Designed by Blackbird Bar & Grill Head Chef Jake Nicolson, this menu features produce sourced from the Central Highlands (as highlighted).
CANAPÉS
Wyntoon Radish, whipped butter, and celery salt
Wyntoon Pumpkin Arancini w Provolone cheese and lemon aioli
Red and Golden Wyntoon Beetroot w Sheep’s milk Labneh and Radicle Seeds Puffed Sorghum
ENTRÉE
Slow cooked Andalia Pork Belly & Red Claw
w Capricorn Honey spiced glazed pumpkin, brown butter, and lemon myrtle
Paired w Grace Madeline Sauvignon Blanc | Semillon (V,Bio) Margaret River, WA
MAIN COURSE
Grilled Andalia Rib Fillet
Confit Wyntoon Carrots, braised Silverbeet, broccoli purée and garlic Jus
Paired w 2018 Crawford River Cabernet Sauvignon/Cabernet Franc, Henty VIC
DESSERT
Coconut Sago Pudding
W Costa Group Mandarin, lime, and Radicle Seeds Toasted Grains
Paired w 2021 Cep by Cep Coteaux du Layon Late Harvest Chenin Blanc, FRANCE
Menu
Wyntoon Fresh Produce
Wyntoon Farm Fresh is a side passion, our main living is crop farming.
Our love of growing produce – vegetables, eggs and honey – has been going for many years but, in the past year, we decided we want to share this with the people of the Central Highlands. So, we created Wyntoon Farm Fresh.
Wyntoon Farm Fresh is located on our family property in the Gindie area and it’s a family a air, with everyone pitching in.
In this part of Queensland, fresh produce is seasonal so autumn and winter are our main vegetable growing and fruiting months.
Last year was our first year supplying fresh produce to the community in what we call a “veggie drop” most Saturday mornings. We also do private orders and have supplied a local café and catering business with our beautiful goodies.
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For us it’s the excitement and achievement of watching our vegetables grow and produce beautiful fruit for all to enjoy. The Pukallus Family
Andalia Pastoral
The vision for our life and business is to be working together as a family, successfully regenerating the land that we are custodians of.
We want to love and respect others and live in a way that is respectful to our creator in all aspects of life and business.
We want to grow and expand our business to develop a venture that will continue on after us, creating healthy environments, healthy animals, healthy food and healthy people.
Success to us is to continually be improving personally, improving our land and improving our business. ANDALIAPASTORAL.COM.AU @ANDALIAPASTORAL
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For us personally we wish to spend quality time with our young family, giving them a solid foundation, assisting them in achieving their visions and goals and creating a business that they are proud of and wish to call their own.
For our land we wish to see ecological diversity, increasing our soil carbon our organic matter and the life beneath our feet and in turn our drought resistance. For, our business we wish to increase the diversity in enterprises and resilience through all seasons.
Andrew and Tali Brownlie
Lake Maraboon Red Claw
Sitting down to a meal of freshly caught Red Claw has been a quintessential experience for Central Highlands residents since the crayfish were accidentally introduced into Central Queensland waterways after the establishment of Red Claw farms in the region. They are native to the tropical streams and rivers of the far north but have spread widely throughout southern Queensland.
In addition to Red Claw, the Fairbairn Dam is also stocked with Barramundi, Silver Perch and Golden Perch. All this makes the dam, just 60kms from Emerald, a popular recreational destination for locals and visitors.
Red Claw fishing is an important rite of passage for kids growing up in the Central Highlands as the crustaceans can simply be caught in oval-shaped pots left on the bank or edges of the dam – an enjoyable activity for a day trip or holiday.
This 1.3 million megalitre water source not only provides Central Highlands residents and visitors a place to fish, ski and recreate, but is also the highquality and reliable water supply facilitating irrigated systems that grow much of the region’s grapes, mandarins and cotton.
The Red Claw on the menu is provided by Freshwater Australian Crayfish Traders (FACT) who operate an 80ha property in Tarome and produce up to a million Red Claw Crayfish each year.
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Catching Red Claw adds a sense of adventure to any visit, rewarding to catch, easy to cook, and delicious to eat.
