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Hunter Valley Wine and Cheese Tasting Day Tour from Sydney

A private Hunter Valley day tour to three genuinely historic wineries — Draytons 1853, Tyrrells 1858, and Audrey Wilkinson 1866.

Private tour — just your group 10 hours Up to 25 guests Free itinerary changes Local expert guide
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Overview

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.

Highlights

  • Three Real Historic Wineries Draytons, Tyrrells, and Audrey Wilkinson, each genuinely 19th-century.
  • Real Cheese Tasting Paired with the wine tastings.
  • Private, Full Day 10 hours, just your group.

What Stops Does This Tour Make?

A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.

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Pickup

Hotel pickup anywhere in Sydney.

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Three Real Historic Wineries

Draytons, Tyrrells, and Audrey Wilkinson, each genuinely 19th-century.

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Real Cheese Tasting

Paired with the wine tastings.

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Private, Full Day

10 hours, just your group.

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Drop-off

Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.

What's Included

A private vehicle and driver, just for your group
A professional, knowledgeable local guide
Door-to-door pickup and drop-off
A fully customizable itinerary built around you
All tolls, parking, and fuel

What's Not Included

Attraction admission tickets, unless noted as included
Meals and snacks
Gratuities for your guide or driver
Personal expenses

Why Book a Private Tour With Voyzo?

Your group only — never combined with strangers
Crowded 50+ seat group buses
Fully custom stops, built around you
A fixed script with no flexibility
Door-to-door pickup, wherever you're staying
Meeting at a fixed public meeting point
Direct, transparent pricing — no marketplace markup
Third-party booking fees

Important Information

Know Before You Book

  • Group size can range from 1 to 25 guests — we match the vehicle to your party.
  • Pricing depends on group size, vehicle, and tour length, and is confirmed after your quote request.
  • Tour duration is flexible — the times shown are a typical starting point.

Know Before You Go

  • We'll confirm your exact pickup time and vehicle details after booking.
  • Bring a camera, comfortable shoes, and weather-appropriate layers.
  • Your pickup address is required to finalize the itinerary.

Special Requests

  • Mobility needs, dietary notes, or accessibility requirements? Let us know when requesting your quote and we'll arrange accordingly.
  • Traveling with young children or larger groups — just tell us, and we'll recommend the right vehicle.

Frequently Asked Questions

Genuinely historic — founded 1853, 1858, and 1866.
Yes, for your group only.
Draytons was founded in 1853 by English immigrant Joseph Drayton; Tyrrell's in 1858 by Edward Tyrrell, on an estate he named Ashmans; and Audrey Wilkinson's vineyard, originally named Oakdale, was established in 1866 by Frederick Wilkinson, later named for his son Audrey, who ran the property from age fifteen.
Once your quote is accepted, we'll confirm your exact pickup time, vehicle, and driver details by email ahead of your tour date.
Yes — reach out to our team any time before your tour and we'll do our best to accommodate itinerary or schedule changes.

About This Tour

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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