Live Like A Local

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Live Like A Local offer curated, unbookable experiences for the ultimate gourmet wine and food lover in the Hunter Valley.

Staying at the luxurious French Provincial Guesthouse, Thistle Hill, you will indulge your senses, discover new delights and meet new friends along the way. They’re bringing together some of the best things in life, all set in the backdrop of the picturesque Hunter Valley. They’ll give you access to behind-the-scenes agriculture, brewing, blending, distilling, fermenting and cooking techniques. Rub shoulders and share a meal and stories with award winning chefs, vignerons and winemakers.

They have curated a suite of unbookable experiences for the ultimate gourmet wine and food lover.

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From $1900 to $2100

A curated suite of unbookable experiences for the ultimate gourmet wine and food lover.

They’re bringing together some of the best things in life, all set in the backdrop of the picturesque Hunter Valley. They’ll give you access to behind-the-scenes agriculture, brewing, blending, distilling, fermenting and cooking techniques. Rub shoulders, share a meal and stories with award winning chefs, vignerons and winemakers.

– Disgorge Methode Traditionelle Champagne
– ‘Lunch in the Sky’ at privately owned Kawal Rock
– Edible walking tour and lunch at Darkside Providore farm
– Barrel, new release and just bottled wine tastings
– Private chocolate tasting
– Rub shoulders with wine makers and locals alike at a degustation dinner
– River Flat’s olive experience
– McCaffery’s wine blending
– Mozzarella making class
– Italian cooking demonstration and dinner
– Seasonal hands on Vigneron – grape harvest, trim or tie the vines!
– Winemaker for a day – blend your own bottle of wine to take home
– Charcuterie tasting at the hottest butchery in town!

Even if you have been to the Hunter Valley many times before, take a sneak peek behind the scenes!

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