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Your Ultimate Personalised Hunter Valley Escape
Experience the very best of the spectacular Hunter Valley with a premium, private wine tour tailored completely to your tastes. Beyond world-class wineries, this renowned region boasts exceptional craft breweries, boutique distilleries, and exquisite local cheese and chocolate tastings. 🍷
Travel in style and comfort with up to 7 of your favourite people in a private luxury vehicle, complete with a professional driver dedicated to your group. 🚗
Design Your Perfect 7-Hour Itinerary
We want you to experience the Hunter Valley exactly how you want to. While we are delighted to share our local recommendations, you have complete freedom to design your own 7-hour itinerary. Simply book and pay for your preferred tastings and dining, and we will take care of the driving!
Popular Itinerary Options
- Winery Lovers: Book your choice of 4 premium wineries.
- The Variety Pack: Book 3 wineries plus 1 craft brewery, distillery, cheese tasting, or chocolate experience.
- Gourmet Lunch: Please allow at least 1.5 to 2 hours to relax and enjoy a delicious lunch. 🍽️
Highly Recommended Dining Spots
- Pescara Restaurant, Pokolbin
- The Wood Restaurant, Pokolbin
- Iron Gate Kitchen
- Hunters Quarter
- Bistro Molines
- Baume, Pokolbin
- eRemo Restaurant & Bar
Important Tour Details
Our tour pricing includes your private luxury car and professional driver. Please note that wine tasting fees and food costs are not included and should be booked directly with the venues in advance to secure your spots.
Convenient Pick-Up & Drop-Off
- FREE pick up & drop off: Enjoy complimentary transfers from Cessnock, Nulkaba, Pokolbin, and Lovedale. (Pick-up and drop-off times are external to your 7-hour tour, meaning you get a full 7 hours of touring at no extra charge!)
- Newcastle, Port Stephens & Central Coast: Easily add a Return Transport Charge from our Optional Extras when booking online.
- Sydney Transfers: We do not offer same-day return trips to Sydney. If you require Sydney transfers, your pick-up date must be different to your drop-off date. Simply select the Sydney Return Transport Charge from our Optional Extras.
*Please note: A Public Holiday Surcharge applies on public holiday calendar days.
Useful Timing Considerations
- On average each wine tasting takes 1 hour.
- Lunch bookings 2-2.5 hours.
- 30-40 minutes each for chocolate & cheese tastings.
- 30-40 minutes each for brewery & distillery tastings.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- When booking, if you chose to pay booking deposit payment of 50% only. Then the balance 50% payment will be due 72 hours before the actual tour commences. All booking must be paid in full for the tour to commence.
- Additional charge of $2.5 per km applies for any pick ups and drop offs outside "Free Pick Up Zone"
Free pick up zone – Cessnock, Nulkaba, Pokolbin and Lovedale areas. - No open alcoholic beverages allowed in the car.
- If the car gets dirty due to any spills or unfortunate event of sickness. Cleaning fees of $260 will apply, which will be charged at the event.
- All bookings must be paid in full for the tour or transfer to commence.
- Your tour timing starts at your first tasting destination/venue. The tour timing ends after you finish your last tasting. For Instance, if you have booked a full day tour from 10am till 5pm then you can book your first tasting at 10am and your last tasting to be finished by 5pm. Your pickup & drop off back times from accommodation are outside/external of your itinerary tasting hours. We usually allow 15 to 30 minutes for the pickup & drop off times depending on your accommodation location. Extra charge applies only for pick ups & drop off outside free pick up & drop off zones.
- Booked/confirmed itinerary must be provided at least 24 hours prior to the booked tour timing for the DYO Tour to commence.
- Once booked this price cannot be changed case of any changes to the original booking. For instance post booking changes to number of passengers, changes to pick up and drop off locations.
- For all DYO Tours, it is the responsibility of the customer to stick to the itinerary schedule/timings and allow for travel time between venues.
- Please check with the driver if you are running over the booked times on the day. We do have consecutive bookings, other commitments and need to stick close to booked timings. If possible, any additional time to the total booked hours will be charged @$50 per 30 minutes. This can be paid in cash to the driver on the day or can be transferred into our bank details on the website.
