Mission Beach is very lucky to have the headquarters and bottling plant of Paradise Estate Wines right here on our doorstep. Only 10 minutes drive from Cassawong Cottages in Mission Beach, is a wonderful wine being nurtured and blended under the careful and expert hands of Mary Lankester, Rural Woman of the Year and founder of the Company in 2000.
Paradise Wines is Australia’s first and largest winery to specialize in gourmet banana wine. A wine that stands alone in its uniqueness.
Paradise Wines has blended its remarkable product, banana table wine with tropical fruits grown from the region to create a range of wines that have a richness, texture and style of their own.
Paradise Wines also have a cellar door and tastings are carried out daily from 10am.
This tropical blend of Banana, Red Mango and Dragon fruit (Pitaya) combines with tantalising vanilla oak characters to produce a unique wine that has soft delicate flavours and fine tannins.
The Dragon fruit contributes its rich colour and its aromatic plummy melon tones to enhance the overall sensory experience.
The palate is supple and fresh with good length and complexity.
Paradise Gold
The subtle nuances that come from making a Banana Wine have combined well with French Oak to create an exciting full-bodied wine with soft floral overtones.
This wine is rich in natural potassium and has a truly unique and refreshing character.
Tropical Decadence
Decadence as its name suggests is over the top and tropical indulgence at it's best.
Be prepared for the explosion of flavours as the enticing sherbet and floral tastes combine to give the drinker an experience to remember. Tropical Decadence is available in 375ml and 750ml bottles.
Tropical Christmas
Combining the rich colour and aromatic plummy melon tones of the Dragon fruit (Pitaya) with Red Mango and Banana captures the essence of an Australian Tropical Christmas.
The delicate indulgence of vanilla oak in this velvety-smooth dessert styled wine will give the drinker the fantasies of a rich Tropical Christmas all year round. Tropical Christmas is available in 375ml and 750ml bottles.
This award winning winery is situated on Murdering Point Road, hence the name, North of Mission Beach at a little village of Silkwood. Travelling from Mission Beach you would take the road North through El Arish to Silkwood and turn right down the road as if to Kurrimine Beach about a 20 minute drive from Cassawong Cottages.
A family owned and operated winemaking enterprise; Murdering Point is a boutique winery, producing a selection of tropical fruit wine, made with a variety of tropical fruit and exotic fruits, located in the wet tropics of North Queensland.
The winemakers of Murdering Point Winery have also created a delicious new port recipe, "the Point" port is now available for purchase at their cellar door.
The Berryman family have been cultivating land in the Silkwood area since 1952. During this time they have produced not only sugar cane but tropical fruits including pineapple, papaw, and passionfruit.
Pinnacle
A beautifully balanced wine, with a distinctive character, Pinnacle has a wonderful passionfruit fragrance and a powerful tropical taste. The intense flavours are cleverly balanced by the natural fruit sweetness resulting in a superb wine ... a wine to die for!!!
Romance
Absolutely breath taking! Murdering Point Winery introduces a wine of exquisite beauty and grace. Lychee fruit is noted as a symbol of romance, and this wine will enhance all romantic experiences. Aromatic lychee and honey flavours, sweet, amazingly spicy and perfectly balanced by crisp acidity and a hint of passion, this is a wine that simply has no peers. This is as good as it gets. One of the most exciting and extraordinary tropical wines ever produced. Like all romantics, it is impossible not to crave for more.
Misty Gem
Misty Gem is created from the native tropical berry: - Lemon Aspen. The fragrance is sheer heaven and the taste is fresh and lively. The flavour has subtle citrus characters and is refreshing and zingy. We bet you can’t stop at one glass!.
Panama Gold
This wine is derived from the golden juices of the king of fruits, the mango. Panama Gold will surprise you with its exciting flavours and distinctive texture. It has a spicy character, great fruit flavours and a subtle complexity that comes from the integrated oak. Gold Medal Quality.
Red Emperor
No other wine will prepare you for the sublime quality of the Red Emperor. It will surprise with its ultimate soft-fruity finesse and tannins that support delicate flavours of the Davidson Plum.
Nothing can restrain the fistfuls of fruit that are crammed into every bottle. It has a sensuous elegance on the palate, and a smooth seductiveness that leads to a lingering finish.
The Point
Murdering Point Winery has created for your pleasure: the Point has a fragrant bouquet of mulberry, citrus and plum. The palate is rich and luscious with a lingering mulberry flavour. It has traces of chocolate and a brandy spirit that balances the powerful, dense palate and leaves a divine aftertaste. The Point is best kept secret for pure self-indulgent pleasure.
The range of wines of Paradise Wines, Mission Beach
Mary Lankester of Paradise Wines inspects a sample.
Mango is always a favourite.
The rare Dragon Fruit offers an exquisite taste.
Another rare tropical fruit is the Persimmon.
The Point wine from Murdering Point Winery.
Murdering Point Winery - the process of creating the perfect exotic fruit wine.
