What's on while you're here.

The $50,000 Stanthorpe Art Prize exhibition — the region's flagship art event, on show at the Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery.

An after-hours twilight tasting experience at a Granite Belt winery.

A murder-mystery dinner and wine night at Ridgemill Estate, Severnlea.

Stanthorpe is the coldest town in Queensland, and for one month it makes a virtue of it. Fire pits, mulled wine, long lunches and — if the sky obliges — a genuine flurry or two.

The monthly Market in the Mountains at the Stanthorpe Showgrounds — local makers, growers and food.

Evening dining under the stars among the vines at Ridgemill Estate.

A national working-sheepdog championship brings the trials to Stanthorpe.

A guided stargazing night under the Granite Belt's dark skies at Ridgemill Estate.

Stanthorpe's spring garden festival — open gardens, plants and produce.

The Australian Small Winemakers Show — a long-running boutique-wine competition centred on the Granite Belt.

Queensland's chamber orchestra Camerata plays Bach in the historic church at Ballandean.

For one weekend each spring, the mountain's private gardens open to visitors — rainforest edges, cool-climate blooms and views back down to the coast.

A self-drive spring grazing weekend across Granite Belt cellar doors and producers.

A weekend of opera among the vines at Heritage Estate.

A celebration of the Granite Belt berry season in Stanthorpe.

The annual Stanthorpe agricultural show — the town's biggest community weekend.

Held every second year, the Apple & Grape Harvest Festival is the Granite Belt at full volume — grape crushing, a grand parade, a wine trail and a town that swells to meet it.