“IN a major coup for Hunter Valley wine history, the Iris Capital group of Sydney hotelier and developer Sam Arnaout has bought the right to restore the Dalwood name to the Branxton home of Australia’s oldest continuously operating vineyard estate. In a deal negotiated with the Penfold arm of ASX-listed Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) over several months,…
LIBBY & LILS CELEBRATES WITH A GRAND OPENING EVENT Pokolbin NSW – Libby and Lils is proud to announce its grand opening on 2 December 2017. Sue Gleave and Natalie Morley, owners of Libby and Lils, have 15+ years of experience in the Hunter Valley running successful businesses in Holiday Home rentals and Interior Styling.…
A tasting of Hunter Valley Semillons has left W. Blake Gray in a terrible quandary. I probably shouldn’t be writing this story. I don’t actually want you to start buying up older Hunter Valley Semillons. Maybe you should just stop reading right now and stick with white Burgundies. Along those lines, let me quote Sacramento retailer Darrell…
Hunter Valley Gardens’ 2017 Christmas Lights Spectacular gets underway on Friday, November 3 Christmas lights switch on this Friday More than two million lights will be switched on at Hunter Valley Gardens this Friday to signal the beginning of the annual Christmas Lights Spectacular. The Christmas Lights Spectacular debuted in 2007 and has drawn tens…
The 2017 Pier One Sydney Harbour NSW Wine Awards top trophy results were announced yesterday at the gala Presentation Lunch at Pier One Sydney Harbour. 18 trophies in total were handed out to the state’s best wines and winemakers, whilst guests from the wine industry, tourism industries and NSW Government enjoyed a stunning selection of…
With the recent announcement of the reopening of Lindeman’s Ben Ean winery by the McGuigan and Peterson families I thought it might be timely to look again at Henry Lindeman and his family and their great contribution to the Hunter and Australian wines more generally. Ben Ean is shown on Lindemans label Restoring the Ben…
Hunter Valley Wine Country has just taken out Best Food & Wine Region and Favourite Regional Escape at the Australian Traveller awards today in Sydney . Our special People’s Choice Awards issue hits shelves today! Inside you’ll discover all the places that you, our reader, have told us where you’d love to go. From dream destinations to places…
Hunter Valley Wine Country tourism operators are throwing their support behind a major destination marketing campaign worth around $600,000, to encourage more visitors to NSW’s leading wine making region. The Hunter Valley Wine and Tourism Alliance will approach Destination NSW with $300,000 in pledges, and ask it to match the funding dollar-for-dollar, and develop a major destination marketing campaign.…
A huge success for our Hunter Valley restaurateurs at The National Good Food Guide 2018 Awards evening in Sydney this week. Congratulations to Troy Rhoades-Brown with Muse Restaurant’s 2 hats and Muse Kitchen 1 hat. Margan Family Wines Hunter Valley received 1 hat, and Bistro Molines 1 hat. Read more #aroundhermitage #huntervalley #visitnsw #goodfood #foodawards
“A convoy of 30 Porsches will drive from Sydney to Pokolbin via the Putty Road this Sunday to support the state’s largest paediatric centre. The charity drive has been organised by Porsche Centre Parramatta, in aid of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, with 100 per cent of the entry fee to be donated to the…