A private Hunter Valley day tour to three genuinely historic wineries — Draytons 1853, Tyrrells 1858, and Audrey Wilkinson 1866.
A private tour for your group only, to three real historic Hunter Valley wineries — Draytons (1853), Tyrrells (1858), and Audrey Wilkinson (1866) — with genuine cheese tasting.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real named historic wineries visited include Draytons (founded 1853), Tyrrells (founded 1858), and Audrey Wilkinson (founded 1866), with genuine cheese tasting alongside the wine.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup anywhere in Sydney.
Draytons, Tyrrells, and Audrey Wilkinson, each genuinely 19th-century.
Paired with the wine tastings.
10 hours, just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, to three real historic Hunter Valley wineries — Draytons (1853), Tyrrells (1858), and Audrey Wilkinson (1866) — with genuine cheese tasting. This is a private tour for your group only. Real named historic wineries visited include Draytons (founded 1853), Tyrrells (founded 1858), and Audrey Wilkinson (founded 1866), with genuine cheese tasting alongside the wine.
The three wineries this tour visits are genuinely among the oldest working vineyards in the Hunter Valley, itself Australia's first commercial wine region. Joseph Drayton, an English immigrant from Lincolnshire, arrived in the colony and acquired 80 acres of land in the Hunter Valley in 1853, planting the vines that became Draytons Family Wines, still family-owned six generations later. Edward Tyrrell founded what became Tyrrell's in 1858, naming his 320-acre property "Ashmans" and hand-building a slab hut from ironbark that still stands beside the winery today; the estate's first vintage was in 1864, and a block planted in 1879 is still in production. Audrey Wilkinson's vineyard, originally named "Oakdale," was the first planted in the Parish of Pokolbin in 1866, chosen by Frederick Wilkinson after he trained for several years in the wine regions of Burgundy and Alsace; it later took its name from his son Audrey, who ran the property from the age of fifteen.
That depth of history traces back to the Hunter's very first plantings in the early 1820s along the Hunter River, and to pioneers like James Busby, who returned from Europe in 1832 with hundreds of vine cuttings that helped establish varieties still grown across the valley today — a two-century winemaking tradition this tour moves through three distinct, genuinely 19th-century chapters of.
Pairing real cheese tasting alongside the wine at each stop is a well-established way to taste a wine's structure and tannin more clearly — a cheese's fat and protein content changes how tannin and acidity are perceived on the palate, which is a large part of why wine-and-cheese pairing has become such a standard format at wine regions worldwide, the Hunter Valley included.
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