Cheese After Dark: Taste of Colours

Name: Cheese After Dark: Taste of Colours
Start: 2026-09-30T18:30:00+0930
End: 2026-09-30T20:30:00+0930
Location: Smelly Cheese Co.

Wed, 30 Sep, 6:30pm - 8:30pm ACST

Smelly Cheese Co.

Adelaide SA, Australia

Valérie Henbest

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Canvas, Cheese, Sparkling & Rosé

Wednesday 30th September | 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Adelaide Central Market | Smelly Cheese Co.

Unleash your creative spirit and join us for a very unique Canvas, Cheese, Sparkling and Rosé experience.
You don't need to be a skilled painter, you only need to bring your free spirited will to share a good and flavoursome time with us in the heart of the Adelaide Central Market.
Kate Wauchope will be our artist in residence and will share tips and suggestions for you to step into your creative side with more confidence.

Throughout the evening, enjoy delicious cheeses, sparkling and rosé, with Flammekueche served throughout the night, because painting is always better with something delicious in hand.

About Kate Wauchope
Kate is an established graphic designer and illustrator with a love of all things natural. Her style is free-flowing and easy-going as is her nature. From England to the Adelaide Hills, the countryside has always been a part of Kate's life. Having studied and worked in London for 16 years, there was never a dull moment when living in Chelsea on a barge or above the Ottolenghi cafe in Notting Hill. She discovered the dip pen whilst in London China Town and have been using it ever since. Many years spent sketching the London scenes, now it is more the local wildlife and Adelaide city scenes.

Cheese After Dark
A relaxed evening of creativity, cheese, bubbles, rosé and good company, right in the heart of the Adelaide Central Market.

Wednesday 30th September
6.30-8.30pm
Smelly Cheese Co., Adelaide Central Market

Come along, get creative, and enjoy a deliciously different night with us.

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

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Valérie Henbest

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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.