About This Experience

The tour starts pouring at 12pm and has you back at your accommodation by 4pm — a half-day formula for travellers short on time who still want the full Hunter Valley circuit. Two exclusive boutique winery stops around Pokolbin and Lovedale anchor the afternoon, and the centrepiece is a locally sourced light casual lunch served in the heart of a working boutique vineyard. Then come Hunter Valley vodkas and gins — a casual, fun break from wine — and cheese and chocolate shops before the drive home. • Two boutique winery tastings, fees included • Light casual lunch at a working boutique vineyard • Local vodka and gin sampling stop • Cheese and chocolate shop visits • Accommodation pick-up and return The tour is accessible regardless of mobility, and the operator caters to medical dietary requirements where venues allow. Free pick-up covers Cessnock, Nulkaba, Pokolbin and Rothbury; a minimum of six guests is required to run, with the full- or half-day tour offered as an alternative below that.

Highlights

• ✓Half-day format: first tasting at 12pm, done by 4pm
• ✓Light lunch included at a working boutique vineyard
• ✓Two boutique winery tastings plus vodka and gin samples
• ✓Accessible tour with accommodation pick-up and return

Meeting Point

Pokolbin

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Cancellation Policy

TOUR INFORMATION Minimum number of 6 people are needed to run this tour. If the Minimum numbers have not been met, you may be transferred over to blend in with a full day or our standard half day tour We will let you know if this happens. Each tour has a specific route to follow with venues pre-selected and tasting fees paid for. Checking the description of the tour before you book is important as changes are not permitted. 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 will be usually between 11am (pickup) to 4.30pm (drop-off) on average but may be different on the day. If you're accommodation or pickup address is outside the 10km from Central Pokolbin, you will need to meet the tour group at the Hunter Valley Gardens bus stop at the shopping village. Important to note: We do NOT collect you from Mt View or Pokolbin Mountain Roads. You will need to meet the tour bus group at the an agreed location. 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 may be wise to drive down to the gate to wait, in the event of 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. LUNCH you may be offered alternative lunch options if the weather is not suitable for a light picnic style lunch. This will be advised on the day. As we source our lunch from a local cafe and can not guarantee to meet all dietary choices. The cafe can cater to Medical requirements such as GF, DF, Vegan, Vegetarian. Please contact us if you require specific food requirements. Please discuss your medical allergies or restrictions with us. Tasting Fees and Lunch is included Visits at the Hunter Belle Cheese rooms are paid visits and involve samples of the cheese/dairys products. It is not mandatory for you to participate. Vegan cheeses are not provided at these samples, this is a decision of the Hunter Belle Cheese Dairy. Cheese Tasting fee's are not redeemable or refundable. The chocolate venue is to look and purchase products/food if you desire. At times samples are provided, if they are these samples are complimentary from the venue and arranged by the venue themselves. You do not have to participate. Any complaints or feedback about receiving complimentary samples should be directed the venue owner or staff and is controlled by HVTours and voluntary to participate in by you. Your paid Spirits Tastings at Small Mouth Vodka is for fun and something different to try. You are not obligated to participate and is voluntary to participate in. Please let us know at time of booking if you do not wish to participate. Tastings at the Garden Cellars is a demonstration of varied wine tasting presentations available, people have a choice of their tastings at this venue. Wines only - wines and local spirits - local spirits only or people can go in to the shopping village to do some personal shopping and meet the bus group back at bus at allocated time. Please discuss this with your tour guide on the day. Tastings are not mandatory and are not refundable if you chose not to participate. 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 AND USE OF RECREATIONAL DRUGS ON ANY TOUR BUS Is prohibited. This includes any alcohol drinks you may purchase while on tour in the tour bus. We do not allow eskys or any open vessels of alcohol onboard in the tour bus. If you breach this and are found consuming alcohol 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 is not a party bus and does not have a ‘party bus’ bus accreditation or insurances. SEAT BELTS MUST BE WORN