Join - An award winning Wine and Food Experience - tasting fees and lunch included (accessible)
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Premium Hunter Valley Wine & Food Experience
Indulge in a truly unforgettable escape with our award-winning full-day wine and food experience in the stunning Hunter Valley. 🍷
Step into a day designed for pure enjoyment, where every detail has been carefully crafted to deliver a premium, stress-free adventure. Recognised with the Hunter Region’s “Outstanding Tourism Services” award and consistently rated five stars, this is more than just a wine tour—it’s a celebration of exceptional taste, scenery, and warm Australian hospitality.
From the moment you are picked up, you will be immersed in the charm of one of Australia’s most beloved wine regions. Travel in comfort as you are guided through a handpicked selection of boutique wineries, intimate cellar doors, and picturesque vineyards. Along the way, you will sample a curated range of superior wines—each pour showcasing the passion and craftsmanship of local winemakers. 🍽️
Between tastings, relax and indulge in a delicious lunch, perfectly complementing your day of discovery. With all transfers, tastings, and dining included in one seamless per-person price, you can simply sit back, sip, and savour every moment.
What Your Day Includes
- Premium Wine Tastings: Visit 3 to 4 boutique cellar doors for exclusive tastings of local wines with food pairings (at 3 venues). All tasting fees are fully included.
- Local Vodka & Gins: Try locally distilled vodka and gins (optional).
- Delicious Lunch: Enjoy a one-course, sit-down meal with a complimentary drink.
- Artisanal Chocolates: Sample local chocolates and stock up on sweet treats to take home. 🍫
- Local Cheeses: Discover and purchase exceptional local cheeses during our visits to regional producers.
- Comfortable Transport: Travel in style and comfort in a clean, modern, air-conditioned late-model vehicle.
- Wildlife Spotting: Keep an eye out for kangaroos and other native animals in their natural habitat. 🦘
- Expert Local Guide: Enjoy entertaining and informative commentary from an experienced local guide.
Why Guests Love This Tour
- Award-Winning Service: Proud two-time winner of the Hunter Region ‘Outstanding Tourism Services’ Award.
- Exceptional Ratings: Backed by over 100 5-star reviews on TripAdvisor and more than 1,000 5-star reviews on Google.
- Unrushed Experience: We believe in relaxed exploration, allowing you to take your time and truly enjoy each stop.
- Friendly, Professional Guides: Our local guides are knowledgeable, polite, energetic, and passionate about the region.
- Perfect for All Wine Lovers: Tailored to suit all wine enthusiasts, whether you are a seasoned connoisseur or starting your wine journey.
Important Tour Details
- Lunch Surcharge: Some premium menu items may have an additional surcharge, payable directly to the restaurant.
- Dietary Requirements & Allergies: We do our best to advise venues of any medical food allergies or dietary requirements. However, as tastings are provided by third-party venues, we cannot guarantee that all medical food allergies, choices, or restrictions can be met. Food and wine tastings may contain traces of allergens. We encourage guests to undertake their own research and use their discretion when booking.
- Local Pickup and Return: Complimentary within a 10km radius of Hunter Valley Gardens Shopping Village. Additional charges apply for distant locations (Newcastle, Maitland, Singleton, etc.).
- Group Bookings: This day tour is not suitable for hens or bucks groups unless you are booking the entire tour vehicle for your private group.
- Weather & Dress Code: Tours operate in all weather conditions. Please wear comfortable clothing suitable for a shared vehicle and appropriate for the day’s weather. Closed-in footwear is strongly recommended for safety on uneven, wet, or dusty ground.
How to Book
- Select your preferred tour date.
- Choose your pickup and return options.
- Add any special requirements, such as mobility concerns or medical dietary needs.
- Confirm payment and complete your booking.
Additional Information
A thank you for booking your wine tasting tour with us. You are set for a fun and informative day exploring the Hunter Valley Vineyards.
If your booking is within 24 hours of your tour date, make sure your booking has been seen.
You will be contacted the night before by text or email to advise you, your pickup time for your tour. Sometimes I’m on tour and I might not send this to late. A general average is most pickups are between 9.00 and 9.50am. We pickup from most reception or entrance areas of hotels/motels not individual rooms/cabin/villas etc.
Please ensure your pickup address is in the Pokolbin, Cessnock, Rothbury, Lovedale areas NOT a Sydney, NSW hotel or resort.
Surcharges may apply if your pickup is outside of the 12km free pickup zone.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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.
We visit local businesses to view and purchase from their products. Some local businesses may offer complimentary samples and this is not assured to customers, it is subject to the owner of the businesses. This is not controlled by HV Tours. HV Tours tries to work with other business owners to showcase their products but sometimes this is not possible.
You will be contacted before your tour, often the day/night before, with your pickup time and location to meet the tour bus.
Your tour pickup will usually be between 9.00 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 nearby 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 and return 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 pickup 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 10.00 am.
We do not drive on Mt View or Pokolbin Mountain roads as these roads can be poorly maintained and can be dangerous for heavy passenger vehicles. We will happily meet you at an agreed location down from the mountain.
