The launch for this year's festival will be at a restaurant in Sydney on March 4. The Orange-inspired dinner will be held at Three Blue Ducks at Dunning Avenue, Rosebery, starting at 6pm.

Priced at $100 per person, the event will showcase the best of Orange’s produce and award-winning wines with producers and wine makers from the region seated among the guests throughout the three-course feast.

FOOD Week is now in its 27^th year and, according to organisers, it is Australia’s longest running regional food and wine festival.

Each year it delivers six signature events and more than 90 satellite events held during the autumn harvest and vintage season.

Key events during the festival are the Night Market, FOOD HQ, the Autumn Grazing Dinner, FOOD Train, Forage, and the Sunday Producers Brunch and Market.