Cheese After Dark - Alpha Box & Dice

Name: Cheese After Dark - Alpha Box & Dice
Start: 2025-03-12T18:30:00+1030
End: 2025-03-12T20:30:00+1030
Location: Smelly Cheese Shop

Wed, 12 Mar, 6:30pm - 8:30pm ACDT

Smelly Cheese Shop

Valérie Henbest

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Cheese After Dark – Alpha Box & Dice 🍷🧀

📅 Date: Wednesday, 12th March
⏰ Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
📍 Location: Adelaide Central Market* featuring Smelly Cheese Co.

This month, Cheese After Dark takes you on a journey of flavours and craftsmanship as we partner with Alpha Box & Dice, the innovative McLaren Vale winery crafting an "Alphabet of Wine." Each of their wines represents a unique winemaking project, celebrating the rich diversity of South Australia’s terroir—from McLaren Vale to Adelaide Hills and Barossa Valley.

What’s in store for the evening?

🧀 Five exceptional cheeses, hand-selected by Valérie from Smelly Cheese Co.
🍷 Perfectly paired wines from Alpha Box & Dice, featuring their boundary-pushing wines that celebrate alternate varieties.
🥖 Delicious Flammekueche from Tarte Gourmet, served fresh on the night.
✨ A relaxed, immersive tasting experience in the heart of Adelaide Central Market.

With a focus on alternative Mediterranean varieties and a spirit of innovation, Alpha Box & Dice challenges winemaking traditions—just as we love to push the boundaries of cheese pairings.

Whether you're a longtime cheese lover or simply looking for a unique night out, this masterclass promises unexpected discoveries and unforgettable flavours.

Limited spots available – book now and indulge in this one-of-a-kind tasting experience!

🗝️ Meet us at the entrance of the Adelaide Central Market on Gouger Street (through Haigh's Chocolates).

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Valérie Henbest - Cheese Specialist and Educator

Born and bred in Normandie – the home of Camembert – Valérie has now spent half her life in Australia.

In the early days, it was a case of bringing together the best of both worlds and with very little hesitation, Valérie decided to take her destiny into her own hands and worked towards making sure she would get one of the things she missed the most: le Fromage!

She naturally started to select a range of her favourite cheeses and put together a new importing business involving air and sea-freight landing regularly in Australia. The focus was on smaller French producers and strong relationships have been developed over many years with frequent visits to various regions of France and cheese shows. Valérie has also facilitated reciprocal visits to Australia enabling French producers to showcase their cheeses here.

Prompted by the desire to deliver cheese to the Australian consumers exactly the way their producers intended, Valérie kept pushing the art of affinage and became instrumental in creating one of Australia’s first high-tech caves to properly store and care for naturally rinded cheeses such as Comté, Beaufort, or Ossau Iraty.

Valérie now oversees the import of more than 10 tons of French cheeses per month, distributing Australia wide as well as selling it at the iconic Smelly Cheese Shop in the famous Adelaide Central Market.

Valérie is also extremely passionate about the art of tasting and appreciating cheese and has been asked to judge in some of the most important dairy shows in Australia and abroad.

In recent years, she has also focused more intensely on the education aspect of her work and has created a series of cheese masterclasses that she now conducts nationally and internationally.

Valérie has been acclaimed locally through various awards and has been the recipient of the annual award for outstanding contribution to gastronomy in South Australia in 2018 and received the French National Order of the Agricultural Merit Award for her outstanding contribution to agriculture and promoting French cheese in Australia in 2023.

Recently, Valérie was inducted into the Guilde Internationale des Fromagers in Paris as a recognition of her work, passion and influential role in the world of cheese.

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Wed, 12 Mar, 6:30pm - 8:30pm ACDT

Smelly Cheese Shop

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