About This Experience

Every winery on this full-day tour pairs its pours: one tasting with cheese, one with chocolate and cheese, one with flavoured crackers — boutique, small-batch wines matched to complement flavour and texture at each stop. Between cellar doors there are small-batch vodka and gin samples (entirely voluntary), a lunch stop at a local cafe, restaurant or brewhouse where you order at your own cost, and visits to an artisan chocolate shop and a local cheese store. Keep an eye out the window — kangaroos and other native wildlife are regular company. • Wine tasting paired with cheese • Wine tasting paired with chocolate and cheese • Wine tasting paired with flavoured crackers • Local vodka and gin sampling (optional, venue-dependent) • Chocolate shop and cheese store visits Travel is in a modern air-conditioned vehicle with an experienced local guide. Pick-up and return are complimentary within 10km of Hunter Valley Gardens (including Lovedale, Cessnock, Nulkaba, Rothbury and Pokolbin); the operator is a Travelers' Choice winner with 5-star ratings.

Highlights

• ✓Three paired wine tastings: cheese, chocolate and crackers
• ✓Optional small-batch vodka and gin samples
• ✓Artisan chocolate and local cheese shop stops
• ✓Travelers' Choice winner with 5-star ratings

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TOUR INFORMATION Each tour has a specific route to follow with venues pre-selected and paid for. Checking the description of the tour before you book is important as changes are not permitted unless the consent of the driver/guide on the day and notification to the venues prebooked. Venues can not be changed. The tasting food and wines can not be changed. We will ask the venues to cater for medical dietary needs as best we/they can. You will be contacted before your tour often the day/night before with your pickup time and location to meet the tour bus. If you do not get this call, text or email please call the main phone number. Your tour pickup will be usually between 9 and 9.50 am for full day tours. We will ask you to wait for the tour bus in a specific location, this is for the ease of pickup, and you may be able to have the tour bus return you to the door of your accommodation after the tour. If you have chosen an accommodation with a long driveway or on a rural property, we do not enter the private property and will only pick you up from the front gate of the property or a near-by main crossroad *It is wise to drive down to the gate to wait out of the weather. There are other people to pickup on a shared tour. We would like you to be ready to board the bus when it arrives. HV Tours has a 10 km pickup zone from Central Pokolbin to your accommodation. If you are outside this zone, you will be required to pay an additional pickup fee which will be outlined on your booking page, Cessnock, Nulkaba and Rothbury are complimentary. This fee is for your pick up and return to your accommodation. If you do not wish to pay this pickup fee, you are welcome to meet the tour bus and group at a central Pokolbin location such as the Hunter Valley Gardens or Roche Estate or meet the tour at the first cellar door at 10am. We do not drive on Mt View or Pokolbin Mountain roads as these roads can be poorly maintained and can be dangerous for passenger vehicles. We will happily meet you at an agreed location down from the mountain. Tasting fee's are included in the tour. Tastings samples of food are included in your wine tastings and are dependent on the venue on the day. Spirits Tastings at Small Mouth Vodka or The Garden Cellars The lunch menu may include a surcharge on certain dishes. If you select a dish with a surcharge, you must pay this before you leave the restaurant. If you do not pay this surcharge HVT will pause the group tour schedule to return to the restaurant for you to pay We will ask the venues to cater for medical dietary needs as best we/they can. It is important to also undertake your own research and be aware of what you chose to consume, if in doubt, please do not consume the foods/wines DRESS CODE ON THE DAY Clothing - please wear clothing suitable to sharing a common space in the tour vehicle with other people and appropriate for the weather on the day. Tours are conducted in all weather Footwear - please wear closed in footwear. You could possibly be walking on uneven/wet/dusty ground and for safety reasons we strongly encourage and recommend closed in footwear DRINKING OF ALCOHOL INSIDE THE TOUR BUS Is prohibited. This includes any alcohol drinks you may purchase whilst on tour with us. We do not allow eskys or any open vessels of alcohol onboard the tour bus. If you breach this and are found consuming or with an open vessel of alcohol in the tour bus, we have the right to ask you to leave the tour immediately and no refund will be given. HV Tours does not have a ‘party bus’ bus accreditation or insurance. SEAT BELTS MUST BE WORN