Sights And Attractions

All that separates you from the brewery is a glass wall behind the contemporary bar where guests enjoy the relaxed atmosphere including a pool table. Many styles of beer are available including the unique Alcoholic Ginger Beer, and the sensational premium Lager.

Address: Hunter Resort, Hermitage Road, Pokolbin, NSW, 2320

In international terms, ballooning in Australia is almost incredibly cheap. Visitors from around the world treasure memories of their dawn flight over the vineyards - an event carried out with both precision and due ceremony and including a champagne breakfast and the guarantee of airborne sightings of the Hunter’s resident wild kangaroo population.

Hunter Valley Gardens - mecca for coach tours as well as individual visitors - will ultimately house a further 20 speciality retailers, boutiques, galleries,craft and produce stores. The complex already hosts Roche Wines and its attendant 16 hectare vineyard and the newly refurbished Harrigan’s Irish Pub.

Address: Cr Broke and McDonalds Roads, Pokolbin, NSW

This centre is the workplace of resident Japanese glassblower and artist, Setsuko Ogishi. The centre combines Setsuko’s own studio with a gallery offering examples of her work as well as those by local and international jewellers, potters, textile designers/weavers and painters.

Address: Cr Branxton and Wilderness Roads, Rothbury, NSW

The Great North Road linking Sydney with the then newly settled Hunter Valley was Australia’s first major engineering project and the largest attempted during the l9th century.