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Drive the Hunter Valley yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks Australia's oldest wine region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Cessnock, Pokolbin, Broke or Lovedale — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 84 narrated stories cover 62 cellar doors and the people behind them: as you roll into Pokolbin you'll hear how James Busby stepped ashore in the 1820s carrying vine cuttings gathered across France and Spain, and how every Australian wine region that followed traces its genetics back to that single act. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for a long cellar-door lunch, replay anything, and the audio keeps working when the signal drops on the back roads toward Broke. You'll need a car and a designated driver; tastings are booked and paid directly with the wineries.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
Itinerary
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1Cessnock
The gateway town to the Lower Hunter and the default starting point for the drive.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2Pokolbin
The heart of the Lower Hunter - a plateau of deep red volcanic basalt sheltered by the Brokenback Range, and Shiraz country.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3Tyrrell's Wines
Edward Tyrrell bought this Broke Road block in 1858; his great-grandson Murray made Australia's first great varietal Chardonnay, Vat 47, here.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4Brokenwood Wines
Founded on McDonalds Road in 1970 by wine writer James Halliday and a group of Sydney friends, and home of the Graveyard Vineyard Shiraz.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5Audrey Wilkinson Vineyard
De Beyers Road cellar door and one of the benchmark labels named for long-term Hunter Semillon cellaring.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6Drayton's Family Wines
One of the Hunter's founding family dynasties, still pouring on Oakey Creek Road in Pokolbin.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
7Tulloch Wines
Another of the Hunter's enduring family names, on De Beyers Road in Pokolbin.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
8Keith Tulloch Wine
Hermitage Road producer whose Semillon is among the labels to seek out for cellaring.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
9Tempus Two Wines
Zinc-clad, angular cellar door founded in 1998 by Lisa McGuigan as a deliberately modern take on Hunter wine.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
10Hunter Valley Gardens
Forty hectares of eight themed gardens in Pokolbin, created by Bob and Sally Oatley in the 1990s.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
11Margan
Milbrodale Road estate in Broke, where lighter alluvial soils give Semillon of exceptional finesse.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free -
12Lovedale
Quiet transition-zone country north of Pokolbin, producing elegant Semillon and Chardonnay and home of the May Lovedale Long Lunch.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Cancellation Policy
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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