$59 for unlimited wine tasting, cheese tasting, plus freebies THIS WEEKEND.
Written by *Matilda Cheshire Journalist/Staff Writer /Posted Thursday 11 june,2026
How to: cheese board
MOULD x Pinot Palooza combine for an epic weekend in Sydney before the produce show travels around Australia.
Complicated finger food cradled in napkins is out and extravagant cheeseboards are in. For $59 you are entitled to unlimited cheese and wine tasting at a Sydney extravaganza celebrating the culinary industry’s two best inventions.
I love hanging out with my friends but why does it cost me time and money. I don’t wanna meet you for dinner cause even on special the steak and chips at the pub is $26 and a glass of red won’t limbo under $13. I don’t want to host a dinner party because the TikTok kitchen cookers have made the standards so high the penne pasta that I feed myself wouldn’t fly.Plus, I’ve been at work all day. I’m exhausted and I’ve got F45 or Hyrox training or some networking coffee meeting early tomorrow morning. I need to be in bed by 9.
So here’s what we’re doing now people. I’m getting my girls around and inviting everyone over for a wine and a nibble.Join me standing around the kitchen island or lounging around on my sofa configuration and associated ottomans. Have a glass of wine and savour it.You’re not here to get drunk but to use the glass more as a prop to share stories of deplorable meetings that could’ve been an email. Engage in some cheese and cracker construction. Perfectly bite-size and tremendously delicious. Come for an hour or two, then buzz back to your beehive for supper. It’s humane for everyone involved.
This weekend is perfect practise, come for a nibble and a sip and arm yourself with produce that’s blows off socks at your next gather round. You can populate an entire charcuterie board at the Hordern Pavillion this weekend. Cold cuts, local honey, crackers and preserves are among some of cheese’s pals that will be present for purchase.
Cheese boards have been having a moment for a few moments now. We’ve developed and matured and so home-brand Brie and Camembert don’t cut the mustard no more.Catering companies will teach you to adorn a brown wooden chopping board with meat folded into roses and halved figs exposing themselves for the display. I even saw a board with edible flowers sprinkled atop but no one wanted to check whether they were in fact edible.
They ended up in the bin.
A damn good cheese is the crux of a good grazing platter—not some fanciful fruit that will be guided around the board with the cheese knife like a puck to a hockey stick.
Which brings me to my next point: Cheese. The likes of Mersey Valley and Meredith Dairy are absolute icons, but they deserve a rest. Your cheese repertoire needs a serious shake-up.
What I really want is a “Discover Weekly” playlist for cheeses—both hard and soft—ready and waiting for me to taste.
Yes, cheese! Yes, please.
At the event, you can pick up cheese that’s been aged to perfection by smiling Aussie cows and sold to you by the craftsmen themselves. More than 50 varieties of Australian artisan cheese will be waiting for your arrival—and your taste buds!
If you find something you love, just pop it into your complimentary cheese cooler bag and drop it off at The Cheese Check (yup, it’s as amazing as it sounds) to collect on your way out. A wise man once said, “Blessed are the cheesemakers.” So, we must receive the blessings they have prepared for us, beautifully wrapped in butcher’s paper.
This weekend, a convoy of cheesemakers is gathering in a cornucopia of all things aged milk.
A ticket for $59 will bestow upon you unlimited cheese tasting—I dare you to find the limit to this. And may all those who are lactose intolerant come well-prepared, bearing Lactaid!
Wine and cheese. Like Barbie and Ken. Batman and Robin. Like Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry. Wait, actually maybe not them.I go for dinner with a friend and we’ve picked the first Sauvignon Blanc on the wine list. We stifle
our grins when the waiter asks who would like to try the wine.Or I’ll be staring at the bottom shelf of the wine rack at Camperdown Cellars with no sense of the good versus the horrible.
Pinot Palooza presents a low-stakes, judgment-free, glass-swirling opportunity to learn about the wines I drink to look mature. And just to prove how low-stakes this actually is, they’ve brought a “stake-lessness” guarantee: a mechanical bull will be available for a joyride throughout the festival.
I’m not sure how many more selling points you need, but every ticket comes with:
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A complimentary cooler bag for your cheese
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A premium stemless wine glass (made of real glass!)
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A custom wine tote bag (and don’t Sydney siders love a tote bag?)
See you there—and please, bring an empty stomach!
https://www.mouldxpalooza.com/
