The Hunter Valley’s Around Hermitage Wine and Food Trail is where matching food and wine in a relaxed setting is a wonderful experience. With the backdrop of the Brokenback Mountains the Trail boasts some of the best scenery and the most awarded Hunter Valley wineries and restaurants that the region has to offer. For a casual dining experience, you’ll find a number of bistros and cafes or head to one of the deli’s and try locally grown olives, artisan chocolates, cheeses and other delights. Visit an artisan brewery and a distillery producing a range of vodkas and gins. Taste With Us!
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The Mill Restaurant
Tantalise your senses with blended culinary delights! The modern Australian menu is a minimum two-course order with choices to delight and please everyone’s taste, from ‘gourmet foodies’ to ‘traditional eats’. Catering for all special dietary requirements
Peppers Creek Chapel and Barrel Room
Peppers Creek Chapel and Barrel Room offers all the romance and charm of a European Country Wedding. What could be more ideal than combining both your ceremony and reception at the same venue?
Hunter Distillery
Hunter Distillery Cellar Door is open 7 days a week, 10am – 5pm. We make and sell top shelf spirits, including Gin, Vodka, Liqueurs and Schnapps.
Wombat Crossing Vineyard
Visit us and enjoy an unhurried, personalized sit-down tasting of our award winning single vineyard wines. Taste our vineyard in the glass.
Degen Vineyard and Cellar Door
Experience the uniqueness of DEGEN premium 100% Hunter Valley single vineyard wine in every glass! Semillon, elegant Chardonnay and Shiraz made in French Oak, sold exclusively from our cellar door.
EXP Restaurant
At EXP. our aim is to create a dining EXP.erience that is lively, interactive and fun, it should capture all of the senses and leave a lasting memory for each guest.
Ironbark Hill Brewhouse
The Hunter Valley’s newest Craft Beer Brewhouse, at Peter Drayton Wines. Featuring 8 beers on tap which are all brewed on site, as well as a restaurant.
Piggs Peake Winery
The wines are distinctly different, with a firm focus on food friendly, innovative styles and huge reds. Open 7 days.
Tintilla Estate – Produce
Come and enjoy a Hunter Valley Cheese platter with a glass of wine on our deck or sample our Vinegar, Vincotto, Verjuice, Relish’s, Olives & Olive Oils or Tapenade.
Yellow Billy Restaurant
Open Now at Piggs Peake!
FOOD OVER FIRE, DESIGNED TO SHARE.
Mistletoe Winery
Mistletoe Winery is not just a "Cellar Door", it is a genuine working winery and vineyard with all wine being made on site, our guiding principle being, “Quality without compromise”.
Matilda Bay Brewhouse and Dining
This is where the amazing Bluetongue Brewery story began back in 2001. Now known as the Matilda Bay Brewhouse Hunter Valley, only a glass wall separates you from the original brewhouse.
RidgeView Wines
RidgeView is a family owned, boutique producer of award-winning, estate grown wines. We produce premium 100% Hunter Valley wines that are approachable whilst young, yet develop character with cellaring.
Oakvale Wines
We are proud to be one of the oldest working wineries in the Hunter and are passionate about producing premium handcrafted wines that reflect both the region and our uncompromising approach to winemaking.
Hermitage Road Cellars and Winery
49 wines from 10 local producers. Nowhere in the Hunter can you try so many wines all under the one roof.
Two Fat Blokes Gourmet Kitchen
We've Moved! New temporary location at Harkham Wines 266 De Beyers Road.
Perfect for a casual breakfast or lunch serving an amazing fresh range of local, Australian and International gourmet food. The Euro-deli has a wide range of cheeses, deli meats and gifts.
Brokenback Bar
Good Food Good Wine & Good Times!
The Brokenback Bar is styled to a tapas bar and wood-fired pizza menu, stop in for coffee and something sweet or indulge in the Movenpick ice cream cart.
