There isn't alot to see or do in Newcastle so we booked ourselves on a wine tour. We were warned we might be the only people on the tour as its low season now. We did end up having our own private tour with our personal guide/driver Alan.
We went to 6 vineyards and tasted about 6/7 wines at each (3/4 white and 3 red), a fudge place, a chocolate place and a cheese place. It was fantastic. Alan tried the reds even though he wasn't very keen on them, he did find a nice white verdelho so we bought a bottle. We bought a "beginners" red for him to try with a nice steak.
The vineyard we stopped for lunch at, also specialized in creamy butterscotch schnapps and a chilli schnapps, which is aptly named "dragons breath". I was a little worried about trying a chilli schnapps but it is fantastic, it makes your tongue and lips tingle. So we had to buy a small bottle of that.
As you can imagine we were not exactly sober after tasting all those wines, especially when I did a breathalizer test and found it was 0.12, the limit is 0.02 in OZ. But it was an awesome day out and I had a little snooze on the bus on the way home.
NB - I have found out that Lindemans Reserve Hunter Valley wines are stocked in Majestic Wine stores ( if they are out they will order it for you). There is also a place in Hertfordshire who is selling Sobels wines (one of the vineyards we went too), they do quite a nice white port too. There website is www.wombatwine.com.
I'm not telling you to go out and buy this wine, this information is so if I lose/forget it, I have it written down.
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