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Frommer's Australia from $50 a Day 13th Edition - To Parent Directory

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Oakvale<br />

Winery<br />

Hermitage Rd.<br />

Hunter Estate<br />

Winery<br />

Lindemans Hunter<br />

River Winery<br />

Information i<br />

Winery<br />

0<br />

0 5 km<br />

Tinklers<br />

Broke Rd.<br />

Tyrrells<br />

Peppers Guest<br />

House<br />

McWilliams Mount<br />

Pleasant Winery<br />

5 mi<br />

Deaseys Rd.<br />

Pokolbin<br />

McDonald Rd.<br />

Petersons<br />

Ol<br />

d<br />

Palmers<br />

Hermitage<br />

Lodge<br />

Gillards<br />

North Rd .<br />

Rd.<br />

McGuigan<br />

Hunter Village<br />

McGuigan<br />

Bros.<br />

Winery<br />

Tamburlaine<br />

Winery<br />

Oakey Creek Rd.<br />

Drayton<br />

Family Wines<br />

Marrow Bone Rd.<br />

Branxton<br />

Lane<br />

<br />

82<br />

The Convent<br />

Pepper Tree<br />

<strong>To</strong> Barrington <strong>To</strong>ps<br />

National Park<br />

Rothbury<br />

Estate<br />

Winery<br />

Carriages<br />

Guest House<br />

Mount View<br />

Estate<br />

Mount View Rd.<br />

Bimbadeen Rd.<br />

Bimbadeen Rd.<br />

Rd.<br />

Rothbury<br />

Debeyers Rd.<br />

O'Connors<br />

Oakey Cr. Rd.<br />

132<br />

<strong>To</strong> Ellalong<br />

<br />

Hunter Valley<br />

Wine Society<br />

Cessnock<br />

Airstrip<br />

Mount View Rd.<br />

Petersons<br />

Champagne<br />

House<br />

Rd.<br />

82<br />

i<br />

Vincent St.<br />

Wollombi Rd.<br />

W ilderness<br />

Rd.<br />

Lovedale Rd.<br />

Vineyard Hill<br />

Country Motel<br />

Lomas Lane<br />

Nulkaba<br />

The Hunter Valley<br />

Maitland Rd.<br />

Cessnock<br />

Cessnock Heritage Inn<br />

Aberdare St.<br />

0 250 Mi<br />

0 250 Km<br />

Canberra<br />

i<br />

Wine Country<br />

Information<br />

Center<br />

New South Wales<br />

Hunter Valley<br />

Sydney<br />

132<br />

Neath<br />

Neath Rd.<br />

Kearsley<br />

rugged bushland. The vineyards here tend to be larger than those in the south,<br />

and produce more aromatic varieties, such as traminers and Rieslings. February<br />

through March is when the harvest takes place.<br />

The Upper Hunter gives way to the forested heights of the World Heritage–<br />

listed Barrington <strong>To</strong>ps National Park. The park is ruggedly beautiful and home<br />

to some of the highest Antarctic beech trees in the country. It abounds with animals,<br />

including several marsupial species and an abundance of birds.<br />

HUNTER VALLEY ESSENTIALS<br />

GETTING THERE <strong>To</strong> get to the wine-producing regions of the Hunter,<br />

leave Sydney via the Harbour Bridge or Harbour Tunnel and follow the signs for<br />

Newcastle. Just before Hornsby, turn off the highway and head up the National<br />

1/F3 freeway. After around an hour take the Cessnock exit and follow the signs<br />

Tips A Wine-Buying Tip<br />

The best years ever for red wines in this part of <strong>Australia</strong> were 1988 and<br />

2000, when long, hot summers produced fewer, but more intensely flavored,<br />

grapes. Stock up on anything you can find <strong>from</strong> these vintages. At<br />

the other end of the scale, 1997 was a bad year, and 1996, 1999, 2001, and<br />

2002 produced average vintages; 2003 is expected to be outstanding.

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