Hunter Valley

We awoke at 7AM after a night of drinking cheap boxed wine, known as goon here in the land of aussies. We took a 2-2.5 hr bus drive out to Hunter Valley, the area outside of Sydney which is known for its wineries. Our first winery was Ernest Hill, a small family run boutique winery. You can't buy their wine anywhere other than the winery, in any stores. You can only buy it at the winery store there. We tried several different kinds of wine and learned a little bit about each. The guy who was explaining the process and the wines was actually the owner of the winery. He and his son opened the winery not too long ago and it is a family run one today. Afterward we went to Tempus Two winery. This winery was a lot larger and seemed more commercial than Ernest Hill. We tried several kinds of wine here as well, but the service was not as good or friendly. You could tell this seemed to be a much more commercial winery that did not rely on the tourist buisness for income. Also at Tempus Two was the Smelly Cheese store. The cheeses here were absolutely amazing and any hangover that anyone had by this point was gone. We tried all kinds of cheese, some feta, some of this, a little of that. ya know. It was then lunch time. We were all excited for this. We went to a small little village looking area where we had lunch at Oscar's. In this little area was a fudge place as well. You can bet we hit that up! They also had a wine cellar here to, we didn't really try any wines here because we were walking around most of the time. But the wine cellar also had some beers from all over the world. Even some Miller Chill! haha. We all loaded back on the bus to go to our next winery. I forget the name of it. Some irish thing Mcgiggles or something. This one was pretty cool, but again seemed to be a lot more commercial. After Mcwiggles we went to Calais, another family owned and run one. The wine was alright here but the setting was so comfortable. They had a nice small bar with a fireplace at the end of the room and just really comfortable. This is when everyone started to show their drunkness. After a few more glasses of wine and a few more pictures we loaded up to go back to our beloved Sydney.


PS. I just got the pictures from my skydiving trip so here is a taste of that: