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夢幻之旅
作者：by Fiona Rotherham
You know it’s time to go home when you can’t face eating or drinking anymore.
I reached that stage by the end of my visit to the northeast corner of Australia’s most southern state after being 1）wined and dined in style.
As the Tasmanians say， you can wine your way around this island. Its 2）burgeoning wine sector has seven distinct growing areas with many growers providing 3）cellar door tastings， and there’s an abundance of fresh local food on offer from producers and at farmers markets.
I based myself in Launceston， where the South and North Esk rivers meet to form the wider Tamar River. Like Wellington and Auckland， Launceston has more than a light-hearted 4）rivalry going on with the state’s biggest city， Hobart， to the south.
My plan was to do the Tamar Valley wine route and cherry-pick parts of the Cradle to Coast Tasting Trail.
The Tamar Valley is Tasmania’s largest wine-producing area， best known for cool-climate wines such as sparkling， 5）aromatic whites and 6）pinot noir.
The well-marked route 7）encompasses both sides of the Tamar River and south of Launceston. While the 442 metre-long Batman Bridge spanning the Tamar to the north means you can do a round trip， you really need more than one day to do the route justice.
Our first wine-tasting on the northeast side was at Jansz Tasmania， the only Tasmanian specialist solely devoted to sparkling winemaking.
Wine writers will laugh at my discomfort with spitting instead of sipping during a tasting， but it seems such a waste of good wine to see it dribbling down the 8）spittoons. Be aware， you can get lighthearted early in the day if you don’t. It wasn’t unpleasant.
Eating or drinking lavender may seem odd to some， but the Bridestowe Lavender Estate at Nabowla offers more than just a 9）vista of sweeping fields of purple flowers. It is one of the world’s largest commercial lavender farms， and the high quality flowers are primarily used as oil for perfumery.
It took its Sydney-based owners Robert Ravens and his wife， Jennifer， a few years to turn around the loss-making estate through a relentless marketing strategy focused on Asia. Its renowned lavender heat pack bears—sold for A$55 each—have proved a big hit with Asian tourists since a Chinese pop star 10）proclaimed her love for them on social media.