The Inaugural Melbourne Tea Festival | Win a double pass!

Tea lovers will soon be able to spend the day exploring and tasting a range of specialty loose leaf teas under one roof at the inaugural Melbourne Tea Festival on Sunday, 29 May 2016.

Held in the heart of the city at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf, the event will feature Australia’s most exciting and creative specialty tea purveyors from Melbourne and beyond.

Visitors can wander the tea market and taste some of the best artisanal teas around with their porcelain tasting cup in hand, buy teaware, accessories and hand-crafted homewares, or join a tea workshop. Food trucks and boutique food stalls will offer sweet and savoury treats, with some making tea inspired creations for the day.

Festival-goers can expect an interactive tea performance from Yuka Mikayama, a performer from the Osaka and Melbourne underground scene. Her modern Japanese tea ceremony performances are described as 'a liberated taste of tea infused with the Melbourne underground’.

The Melbourne Tea Festival also features a series of six curated tea workshops. This year’s line-up has been announced, with tea-enthusiasts able to buy tickets via the festival website.
Workshops include:

Blending herbal tisanes
Explore tea essentials
Tea and food pairing
Tea leaf reading
Discover Oolong tea
Bespoke chai blending

Date: Sunday, 29 May 2016
Time: 9.00am – 4.00pm
Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre 2 Clarendon Street, South Wharf (Exhibition Building Doors 1 and 2)
Tickets: Pre-sale $12 / Door sale $15 / Workshops $20 - $44 / Includes festival tasting cup
Find out more: www.melbourneteafestival.com.au

Giveaway: Win a double pass!

Gastrology have teamed up with Melbourne Tea Festival to giveaway a double pass to the event.

How to enter

All you have to do, is:

Send us an email answering “How do you enjoy tea?”

The best entry, as judged by the Gastrology team, will each win a double pass to Melbourne Tea Festival .

The competition will run from now to 5:00pm Thursday 19 May 2016 (winner to be announced on this post on Friday 20 May 2016).

The fine print:
Only entries made using a valid email address are eligible. Your email address will not be published. This competition is a game is of skill not chance. This giveaway is open to readers in Australia only. Prize is not transferable or exchangeable or redeemable for cash. The Promoter is not responsible for prizes once they have been dispatched to the winner. The image of the prize is purely representative and the actual prize is subject to change.