Hunter Valley Wine School

Net A$50.00 per person

Hunter Resort – Hunter Valley offers the total "Winery Experience". The on site winery is by far the largest, and most advanced in the Hunter Valley. The Wine Tasting Cellars are open everyday to try the fruits of their labour... Crushing some 6.500 tonnes of grapes each year, the winery produces around 6 million litres of wine.

Not to be missed is the daily comprehensive winery tour to experience how wine is actually made... right from the grapevine to bottle!

The two-hour Hunter Valley Wine School promises an education of wine. Walk through the vineyard and learn how and why a grapevine grows.

Then it’s off to the crusher, and into the Winery. See the huge vats, the Potter Tanks, the filtration equipment, and the largest Rotovat in the Hunter. From there, the tour then moves through into the Cask Hall, and on into the Wine Tasting Cellars.

Then there is the structured wine tutorial. 
Where is wine made? 
What is its history? 
What are the grape varieties? 
How are they different? 
What does one look for, the bouquet, taste, and colour?

Excursion

Hermitage Road Winery inspection
– Winemaking technology

Tutorial

• Hunter Valley Wine Country
• Historical
• Contemporary
• Australia
• The world

Wine Assessment 

• Colour
• Bouquet
• Palate
• Australian Wine Show judging system
• Wine faults

Wine styles

• Sparkling wines
• White wines
• Red wines
• Dessert wines
• Fortified wines

Palate evaluation

• Varietal white wines
• Varietal red wines
• Blending exercise