Events – Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges
The Yarra Valley is renowned for its food and wine events. The highlight of the calendar is the Yarra Valley Grape Grazing Festival when over 20 wineries host feasts designed by top chefs, accompanied by live music ranging from jazz to Latin and World music and, of course, outstanding Yarra Valley wines.
Music is mixed with fine wine throughout the year – visit Domaine Chandon for Opera in the Vineyard, the Jazz in the Vines Festival at the TarraWarra Winery, or Rochford Wines Summer Music Festival at the Rochford’s Eyton Winery. For great garden events visit the Dandenongs in spring. The Tesselaar’s Tulip Festival in September is a breathtaking display of millions of tulips, freesias and daffodils, and the Rhododendron Festival, held at the National Rhododendron Gardens in Olinda a profusion of rhododendrons, azaleas and camelias
February
- Yarra Valley Grape Grazing Festival, Yarra Valley Wineries – Healesville
- Raspberry Fair – Kinglake
- Marysville Wirreanda Festival – Marysville
- Blue Dandenong’s Young Filmmakers Festival – Belgrave
March
- Longest Lunch, Melbourne Food & Wine Festival – various venues
- NMIT Yarra Valley Cup – Yarra Glen
- Ranges Folk Festival – Olinda
- Scarecrows Picnic – Yarra Valley
April
- Ferny Creek Horticultural Society Autumn Show – Ferny Creek
- Thomas the Tank Engine at Puffing Billy – Belgrave
- Greg Malouf's Arabesque Lunch – Coldstream
- Yarra Valley Railway Festival – Healesville
- Yarra Glen Arts Show – Dixons Creek
May
- Puffing Billy Steam Railway Great Train Race – The Dandenongs
- Kellybrook Cider Festival, Kellybrook Winery – Wonga Park
- Greg Malouf's Arabesque Lunch – Coldstream
- Artists Open Studios – Eltham and surrounding areas
June
- The Yarra Valleys Shortest Lunch – small wineries throughout Yarra Valley
- Seize the Wine Charity Auction, Yering Station – Yering
- Warburton Film Festival – Warburton
- Warburton Winterfest – Warburton
July
- Winter Wine Quest, Rochford’s Eyton – Coldstream
- Emerald Winterfest – Emerald
August
- Spring Floral Display, National Rhododendron Gardens – Olinda
- Celebrate the Pig, Friday Feasts – various venues around Yarra Valley
- Yarra Valley Cellar Doors come to Montsalvat – Eltham
September
- Tesselaar Tulip Festival – Silvan
- Ferny Creek Horticultural Society
- Spring Show – Ferny Creek
- Melba Festival – Healesville
October
- Opera in the Vineyard, Domaine Chandon – Coldstream
- Rhododendron Festival, National Rhododendron Gardens – Olinda
- The Rally of Melbourne, De Bortoli Winery – Dixons Creek
- Thomas the Tank Engine at Puffing Billy – Belgrave
November
- Eltham Festival – Eltham
- Ferny Creek Horticultural Society Flower Festival – Ferny Creek
- Hurstbridge Month of Music – Hurstbridge
- Monbulk Jazz Festival – Monbulk
- Marysville Flower Festival – Marysville
- Artists Open Studios – Eltham and surrounding areas
- Warratina Lavender Harvest Festival – Wandin Yallock
Other events
- Café Concert Series – Marysville
- De Bortoli 'On the Vine' Cooking School, De Bortoli – Dixons Creek (Feb–Nov)
- Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition, Yering Station – Yering (Oct–Dec)
- Rochford Concert Series – Coldstream (Nov–April)
- St Huberts Music in the Vineyard, St Huberts – Coldstream (Nov–Apr)
