The Scenic Rim is the curving line of World Heritage-listed mountain ranges that forms the southern arc of southeast Queensland — Lamington National Park, Mount Barney, Main Range, the Tamborine plateau. It's a region defined as much by its geography as by its winegrowing. Within those mountains and foothills sit four distinct cellar door sub-areas: Canungra Valley in the south, the elevated Tamborine Mountain plateau in the east, the Fassifern Mount Alford cluster in the west, and the wider Beaudesert area running between them.
Cooee Tours covers up to ten Scenic Rim cellar doors across these four sub-areas as part of our broader Queensland wine tour programme. The region sits at the meeting point of two of our city departure spokes — Brisbane departures (1.5 hours via the Cunningham Highway) and Gold Coast departures (45 minutes to 1 hour from Surfers Paradise). Whichever city you're staying in, you're within an easy day-trip of the Scenic Rim.
The wine character here splits with elevation and soil. Lower in Canungra Valley and the wider Beaudesert area, volcanic soils produce full-bodied Shiraz, Verdelho and Chambourcin. On the Tamborine plateau, cool nights at 525 metres encourage cooler-climate-leaning styles — Wild Ferment Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and aromatic whites. The Fassifern Mount Alford cluster — Boonah's western cellar doors — works rich basalt soils into accessible reds and whites. Several producers across the region also work with fortified and experimental varieties. The region rewards a full day across multiple cellar doors precisely because the styles vary so much within it.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Scenic Rim region — the Yugambeh people of the eastern Scenic Rim including Tamborine Mountain, Lamington and the Canungra Valley, and the Ugarapul (Yugarapul) people of the broader Yuggera language family in the Fassifern Valley and Mount Alford country. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
Canungra
Canungra Valley
