Wine Country TV Vintage Report 2019
Pup and Simon visit a “Hunter’s Aqua Dream” and get taken for a ride. Bob gets the vintage 2019 report straight from the winemaker’s palate.
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Pup and Simon visit a “Hunter’s Aqua Dream” and get taken for a ride. Bob gets the vintage 2019 report straight from the winemaker’s palate.
A great night at FLiCKERFEST Hunter Valley Saturday 4 May 2019 Fantastic wines, food and films! Showcasing wines and beer from the Around Hermitage Wine and Food Trail Misty Glen Wines & Cottage, Tintilla Estate, Macquariedale Organic Wines, Glandore Estate Wines, Wombat Crossing Vineyard, IronBark Hill Brewhouse, RidgeView, Hart and Hunter, Black Creek Theleme Wines, …
For: art, craft, theatre lovers, photographers, film goers and the curious Cost: entrance fees or ticket prices for performances, some free Around Hermitage Wine, Food and Film Festival: Annual event growing in popularity Singleton Annual Art Prize and Exhibition: The Rotary Club of Singleton on Hunter holds the Yancoal Singleton Art Prize, a painting and…
For the photographer, walker, adventurer/road trips Free 1. Greater Blue Mountains National Park The Hunter Valley is conjoined with the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area which is one of the largest and most intact tracts of protected bushland in Australia. This deeply incised sandstone tableland covers over 1 million hectares spread across 8 adjacent…
I often think the patchwork nature, small holdings, and landscape of the Pokolbin and Broke Fordwich wine subregions is similar to Burgundy. Indeed there is a move afoot to get Heritage recognition for some of the old vineyards that have survived and, given that we are a phylloxera free area, these vines are unique growing…
It is easy to be wild about The Hunter Valley! There are examples of nature’s resilience all around, and one of the features of a visit is that you can see wildlife amongst the gum trees. There are the easy to spot kangaroos freely found throughout the area without going to a national park, some…
There is much history to see and enjoy around Wine Country and our environs: from aboriginal art of state significance, to convict trails and early settler’s relics, buildings and townships, to industrial beginnings within our wine, and mining communities. The following is a brief snapshot of some sites you can visit and is a guide…
Not enjoying the humidity that comes with a Hunter Summer? Well, you may not know it, but the vines are – not so much the risk of mildew infection, which we spray to avoid, but the protection the humidity gives them stopping them from drying out and shriveling. One key reason the enhanced flavours from…
At a recent family celebration, I opened a bottle of Grand Cru Classe wine bought in Saint Emilion back in 1979! It was a Tertre Daugay 1964 and to our great surprise, it was still a very sound wine with those wonderful characteristics of an aged Merlot. Now you probably haven’t heard of this wine…
‘From grape to glass’ to quote Pup Neeley as she summed up winemaker James Lusby’s description of the importance of the vineyard in making exceptional wines. In the run-up to our Around Hermitage First Release Wine Week, we have been conducting interviews and making short video’s with the men and women involved with the dozen…