Premium Hunter Valley Wine Tour with Tastings & 2 Course Lunch
- 6h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
Spend a delightful day in Australia's oldest wine production region of the Hunter Valley on this premium full-day tour from the Hunter Valley. Your guide will take you to three select boutique wineries for comprehensive wine tastings including the Hunter's renown Shiraz and Semillon varietals. Take an exclusive behind the scenes wine production tour before enjoying a Signature Lunch Experience at a light filled restaurant overlooking the surrounding hills. After lunch visit a boutique gin distillery for tastings of gin infused with Australian native botanicals, as well a s tasing of hand made limoncello. The final cellar door tasting pairs their wine with locally made cheese and chocolate. Before returning to Sydney we look for wild kangaroos that live among the vines and bushland. In a premium vehicle, your knowledgeable driver-guide will keep things relaxed and on schedule, providing commentary and music as you chat with new friends on the return journey to Sydney
Inclusions
What's included
- Carbon neutral with all vehicle emissions offset
- Travel in a premium vehicle with a professional driver/guide
- Behind the scenes wine production tour
- Accommodation pickups from Cessnock, Poklobin and Rothbury areas. Call 02 9318 0853 to arrange
- Gourmet lunch
- Wine Tastings
- Paired wine + chocolate tastings
What's not
- Gratuities
Itinerary
We visit 3 wineries on this tour with guided tastings by a local supplier at each venue. The wineries differ depending on availability. Behind the scenes tours of the wine production facility may be available on the day.
First stop for wine tasting at this Tuscan styled winery producing premium wines
Go behind the scenes for a production tour seeing how their wines before tasting the wines
A light filled, modern venue overlooking the surrounding hills and vines. Enjoy your Signature Lunch Experience which includes your main meal accompanied by a complementary glass of premium wine or beer. Dessert follows with tea/coffee.
A small, family owned distillery creating innovative gins with Australian native plants. Plus they make an amazing limoncello! Tasting and country hospitality at its best!
Enjoy paired tastings of wine with locally produced wine and cheese
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Ratings come from 80 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
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5A great day, lovely...
A great day, lovely lunch, plenty to do , wine tasting, cheese and chocolate tasting, a lot of fun, well organised
5Wine Tour in Newcastle Australia
Our wine, chocolate and food tour was absolutely great!! The people giving the tours and wine tastings were very knowledgeable and polite! Steve our tour guide/driver was extremely polite, knowledgeable, had a great sense of humour and was helpful in every way possible!! My wife and I booked this tour in a way to join the tour in. Newcastle not in Sydney and we were met at our pick up location right on schedule and Steve made sure to help arrange our pick up in a timely manner to get back to our ship on time. Thank you so much Steve!!
3Picked up from our...
Picked up from our private accommodation which was wonderful. Headed to first winery and told nothing more than just to be back at a certain time by the driver which was an odd way to start the tour. Went to Irongate winery first which was a wonderful experience and tasting. We went to a very quick gin/vodka/liqueur tasting next which personally I wouldn't do again as I'm not a spirit drinker and with the wine it wasn't a good mix. Stopped next at lunch which was okay, but the wine tasting at this venue was less than desirable. In a clinical industrial kitchen setting and told very little about the wines, not even what vineyard they were from. Cheese tasting included but random cheeses such as labneh and feta given in plastic cups and served on a wooden board covered in a paper serviette. Was a bit tacky and in comparison to the really professional and detailed explanation/tasting at Irongate it was a bit of a lowlight and definitely wouldn't do the tour again just based on this stop. For our final destination we went to polkobin estate for chocolate and wine tasting. Again, setting much nicer and choc very yummy. Wines were ok. No explanation about the wines themselves but just sit at tables with a laminated paper that had explanations and they came to pour the wine. But at least the ambience and setting in their sitting area was very nice. Overall, it was good value for money as lunch and a drink was included, and we went to three wine tastings and the spirit tasting. However I probably wouldn't recommend the tour to others. Wasn't blown away by any of the wines and the second stop really tainted the experience.
4Great tour with friends!
Stefan was a great tour leader. Good group of people on tour with us Aussies from Sweden, Germany, California & Chile! Cheese tasting was great, chocolates were delicious. Markets at Sobels Winery were fun! We weren't fussed on the vodka/gin distillery, though it was fun to try.
5Very enjoyable
Ronnie our tour guide/driver made the experience very enjoyable. All wineries were different to the mainstream and very enjoyable. I would highly recommend it
3Disappointing promotion & costing of tour
When I booked this tour, it was promoted as a Carbon neutral vehicle with emission offsets / luxury Mercedez Benz vehicle With half the number of guests on the bus. We were picked up late with the driver stating there were several resorts with the same name which there in fact aren't only to return their for lunch, I suspect the driver was not that experienced. False promotion of the tour does not encourage people to tell others of the day.
Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 20 travellers
- Operated by
- Colourful Collective Travel
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Minimum drinking age is 18 years
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Vegetarian option is available; please advise at time of booking if required
- Please note: Pickup is only available from the Pokolbin, Cessnock, and Lovedale areas. You must pick one of these options during the booking process. If you need to change your departure location, please contact your local operator directly as they do not stop at all locations if a location has not been selected
How it compares in Hunter Valley
- Its from-price is 20% above the median of the 13 day trips we list in Hunter Valley.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 4 of 13.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Hunter Valley
The Hunter Valley is a New South Wales wine region of vineyards, horse studs and low ranges, a couple of hours' drive north of Sydney.
The valley follows the Hunter River inland from Newcastle, with the main wine district around Pokolbin and the town of Cessnock at its gateway. Vines have grown here since the 1820s, which makes it one of Australia's oldest wine regions, and semillon whites and shiraz reds are its best-known bottles. Many cellar doors sit among gum trees and lawns, with long views across the rows.
