Cheese After Dark with Bremerton Wines

Name: Cheese After Dark with Bremerton Wines
Start: 2026-09-02T18:30:00+0930
End: 2026-09-02T20:30:00+0930
Location: Adelaide Central Market Tour

Wed, 2 Sep, 6:30pm - 8:30pm ACST

Adelaide Central Market Tour

Adelaide SA, Australia

Valérie Henbest

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Wednesday 2 September | 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Celebrate the arrival of spring with an unforgettable evening of artisan cheese and exceptional South Australian wine.

Join us for our next Cheese After Dark as we welcome Bremerton Wines from the heart of Langhorne Creek. Throughout the evening, you'll enjoy a carefully curated selection of seasonal cheeses, perfectly matched with Bremerton's award-winning wines, while discovering the stories behind each pairing from Rebecca or Lucy Willson, the sisters behind one of South Australia's most respected family wineries.

Established in 1988, Bremerton is proudly family owned and today led by sisters Rebecca and Lucy Willson—the first sisters to run a winery in Australia. Their passion for Langhorne Creek shines through every bottle, crafting wines that are generous, expressive and made to be shared around the table. Deeply committed to sustainability, the family continues to care for their vineyards with future generations in mind, producing wines that truly reflect the region they call home.

Expect an evening filled with delicious cheese, beautiful wines, a few flammekueches, and plenty of laughs in a relaxed atmosphere that the Adelaide Central Market is known for.

Your ticket includes:

🧀 A generous selection of premium artisan cheeses
🍷 Guided wine pairings with Bremerton Wines
🥖 Seasonal accompaniments and freshly baked bread
🎤 Hosted tasting with Valérie Henbest and the Willson sisters
🛍️ Exclusive event-only offers

Whether you're a wine enthusiast, a cheese lover or simply looking for a memorable night out, this is the perfect way to welcome spring.

Wednesday 2 September
6.30pm – 8.30pm
📍 Smelly Cheese Co., Adelaide Central Market

Limited seats available. Book early to avoid missing out!

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.