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    NSW | Hunter Valley | Exclusive Gourmet Food & Wine Experience Tour
    4 Nights - 5 Days
    Indulge your senses, discover new delights as we Live Like a Local in The Hunter Valley with Jo Bowskill, chef, vigneron and foodie.

    Jo has brought together a curated selection of unbookable experiences for the ultimate gourmet wine and food lover. Bringing together some of the best things in life, all set against the backdrop of the picturesque Hunter Valley. We'll have access to behind the scenes agriculture, brewing, blending, distilling, fermenting and cooking techniques. Rub shoulders and share a meal and stories with award winning chefs, vignerons and winemakers.

    For 4 nights we stay at the beautiful Thistle Hill Guesthouse, a French Provincial boutique hotel on a working vineyard in the heart of Pokolbin.
    This is a small boutique experience, so don't delay in reserving your spot today.
    What's Included? Tour Highlights

    What's Included?

    Tour Highlights

    What's Included?

    What's Included?

    • 4 Nights’ accommodation at Thistle Hill Guesthouse, twin share
    • Transport around the Hunter Valley whilst on tour
    • All Meals
    • Wine with lunch and dinner
    • Tasting fess
    • Workshops and classes
    • Entry fees
    • Barista coffees

    **Transfer options available from Newcastle, Sydney and Port Macquarie at additional cost.

     

    Tour Highlights

    Tour Highlights

    • Disgorge Methode Traditionelle Champagne
    • ‘Picnic in the Sky’ at privately owned Kawal Rock followed by spirits tasting
    • Edible walking tour and lunch at the Darkside Providore farm
    • Barrel, new release and just bottled wine tastings.
    • Private chocolate tasting
    • Rub shoulders with wine makers and locals alike at The Deck Cafe degustation dinner
    • Onsite, customised ‘Jac and Jones’ tasting
    • River Flat’s River Flats olive and handmade soaps experience
    • McCafferys wine tasting and blending
    • Lavender farm tour
    • Mozzarella making class
    • Italian cooking demonstration and dinner
    • Hands on Vigneron experience – grape harvesting, trimming or tying the vines – as seasonal experience!
    • Be a winemaker for a day – blend your own bottle of wine to take home
    • Charcuterie tasting at the hottest butchery in town!
    Valid for travel
    11 - 15 August 2024, further dates available for individual bookings, please enquire.
    Offer expires
    30 Nov 2024 unless sold prior

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    * Conditions

    All tours and arrangements are covered by both TravelManagers Australia Terms & Conditions

    And the terms and conditions of our tour operator

    Subject to availability at the time of booking and deposit being received

    Travel insurance is highly recommended

     

    Pricing based on set number of participants.

    If minimum numbers aren’t met you may be offered a place on standard tour at retail pricing.

    Single Supplement $600 per person