Tasting fees are included in the tour. Tastings at cheese and chocolate venues are often complimentary and managed by the venues themselves; samples are dependent on the venue, and we will let you know on the day. You do not have to participate in this stop. Spirits tastings at Small Mouth Vodka or The Garden Cellars are often in demand and sought after by the majority of tour services, so waits may be experienced. You are not obligated to participate; this is your choice on the day.
The lunch menu may include a surcharge on certain dishes. If you select a dish with a surcharge, the dishes with surcharges will be clearly marked and it is your choice if you order this dish. You must pay this surcharge directly to the restaurant in person either before or after your meal. If you do not pay this surcharge, HVT may need to return to the restaurant for you to pay this surcharge before the tour continues, inconveniencing others on the tour.
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.
- Weather: Tours are conducted in all weather.
- Footwear: Please wear closed-in footwear. You could possibly be walking on uneven, wet, or dusty ground and for safety reasons we strongly encourage and recommend closed-in footwear.
Drinking of Alcohol Inside the Tour Bus
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 eskies 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.
Group Restrictions
All shared day tours are not suitable for hens or bucks groups without prior notice and booking the whole tour bus out for just your group.
Seat Belts
Seat belts must be worn at all times.
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Her knowledge of the region is really good.
We had a few wineries that we wanted to go to so Julie arranged the timing and bookings perfectly.
We will definitely be utilising Julie, HVT every time we come back.
Thanks Julie
Keri & Duncan M
Julie was incredibly accommodating and made our last-minute booking so easy, which we really appreciated. David was a fantastic tour guide friendly, knowledgeable, and entertaining. He made the day relaxed, fun, and enjoyable from start to finish.
The selection of wineries and distilleries was excellent, giving us a great variety of experiences, and the lunch was absolutely delicious. We couldn't have asked for a better day exploring the Hunter Valley. Highly recommend Hunter Valley Tours to anyone looking for a fun, well-organised wine tour!
Cheers
Skye and Nathan
Loved it will definitely go again! ❤️
My partner and I loved every second of our full day wine tour with HV Tours. Evelyn was an absolutely incredible tour guide, and went out of her way to accommodate all of us, and particularly one of the guests who wasn’t from Australia, such as stopping to see / take photos of kangaroos etc. We also loved that we went to smaller boutique wineries, not the bigger ones, so we got to really appreciate the art of wine making, directly from the people involved with it. I have done wine tours previously, but this was my partner’s first one, and we will absolutely book with HV Tours again, and would not hesitate to recommend them to others.
Evelyn was a fantastic guide joining in with our jokes and banter throughout the day.
the start was slow and rough but the end was amazing, St Clair wines was amazing !
The first couple stops were boring, the end really saved it, I would review and choose other places to visit.
Changing to 1 star as the company seem to find it necessary to ask us to change the review, take clients reviews on board and make the correct changes? In future run the locations past the clients before confirming.
People are allowed their opinions and while the driver was fine the stops and experience for our day was boring and not enjoyable except for Hugh at st Clair’s.
Many thanks
Stop asking us to change the reviews
Our driver Matt was awesome. Polite, patient, friendly, cheerful, He made the whole day fun, easy, and memorable with his warm personality.
Couldn’t fault the experience at al, highly recommend this tour, Julie is awesome!
We went to some amazing wineries, we tasted everything on offer from cheese to chocolate & olive oils as well as wine, vodka & gin & became great friends with the other people on the bus! Our fave winery was St Clair which is a boutique winery with an amazing mother son team who made us feel like we were visiting their home. The Pokolbin Estate host had us laughing & enjoying their wonderful wines & choccies. Would definitely recommend HV tours as the host and Hunter Valley as a great place for a ladies weekend to have fun, enjoy some beautiful wines & overall have a hassle free weekend!!! Ladies weekend getaways within 2 hours of Sydney are good for the soul. Thank you HV Tours!!
We visited several cellar doors and some choccies and cheese and gin...!
Needless to say a bit wobbly by the end of the day but it was a great friendly, fun and excellent experience! 👍
Very informative and we had so much fun!
I highly recommend anyone else giving these guys a go. We have had nothing but a great experience with HV Tours. Julie is a fantastic tour guide!
Somehow she managed to drive, entertain, tell stories, keep everyone laughing and make a group of grown adults feel like we were on a road trip with that one friend who somehow knows everyone, everything and always has the best stories. Not a single quiet moment and many a laugh.
The wineries were great, sure… but half the highlights happened between destinations with her behind the wheel, delivering commentary, laughs and enough energy to power the entire bus. By the end of the day we weren’t sure if we’d been on a wine tour or just spent the day being personally chauffeured around by an absolute legend. Either way 10/10, would happily be driven around anywhere by incredible Josie every day of the week. She is one in a million, no matter the occasion she will make it one too remember.
David our driver/guide was excellent in his professionalism, organisation and welcoming friendly nature.
