With more wineries and cellar doors than you can shake the proverbial at, the Hunter Valley can be bewildering when it comes to choosing a wine-tasting experience. Here are 12 of our favourites. Broad sweeping vistas, craggy mountain peaks and braided rows of vines striating the land, the Hunter Valley is a wine-lover’s dream. But … Read more
Black walls, hard steel, crystals, candles and real wrought chainmail curtains, Vamp by Lisa McGuigan is all about the detail, all about the experience and, of course, all about great wine. What do you usually expect when you go to a winery cellar door? Light timber? White walls? A few wine barrels dotted about and … Read more
One of the many beauties about the regional NSW town of Mudgee is the quantity of quality wineries it has. But which ones do the winemakers themselves like to visit? Here are 7 family-run Mudgee wineries that get the blue tick from locals. Tucked away in its own little corner of New South Wales about … Read more
From picking to stomping to eating and drinking, Picking Day at Glandore Estate in the Hunter Valley gives you a fascinating insight into what it’s like to work a vintage at a winery. Here’s what happens in the vines. Have you ever wondered what it’s like to jump in a barrel of wine grapes and … Read more
With so much to see, do, eat and drink in Australia’s oldest wine region, it’s hard to know where to begin. So here are 10 of our favourites you should definitely keep in mind when you’re visiting the Hunter Valley. It’s not often you have a place to visit that’s great all year round. But … Read more
Chardonnay has seen quite a few twists and turns in its popularity over the last few decades, but at last it’s coming into its own. Here are 5 Chardonnays from the Hunter Valley, NSW that embody this magnificent varietal and show its sceptics exactly what they’ve all been missing. Australia’s oldest wine region and only … Read more
Recipient of the Hunter Valley Rising Star and Young Gun of Wine awards, and with names on his CV like Scarborough Wines, Thomas Wines, Hunter’s Dream Estate and currently Bimbadgen, it was only a matter of time before Richard Done started his own label. The Hunter Valley is Australia’s oldest wine region, where grapes grow … Read more