Lovedale Long Lunch Wine Walk
Walk the Lovedale Road wine corridor for the Hunter Valley's most concentrated cellar door experience — the Lovedale Long Lunch festival each May fills this quiet road with music, food, and exceptional wine.
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Lovedale Road Entry
Lovedale Road is the Hunter Valley's most peaceful wine corridor — a quiet country road lined with vineyards and cellar doors away from the main Pokolbin tourist circuit.
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Tatler Wines
Tatler Wines is a boutique producer known for Verdelho and aged Semillon — the small cellar door is run by the family whose grandfather planted the estate vines in the 1960s.
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Scarborough Wine Co
Scarborough Wine Co is famous for Chardonnay and the family's commitment to older vine Semillon — the yellow label Chardonnay has been one of the Hunter Valley's most awarded whites for two decades.
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Lovedale Long Lunch Site
The Lovedale Long Lunch festival transforms this road each May — cellar doors host matched food and wine lunches across the weekend, and the event has become the Hunter Valley's most beloved annual celebration.
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Drayton's Family Wines
Drayton's is one of the Hunter Valley's oldest family wineries — the Drayton family has been growing vines on this estate since 1853, and their cellar door still reflects the honest, unpretentious character of old Hunter Valley.
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Lovedale Vineyard Picnic
Several Lovedale estates offer picnic hampers to be enjoyed among the vines — sitting in a vineyard with a glass of aged Semillon and local cheese is the Hunter Valley at its most relaxed and authentic.