The bus was modern, clean, tidy and airconditioned as it was a reasonably warm day. Little things like a cooler with complimentary water and a storage are for any wine purchases on board were also nice touches.
The lunch provided at our lunch stop venue was just enough and the cellar doors were a mix of micro boutique wineries and a more commercial outlet. All provided interesting, friendly and generous tastings of wonderfully delicious wine varieties.
We would highly recommend you visit HV Tours website and book one of their tours that suits your stay in wine country, we found it very enjoyable and great value for money.
I spoke at length with Julia who apologised profusely but was not even prepared to pay for our lunch (2).!!!!!
None of it was her fault and all the men in the wineries were against her!!!!!!!
Don't go anywhere near her tours, there are plenty of others who don't falsely advertised their tours.
Leave her alone.
Hunter Valley cheese was so delightful for lunch, love a ploughmans lunch and could listen to Louise talk all day!
St Clair’s beautiful wine, stunning space and friendly service.
Absolutely would do the tour again and the venues.
Thanks Evelyn for a beautiful day
The tour itself was fantastic with multiple wineries visited, plenty of delicious cheese and chocolate, and even a gin and vodka tasting which was a great addition. Everything was so well organised and relaxed, which made the day feel really special.
Bruce truly made the day what it was. His energy, friendliness and knowledge made the whole group feel welcome and taken care of.
I’ll definitely be coming back with my girls for my hens — and hopefully Bruce will be our guide again!
Thank you Bruce, you’re an absolute legend!
Everything was perfectly organised, relaxed, and genuinely enjoyable.
Our driver and guide Bruce was outstanding — kind, friendly, cheerful, and incredibly knowledgeable.
He made the whole day fun, easy, and memorable with his warm personality.
Couldn’t fault the experience at all — highly recommend this tour and Bruce in particular!
We enjoyed and were very impressed with the two wineries we visited - Oakvale and St Clair - both of which had a good range and quality of wines that they offered to us to taste. Both presenters / sommeliers were passionate about their wines, which made their presentations interesting and entertaining, and engaging. We did buy some wines from both wineries.
The Small Mouth distillery was interesting and their products were novel. We really enjoyed the flavoured gin, vodka and liqueur tastings. The cheese and chocolate shops also had a good range of products, and we left with samples of each.
We thoroughly enjoyed our tour and would highly recommend the half day tour as a good introduction to some of the local wineries and attractions in the Hunter Valley.
Ross, our driver was very informative & accommodating.
Thanks Julie for the surprise valentines gift!
This is the only wine tour in the Hunter Valley region that is wheelchair accessible, and their thoughtful planning made the whole day completely relaxed and stress free. No worrying about logistics, no fuss, just feeling included and able to enjoy the experience with the rest of the group.
When we left an item on the bus, Julie didn't hesitate to drop it back to our hotel reception, which we truly appreciated. That says a lot about the level of service.
We met heaps of lovely people, visited a great selection of wineries, all offering something a little different, and would not hesitate to book again next time we're in the Hunter Valley.
She took us to a great mix of wineries, plus a cheese shop and chocolate factory, so the day felt exciting and really full. The whole experience was smooth, well-organised, and so much fun.
We left feeling happy, relaxed, and grateful for such a memorable day. Highly recommend!
Craig, our guide, was an absolute wealth of knowledge. His warm personality, kindness, and genuine passion for the region made the day truly special. He took us to unique little wineries we may never have found on our own, and at each stop we felt welcomed and looked after. Having the places to ourselves made it even more memorable, and Craig’s hospitality really elevated the whole experience. He did a wonderful job, and we are very grateful.
A big thank you also to Julie, who provided exceptional service in the lead-up to our tour. She contacted us both a week prior and the night before, ensuring everything ran smoothly. Her professionalism and friendly communication added a lovely personal touch.
We highly recommend this tour to anyone wanting a relaxed, informative, and beautifully organised day in the Hunter Valley
Small group tour, excellent choice of tastings. Memorable day in outstanding area with excellent company. Couldn't have been better!
We had a person in a wheelchair and they took the most incredible care of my aunt.
I cannot recommend this company highly enough.
Booking was easy and they were happy to pivot on the day but also checked in to the stops ahead.
Great value for money 10/10
Visited interesting wineries which he knew provided top tastings
Very nice lunch with cheese and chocolate tastings adding to the day
Definitely recommend for anyone wanting a great day in this area
It was simply the best. 👍👍
All cellar doors were all so different with there own presentations , and what there cellar door had to offer. We never left empty handed from any venue. Was a fabulous Christmas shopping day with fun on the side.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thankyou jules, you made our day with the delightful company of other guests in the comfy van , and you were the icing on the cake
Lovewandsxx
Overall, the day trip was smooth and enjoyable.
Craig was our tour guide and he was an absolute legend. The wineries were great and we didn’t feel rushed at all.
Thank you for an unforgettable day.
Mia and Ash

































































