Cheesemaking with Woodside Cheese Wrights at the WEA

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Cheesemaking with Woodside Cheese Wrights at the WEA

Food and Wine Tours
10 min guests
24 max guests

Highlights

  • Create your own Feta cheese under the guidance of passionate cheesemaker Mitchell Lloyd in the Adelaide Hills.
  • Sample five exquisite Woodside cheeses paired with a delightful glass of local wine for a true taste experience.
  • Craft a personalised marinated jar using goat feta and fresh herbs to take home, adding a unique touch to your pantry.
  • Enjoy a hands-on cheesemaking session at Woodside Cheese Wrights, where tradition meets quality in every bite.

This home cheesemaking and tasting session is brought to you by passionate cheese maker and foodie, Mitchell Lloyd Artisan and Manager of Woodside Cheese Wrights in the Adelaide Hills.

Each student will make their own Feta cheese, having the process explained step by step, and given instructions of what to do and how to care for the cheese until ready to eat.

Mitchell will also demonstrate how to make an Halloumi cheese, plus you will get to sample 5 Woodside cheeses and be provided with goat feta and various herbs and spices to create your own marinated jar to take home.

Cheese tastings will be accompanied with a delicious glass of wine.

Established in 1994, Woodside Cheese Wrights is a family owned and operated artisan cheese factory based in the Adelaide Hills that produces an original range of Australian cheeses using the highest quality South Australian cow and goat milk from small neighbouring herds.

All of their cheeses are made by hand to recipes that have been developed and refined over two decades to express the flavour and seasonality of the high quality milk received.

Tour details

  • Food and Wine Tours
  • Half Day or Less
  • Small Group Tour
  • Single
    Available from 28 March 2026
  • Single
    Available from 2 May 2026

Features

Service facilities

  • Carpark
  • Non Smoking
  • Public Toilet
Accessibility

Actively welcomes people with access needs.

General access

  • Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.

Physical – Mobility

  • Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)

  • Seating in common areas including reception area

Physical – Wheelchair

  • Caters for people who use a wheelchair.

  • Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
  • A doorbell or intercom at an accessible height and display a contact number (accessible height is 900mm-1100 mm)
  • A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
  • Step free access to the conference or function room
  • Lifts with enough space for people using a mobility aid to enter and turn around to use the lift buttons. Buttons are at accessible height.
  • An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
  • A wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room is available.
  • At least one wheelchair accessible parking space with wheelchair accessible signage clearly displayed (International standards are 3200mm wide x 2500 mm high).

Operation information

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