The Hunter Valley Grains & Grapes Tour takes you on a delicious wine, cheese and spirits tour with lunch just a few hours north of Sydney! What makes this tour the ultimate Hunter trip, is you have the option to also taste some local beer at a few stops OR you can keep on the wines and add some chocolate too! The Grains & Grapes has everyone’s tastes covered!
Asides from all the beautiful wines, tasty beers and hand crafted produce, Dave’s works hard to take you behind the scenes of the production houses to meet the makers and get a true sense of the region. We’ll always include a tour of a vineyard, winery or both on our tours.
Dave’s also tries to only visit small family run wineries so our guests get to meet and chat with locals and really appreciate and understand what goes into what they are tasting. As we are visiting small producers, our tour vehicles are usually between 12 and 22 seats (including the driver).
The Dave’s love the Hunter Valley and we want to show you the BEST of the region with tours departing DAILY from Sydney.
Sample Itinerary
This is an example of what we usually do, but we can’t guarantee it’s exactly this way each time. If you are travelling with someone who doesn’t want beer, they do not have to drink any at all, beer is optional at lunch and one winery stop on the day.
We’ll head out of Sydney early and we usually include a comfort stop on our way to The Valley.
At our first winery, your ‘Dave for the day’ will take you on a guided tour of a vineyard, winery production area or both. After you’ve learnt a little it’s time to drink a little with our first wine tasting.
Lunch is often at a winery and the second stop, but we use a number of venues. We do find a shared lunch or excellent wood fired pizzas, salads and a drink gets the conversation going! For your drink you can choose beer, wine or soft drink.
After lunch, we’ll visit a local family distillery’s cellar door for some gin, vodka and liqueur tasting. It’s a perfect post-lunch perk up!
The second official wine tasting of the day (we don’t count the wine you drink at lunch as a tasting) will be complimented with local cheeses. Your server will direct you to which wine matches best with which cheese.
The final stop, you have the choice to enjoy a wine and chocolate pairing or you can try a paddle of locally made craft beers.
Once we’ve finished the last tasting and loaded the bus with all the tasty treats you’ve purchased, it’s a swift drive back to Sydney…with some singing, or snoozing!
