Make a date for Food Week
Orange Food Week (www.orangefoodweek.com.au) will take place in Orange between 9 and 18 April, a week or so after Easter. There will be a night market on Friday 9 April and an all-day “Food Affair” on Sunday 18 April, at which a variety of Orange regional food and wine producers will have stalls.
Moody’s Wines will be open on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 April to offer a plate of Mediterranean snacks and a glass (or two) of wine, in the relaxed surroundings of the verandah looking out over Emu Swamp.
Come up to Orange, and combine a weekend of wine tasting at neighbouring vineyards – Mayfield, Sharpes and Indigo Ridge with a snack at Moody’s, and a visit to “Food Affair” on Sunday.
UNSW students visit Moody’s
UNSW in the vineyard
Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of NSW, Danielle Drozdzewski, brought 15 geography students to Moody’s, to talk about the role of tourism in the Orange wine industry, and to get an introduction to growing grapes and making wine. We gave them some lunch, a taste of wine and gallons of orange juice – the temperature was hitting 37º.
A lot of penetrating questions – particularly about water supplies, after they had seen the low level of Suma Park.
