Over the weekend gone by we visited The Hunter Valley and enjoyed tasting some of the wines of the region at the Mc Guigan's Winery. It was fun to be tasting different wines and enjoying the flavours on the pallete. We followed it up with a guided tour into the vinification process from a visit to the grape vines in the vineyards to the crushing, fermentation, ageing & blending process.
We followed it up with Cheese tasting and tasted different cheeses from the soft cheeses to the blue vein cheeses. It was fun.
Lunch was sandwiches with ham & fresh cheese from the cheese factory shop & vegetable burgers for mum. We had lunch at the Hunter Valley Village Gardens followed by a short nap in the park and then tried a hand at Aquagolf. It was really cool to be hitting balls into the water instead on the greens. Arjun would've won all the prizes had he been here!
We made some fresh tea on our stove and then went on to try out the chocolates at The Chocolate factory shop. Kanika bought some chocolate & English toffee fudge.
Yujita & Dad went on to try a few more wines and I helped myself to a nice offer on a case of Bin 3000 Merlot. Dad & Yujita then went to try out some champagnes and brought back a couple of bottles of bubbly wine for the cellar at home. Hic ..hic hooray..
It was a nice two hour drive back home and a day well spent!
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