Geo: -32.771, 151.303An early Virgin flight into Williamstown where we picked up a Thrifty hire car - a Mitsubishi SUV.It was an easy 50min drive on the new expressway into Pokolbin. While checking out the visitor centre we signed up for the Hunter Wine Selectors periodic wine deliveries. Then to Tyrrell's for a wine tour and tasting, an excellent lunch at the Muse Kitchen at Keith Tulloch's Winery, tasting again at Pepper Tree and Lambloch, and a mousse tasting at the new Sabor chocolatier on Broke Rd. Picked up some groceries at the Hunter Valley Gardens shops and then checked in to Wyndham at Leisure Inn around 4pm.We learned that a French oak tree grows for 120 years before felling, and typically one tree produces only two 225l barrels! The canny French have been planting four
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