Cheese After Dark with Gentle Folk

Name: Cheese After Dark with Gentle Folk
Start: 2026-10-14T18:30:00+1030
End: 2026-10-14T20:30:00+1030
Location: Smelly Cheese Co.

Wed, 14 Oct, 6:30pm - 8:30pm ACDT

Smelly Cheese Co.

Adelaide SA, Australia

Valérie Henbest

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CHEESE AFTER DARK x GENTLE FOLK

Wednesday 14th October | 6.30-8.30pm
Smelly Cheese Co. | Adelaide Central Market

We’re teaming up with one of the Adelaide Hills’ much-loved wine producers for a very special Cheese After Dark with Gentle Folk.

Based in Basket Range in the Adelaide Hills, Gentle Folk is the family winery of Gareth & Rainbo Belton. What started in 2013 with just three barrels of wine has grown into a beautiful, thoughtful wine project, with the couple now farming eight hectares of vines across five sites. Their vineyards are farmed organically, with a strong focus on the land, the seasons and letting each site speak for itself.

Gareth will be joining us for the evening, sharing the stories behind the wines, the vineyards and the way they make them, making this one a little more special than your average Wednesday night.

And of course, we’ll be doing what we do best...

🧀 5 seriously good cheeses
🍷 5 Gentle Folk wines
🥖 3 different Flammekueches served throughout the evening

Expect plenty of delicious pairings, stories, discoveries and good conversation as we explore what happens when great Adelaide Hills wine meets exceptional cheese.

📅 Wednesday 14th October
⏰ 6.30 to 8.30pm
📍 Smelly Cheese Shop at the Adelaide Central Market

Come hungry. Come thirsty. Come curious. 🧀🍷

Limited spots available! Book your tickets and join us for a very Gentle Cheese After Dark.

Gallery

Such an immersive experience, something I've never done it before! Incredible cheese selection, knowledge, great wines and such good vibes! Thank you so much!

Nathan
Thank you for sharing your passion and knowledge of cheese with us. I learnt so much about cheese that night and look forward to visiting your shop again soon!

David
Valérie, your Cheese and Chocolate Masterclass was an absolute delight. Everything tasted exquisite and nothing was "bof".

Karen

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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.