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.
