olive oil with Juniper Berries, herbs and garlic. 

Local free-range pork slow roasted over hot coals in a crusty bread roll with Sanctuary Harvest's very own apple & muntrie berry chutney complimented by tastings of Napoleone & Co Cider Apple and Pear cider.