About This Experience

Quality over quantity is the whole design of this small-group Hunter Valley day: Pokolbin's most respected cellar doors, behind-the-scenes time with winemakers, and lunch at Bistro Molines, the hatted restaurant perched among the vines. No big buses, no tourist traps, no rushing between back-to-back tastings. The tastings set the tone from the first pour, where cheese, olives and lavosh accompany the wines. Mount Pleasant's premium tasting showcases some of the Hunter's most storied Semillons and Shiraz, and at Keith Tulloch the experience can step up again, with options that take you deeper into one of the valley's benchmark producers. Three exclusive, tailored tastings in all, each at a cellar door that values depth, storytelling and craftsmanship. Expert guidance threads the day together. This tour partners only with wineries that offer real access, the kind of visits where winemakers appear, questions run long, and the difference between a good Hunter Semillon and a great one gets explained by someone who made both. Lunch is the day's centrepiece: Bistro Molines, one of the Hunter's iconic tables, set among Pokolbin's vines with views that compete with the menu. Guests cover their own lunch, and gladly; the point of the reservation is that the hard part, getting a table, is already done. Pickup and drop-off at your designated location in Sydney CBD or the Hunter Valley is included, with air-conditioned transport scaled to your group, from luxury SUV to mini bus. The small-group format keeps every tasting personal and every seat a good one. This is a day for couples, food-first travellers and anyone marking an occasion: the pace is elegant rather than packed, the wines are poured with time to discuss them, and the itinerary reads like a tasting menu of the Hunter itself, from benchmark Semillon to a hatted lunch with vineyard views. Your date is confirmed instantly online through Wine Trails, booked direct with the operator and with no middleman markup on the price. The Hunter Valley has plenty of wine tours; this is the one for travellers who would rather taste five wines properly than fifteen quickly, who want the winemaker's version of the story, and who believe a hatted lunch among the vines is the entire point of leaving Sydney.

Highlights

• ✓Pick-up and drop-off at your designated location in Sydney CBD or Hunter Valley
• ✓3 exclusive, tailored wine tastings at some of the Hunter Valley’s finest wineries
• ✓Cheese, olives and lavosh with your first tasting
• ✓Expert guidance and behind-the-scenes experiences with winemakers

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