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Hunter Valley Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide
Lovedale
Important Information
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Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Service animals allowed
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Drive the Hunter Valley yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks Australia's oldest wine region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Cessnock, Pokolbin, Broke or Lovedale — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 84 narrated stories cover 62 cellar doors and the people behind them: as you roll into Pokolbin you'll hear how James Busby stepped ashore in the 1820s carrying vine cuttings gathered across France and Spain, and how every Australian wine region that followed traces its genetics back to that single act. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for...
Highlights
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Cellar-door narration for Tyrrell's, Brokenwood, Audrey Wilkinson and Tulloch
Email and in-app chat support
Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
GPS audio tour of the Hunter Valley with stories playing automatically at each stop
Buy once, no expiry, with free content and audio updates for life
In-app map with every winery, village and lookout pinned
Trip planner to build and reorder your own route
One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
Regional chapters on James Busby, Hunter Semillon and the founding family dynasties
Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
Food, meals and snacks
Transport - you drive your own car or rental vehicle
Fuel, parking and road tolls
Mobile data or wifi to download the tour before you set out
Meeting Points
Departure
Lovedale
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
Return
Hunter Valley Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide
Lovedale
About
Drive the Hunter Valley yourself, with a GPS audio guide that plays automatically as you go. Your booking unlocks Australia's oldest wine region in the free Wine Trails app: pick your date and starting point — Cessnock, Pokolbin, Broke or Lovedale — choose the cellar doors you want, and the app builds your personal route with turn-by-turn narration. 84 narrated stories cover 62 cellar doors and the people behind them: as you roll into Pokolbin you'll hear how James Busby stepped ashore in the 1820s carrying vine cuttings gathered across France and Spain, and how every Australian wine region that followed traces its genetics back to that single act. No group, no schedule, no guide — pause for...
Highlights
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 4 hours to 9 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Cellar-door narration for Tyrrell's, Brokenwood, Audrey Wilkinson and Tulloch
Email and in-app chat support
Complete offline download - audio, maps and route stored on your phone
GPS audio tour of the Hunter Valley with stories playing automatically at each stop
Buy once, no expiry, with free content and audio updates for life
In-app map with every winery, village and lookout pinned
Trip planner to build and reorder your own route
One purchase covers everyone in the vehicle
Regional chapters on James Busby, Hunter Semillon and the founding family dynasties
Wine tastings and cellar-door tasting fees (paid directly at each winery)
Food, meals and snacks
Transport - you drive your own car or rental vehicle
Fuel, parking and road tolls
Mobile data or wifi to download the tour before you set out
Meeting Points
Departure
Lovedale
These are self-guided wine tours, so these are just where a user can drive in from. The user can start from wherever they are at.
Return
Itinerary
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Cessnock
The gateway town to the Lower Hunter and the default starting point for the drive.
30 minutes
2
Pokolbin
The heart of the Lower Hunter - a plateau of deep red volcanic basalt sheltered by the Brokenback Range, and Shiraz country.
30 minutes
3
Tyrrell's Wines
Edward Tyrrell bought this Broke Road block in 1858; his great-grandson Murray made Australia's first great varietal Chardonnay, Vat 47, here.
30 minutes
4
Brokenwood Wines
Founded on McDonalds Road in 1970 by wine writer James Halliday and a group of Sydney friends, and home of the Graveyard Vineyard Shiraz.
30 minutes
5
Audrey Wilkinson Vineyard
De Beyers Road cellar door and one of the benchmark labels named for long-term Hunter Semillon cellaring.
30 minutes
6
Drayton's Family Wines
One of the Hunter's founding family dynasties, still pouring on Oakey Creek Road in Pokolbin.
30 minutes
7
Tulloch Wines
Another of the Hunter's enduring family names, on De Beyers Road in Pokolbin.
30 minutes
8
Keith Tulloch Wine
Hermitage Road producer whose Semillon is among the labels to seek out for cellaring.
30 minutes
9
Zinc-clad, angular cellar door founded in 1998 by Lisa McGuigan as a deliberately modern take on Hunter wine.
30 minutes
10
Hunter Valley Gardens
Forty hectares of eight themed gardens in Pokolbin, created by Bob and Sally Oatley in the 1990s.
30 minutes
11
Margan
Milbrodale Road estate in Broke, where lighter alluvial soils give Semillon of exceptional finesse.
30 minutes
12
Lovedale
Quiet transition-zone country north of Pokolbin, producing elegant Semillon and Chardonnay and home of the May Lovedale Long Lunch.
