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Our Legend’s lunch this month featured white wines from Germany and reds from northern Italy, just across the border as it were. We really couldn’t think of any serious reds from Germany! The question was asked as to why it took so long for Italian reds to be appreciated in Australia. It may be that…
Featuring Baiame Cave, Bulga, and the Finchley Aboriginal Cultural Walk, Yengo National Park For indigenous culture, local history, artists and photographers Your visit is free – no charges apply to either site Baiame Cave Painting Bulga No facilities are provided for visitors To get there: Take Welshs Road off Old Bulga Road Milbrodale near Bulga.…
For picnickers, bushwalkers, photographers, bird watchers and those interested in local history- and your dog can come too! Your visit is free – no charges apply Some basic [rustic] facilities are provided for visitors eg BBQs, picnic tables, ‘bush’ toilets 30 mins from Cessnock south via Quorrobolong Rd, Sandy Creek Rd, Heaton Road- then unsealed…
We live in “interesting times” is a quote often mentioned to explain the challenges we face today. Yet it seems to me we live in a time when communities are breaking down and the support that comes with often evaporating. So how lucky are we in the Hunter wine and tourism industry to have a…
We had just arrived at the war-torn Kigali Central Hospital, to join the Australian Medical Support Force, being the second Australian Medical Specialist rotation. Walking down the corridor I was introduced to a young boy with a serious problem. ”We have been keeping him for your arrival, Sir,” the young medical Officer said. He had…
It has been said that what people eat and drink reflects their culture and is emblematic of their country. “Throw another prawn on the barbie” in many ways reflects the easy-going Australian, nature but what we drink has undergone many changes over the years. Our Hunter pioneers, Busby and Lindeman, advocated wine as the way…
Recently Neal Crisford, producer of “Cooking for the Many” a film about Australia’s first cookbook published in 1864, asked me what they would be drinking back then. Now this book was aimed at “the upper 10,000” as well as the “many” so it is fair to guess this largely British colony was following in the…
The settlement of Australia which has received some controversial attention recently was a striking departure from previous patterns of European colonization. Much of the philosophy behind the move to NSW came from the lessons of the Enlightenment, intent on building a new settlement differently. Based on humane principles it was in effect an experiment applying…
“The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it” “Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Brough, a Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse – and Thou beside me singing in the Wilderness – And Wilderness is Paradise…
Wine-Tourism Hunter as I like to call it, rather than the longer version, Hunter Valley Wine and Tourism Association (HVWTA…not to be confused with LB…..) in association with the Cessnock and Singleton Councils ( The Alliance …so to speak) have just announced reaching the $300,000 fundraising pledges target to mount a major marketing campaign with Destination…