The vines under the Brokenback Range, the cellar doors the tours stop at,
and what a tasting actually looks like when you get there.
Sunrise over the Hunter Valley vine rows with the ranges dark on the horizonThe Brokenback Range rising behind a Pokolbin vineyard under a blue winter skyA visitor standing between the vine rows as the sky burns orange over the Hunter ValleyThree Thomas Wines bottles and three poured glasses of Hunter Valley red at a cellar door tastingA tour group around a long timber table on a cellar door verandah above the vinesA host leading a seated tasting at a long table in a Hunter Valley barrel hallA barrel hall set with round tables and chandeliers for a private Hunter Valley tastingThe sandstone frontage of The Garden Cellars wine and spirits tasting roomThe giant Roche Tallawanta Shiraz bottle standing outside the cellar door at PokolbinBottles displayed on oak barrels in the De Bortoli Wines Hunter Valley cellar doorThe De Bortoli tasting bar, established 1928, with barrel tables and stoolsThe Hunter Valley Wine Country sign and regional map at the visitor information centreA glass of Hunter Valley red resting on a timber table at a cellar door
See it for yourself
Guided Hunter Valley Wine tours reach the cellar doors in these photographs, with the tasting fees already covered.