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2025 has been another stellar year for our Melbourne Royal Food and Beverage Awards and the festive season is a great time of the year to celebrate with Melbourne Royal medal-winning products and produce.

‘Tis the season to eat, drink and be merry — and what better way to do it than with Melbourne Royal’s award-winning flavours? We’ve curated our favourite 2025 Food & Beverage Award winners to help you craft a Christmas feast worth celebrating.

This month, Melbourne Royal springs into celebrating our great Australian wine makers and dairy producers. We congratulate Meadowbank Wines Tasmania for winning the Jimmy Watson Memorial Trophy with their 2024 Pinot Noir at the 2025 Melbourne Royal Wine Awards, recently held in the Victoria Pavilion at Melbourne Showgrounds.

Australia’s dairy industry is embracing a bold new flavour frontier – one that blends global inspiration with local excellence. At the Australian Grand Dairy Awards, held on Thursday 13 November, two Grand Champions and 21 Champions were crowned from a record-breaking 471 entries, showcasing the creativity, quality and multicultural influence shaping the future of Australian dairy.

Melbourne Showgrounds was proud to host the second edition of FutureAg powered by AGRITECHNICA from 12–14 August 2025, welcoming thousands of visitors, exhibitors and industry leaders to Australia’s largest showcase of agricultural machinery and future farming.