All that is Quintessentially
Tasmanian
Tasmanian
Tasmania has a reputation as a gourmet’s paradise. Tasmania’s clean surrounding waters, cool climate, fresh air, pure water sources and fertile soil help produce an array of produce with a rich and strong taste, texture and flavour.
Our climatic conditions produce products with better tasting and unique flavour profiles due to the slower ripening periods and later seasons, which mean there are higher fruit intensities which produce better taste and colour.
As an island Tasmania is afforded a natural cachet. It is quarantined from many forms of pollution and from a number of pests and diseases that affect plants and animals in other regions.
Tasmania’s produce is fuelled by air streams traveling over cleansing oceans stretching beyond Tasmania to South America, Antarctica and Africa. Between Tasmania and these continents there is little else.
Our produce bragging rights include:-
Our climatic conditions produce products with better tasting and unique flavour profiles due to the slower ripening periods and later seasons, which mean there are higher fruit intensities which produce better taste and colour.
As an island Tasmania is afforded a natural cachet. It is quarantined from many forms of pollution and from a number of pests and diseases that affect plants and animals in other regions.
Tasmania’s produce is fuelled by air streams traveling over cleansing oceans stretching beyond Tasmania to South America, Antarctica and Africa. Between Tasmania and these continents there is little else.
Our produce bragging rights include:-
Ø The only state in Australia free of the pervasive Mediterranean fruit fly.
Ø The only state in Australia with a moratorium on the use of gene technology in the commercial production of food, crops and livestock.
Ø The only state in Australia where the use of hormone and growth promotants is banned in the cattle industry.
Ø There are 8 sheep to every person in Tasmania and even the lambs under 1 year old outnumber humans 2 to 1.
Ø Our Atlantic Salmon is the only farmed salmon in the world that does not require chemical treatment after harvest to remove impurities.
Ø The only state in Australia able to supply ocean trout 12 months of the year.
Ø Our oyster growers were the first in Australia able to meet the stringent US import requirements.
Ø We are the world’s largest supplier of wild abalone, producing 25% of the total global wild catch.
Ø In 2007 a study across 40 of the world’s best restaurants concluded that the Southern Rock Lobster (Crayfish) is the best eating lobster in the world.
Ø Laboratory analysis has established that many of Tasmania’s bottled waters have a mineral content that is 400 times purer than recommended by the World Health Organisation.
Ø A Tasmanian dairy product has been awarded Australia’s Grand Champion Cheese in the annual Australian Grand Dairy Awards every year since the awards began in 1999.
Ø In the 2007 World Whisky Awards held in the United Kingdom, a Tasmanian Single Malt Whisky was awarded 1st and 2nd “Best Whisky from the rest of the World” in the “Malt Whiskies from the Rest of the World” category.
Ø In an Australian brewing first, a Tasmanian beer was awarded a Crystal Prestige award at the 2007 Monde Selection in Brussels – the world’s most renowned beer awards. The Crystal Prestige award is awarded to brands that have won gold medals during ten consecutive years at the Monde Selection. The Monde Selection recognizes both the quality of the ingredients as well as brewing processes and techniques.
Ø In 2008 a Tasmanian Camembert was named world’s best in its class at the 2008 World Championship Cheese Contest, in the same year it was named Grand Champion Cheese at the Australian Grand Dairy Awards.
Ø In 2008 a Tasmanian Sauvignon Blanc was named best in the world in the Decanter International Wine Challenge.
Ø In the 2009 World Whisky Awards held in the United Kingdom, a Tasmanian Single Malt Whisky was awarded “Best other Single Malt Whisky – No age from the rest of the World” in the “Malt Whiskies from the Rest of the World” category.
Ø In 2009 a Tasmanian mussel producer became the first shellfish company in the world to win international Friend of the Sea endorsement for its sustainable practices.
Ø The state is Australia’s biggest producer of potatoes and apples and grows nearly 10% of all the nation’s vegetable exports.
Ø Tasmania produces more than 90% of Australia’s processed vegetables.
Ø Tasmania produces half of the world’s legal opium poppy crop.
Ø Tasmania produces more revenue from seafood than any other Australian State.
Ø Tasmania is the only place in the world that produces the famed Leatherwood Honey, produced from the blossom of the Leatherwood tree that only exists in the rainforests of Tasmania.
Ø Tasmania is the only place in the world that commercially harvests wallaby.
Ø Tasmania is the birthplace of Cadbury Chocolates.
Ø Tasmania is the home of Australia’s oldest brewery and the last remaining commercial brewery in Australia that malts its own barley.
Ø Tasmania produces around 80% of Australia’s hops.
With so many accolades across diverse industry sectors one must agree that we have certainly been smiled upon by the food gods.
Contact Us
Tasmanian Providore
17 McIntyre Street
Mornington
Tasmania Australia 7018
Phone +61 3 62451611
Fax +61 3 62451766
Sales@tasmanianprovidore.com
Tasmanian Providore
17 McIntyre Street
Mornington
Tasmania Australia 7018
Phone +61 3 62451611
Fax +61 3 62451766
Sales@tasmanianprovidore.com