Roger John, CHDC Visitor Economy Coordinator
+896,000 29 44
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Central Highlands has the largest beef herd of all LGA’s in Australia with just over 896,000 cattle grazing on Central Highlands pastures
inland intermodal hubs Smart Farms
CQ Inland Port is one of only three inland intermodal hubs in Queensland
Emerald’s Smart Cropping Centre is one of only two Smart Farms in QLD
Central Highlands is home to Queensland’s largest Mandarin producer
rare or threatened animals
cattle grazing individual creeks
There are 44 rare or threatened animals that can be found in the Central Highlands including koalas, Fitzroy river turtles and the Powerful Owl
The water in the Nogoa River, which feeds into the Fairbairn Dam, comes from 29 individual creeks and rivers across Central Queensland
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Emerald is Queensland’s second-largest inland centre
The Fairbairn Dam can hold up to three times the volume of Sydney Harbour
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Costa Group
Costa is Australia’s leading grower, packer and marketer of fresh fruit and vegetables and the largest citrus grower in Australia. We grow a delicious variety of oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, tangelos, mandarins, and persimmons, supplying Australian and international customers under the Vitor and 2.P.H. brands.
Our mission is to be Australia’s citrus industry leader in scale, quality, innovation, genetics, and service. Our citrus fruit is grown in Emerald in Central Queensland, as well as in the Riverland district in South Australia and the Sunraysia region in Victoria.
At Costa, we are continuously working on finding sustainable ways to produce fresh, healthy food available for everyone by developing a systematic and tailored Sustainable Commercial Farming strategy to progressively improve the yield and quality of our healthy and nutritious produce whilst reducing our environmental impact.
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Our focus is on producing premium fruit for our consumers here in Australia and in our export markets. Through our 2PH farms in Central Queensland, we are setting the standard for world class produce.
We are proud supporters of our local community and celebrate the success of this region.
Costa Group
Capricorn Honey
Capricorn Honey is a small honey business based in Emerald. Owner Steve is a long-time resident of the Central Highlands and worked for 40 years in the Queensland Fire & Rescue Service, with the last 18 years as the Area Commander based in Emerald. As an outdoorsman and nature lover, Steve took up beekeeping after retirement. Steve takes pride in looking after his bees and providing his local honey to the community.
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We take pride in sharing our bees’ honey with the local community.
Steve Murray
Radicle Seeds Australia
Radicle Seeds Australia specialises in breeding exceptional cultivars that meet the needs of growers and end users. A grower-owned company based in the Central Highlands, they are committed to supplying Australian farmers with quality seed and strong varieties with regional adaptation.
Having brought two grain sorghum hybrids to market, Radicle Seeds Australia now has several grain and forage sorghums, white sorghums and highly digestible brown midrib (BMR) corn hybrids for forage and silage in the breeding pipeline for release in the next few years. The genetic material developed by the company also includes numerous unique characteristics from a milling perspective.
Radicle Seeds in association with Southern Cross Agricultural Exports and local growers is a supplier of organic and sustainable heritage wheat varieties such as Foster to the Wholegrain Milling Company. Wholegrain Milling Company stone mills their grain products, which gives artisan bakers and bread lovers an organic wheat flour that has a distinctive taste and superior baking properties.
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Our aim is to produce hybrid seed that ‘really fits’ – meeting the needs of the grower, processor and consumer.
Paul & Cherry Murphy
Beverages
BEER
Corona, Lager
Great Northern, Lager
Heaps Normal, Quiet XPA Pale Ale
Pirate Life, Stout
SPARKLING
NV Quartz Reef Méthode Traditionelle Brut Sparkling, Central Otago NZ
WHITE
2022 Grace Madeline Sauvignon Blanc | Semillon (V,Bio), Margaret River WA
2020 Tapanappa Tiers 1.5m, Adelaide Hills SA
2021 Longview Macclesfield Grüner Veltiner, Adelaide Hills SA
2021 Quartz Reef Pinot Gris, Central Otago NZ
2017 Jim Barry Assyrtiko, Clare Valley SA
2021 Cep by Cep Coteaux du Layon Late Harvest Chenin Blanc, FRANCE
RED
2018 Crawford River Cabernet Sauvignon/Cabernet Franc, Henty VIC
2021 Kalleske Clarry’s Grenache/Shiraz/Mourvedre, Barossa Valley SA
ASSORTMENT OF SOFT DRINKS & SPARKLING WATER
TEA & COFFEE