Misty Glen Wines
Visit Misty Glen and try some of our fabulous wines in a relaxed atmosphere amongst the vines. Enjoy our wines with a sumptuous meal or simply when relaxing on the verandah.
Glandore Estate Wines
Glandore Estate is one of the must visit cellar doors in the Hunter Valley, known as a great way to experience not only wines from the Hunter but also from around NSW.
Restaurant Botanica
Restaurant Botanica is focused on seasonality and freshness, complemented by an award-winning wine list and stunning views of the mountain range and onsite vineyard. Join us in the restaurant, veranda or private dining room.
Muse Kitchen
Muse Kitchen is a regional European Bistro style restaurant that is situated in the Keith Tulloch Wines courtyard. Muse Kitchen is busy, fun and relaxed.
Scarborough on Hermitage
Scarborough on Hermitage is another home for Scarborough Wine Co. This bright, modern space is one of the Hunter Valley's most exciting venues and offers a unique tasting experience.
Pokolbin Estate Vineyard
Belebula Vineyard, located on Old North Road in Pokolbin, was planted in 1999 to Tempranillo, Sangiovese and Nebbiolo, on a geological formation known as the Belford Dome of Limestone.
Black Creek Farm – Thélème Wines
Black Creek Farm - Thélème Wines is a family owned french provincial inspired Cellar Door, located only minutes from the heart of Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley.
Worthington’s Vineyard
The Worthington Family specialise in single vineyard wines that truly reflect the seasonality and terroir of the Hunter.
Keith Tulloch Wine
Keith Tulloch wines are hand-made with meticulous care, and epitomise the qualities of a boutique Hunter Valley wine company. We invite you to visit us and enjoy the whole KTW experience.
De Iuliis Wines
Grape varieties include - Shiraz, Semillon, Chardonnay, Verdelho, Merlot, Sangiovese, Tempranillo, Touriga Nacional, Cabernet Sauvignon. We also make Sparkling Wine, Late Picked Semillon and Rose.
Hunters Dream
Visit our newly opened cellar door and enjoy tasting some of the Hunter's finest award winning wines. Linger a while, relax in a comfy arm chair and absorb the magic of the estate from the panoramic full ceiling window.
RidgeView Restaurant
Using outstanding local produce, RidgeView offers a mouth-watering selection of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern inspired dishes, designed to be shared and enjoyed alongside our award-winning estate made wines.
Our Italian Table
Located in the beautiful Nicita Estate on Mistletoe Lane. Our Italian Table offers cooking experiences, Italian long lunches and twilight dinners amongst the vines with gorgeous views.
Rothvale Vineyard and Winery
Discover the ‘true spirit’ of the Hunter Valley at our family operated boutique winery. We produce award winning classics of Semillon, Chardonnay, Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon from vines first planted in the 1970s.
Peter Drayton Wines
Peter Drayton Wines at Ironbark Hill Vineyard is home to a Cellar Door, Craft Beer Brewhouse, Chapel and Function Room, as well as on-site Accommodation - all on the one property.
James Estate Wines
The James Estate Cellar Door, on Hermitage Road, at Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley, is wonderfully accessible from Sydney and Newcastle.
Red Door Collective Estate
RDC Estate is one of the smallest producers of wine in the Hunter Valley, producing high quality single vineyard wines.
Eclectic Wines
The newest cellar door in Australia's oldest wine region, offering benchmark wine styles of the Hunter and other key wine regions. Our cellar is small and intimate made from Sandstone and old Bridge Timbers.
Macquariedale Organic Wines
Macquariedale produces certified organic/biodynamic, low sulphur wines made naturally using wild yeast. Our philosophy encompasses looking after the land, ourselves, and our customers in the most sustainable way.
Thomas Wines
Specialising in single-vineyard Semillon & Shiraz. Hunter Valley Cellar Door of the Year 2017.
Tintilla Estate Vineyard and Olive Grove
Tintilla Estate is passionate about producing distinctive, hand made, boutique, single vineyard wines with personality, balance and structure that you can enjoy and which reflect the Hunter terroir.