Cassegrain Wines — Attraction in Fernbank Creek

Visited over the Easter break and it was nice. Not the best winery I've been to but the wine was decent, prices were good for bottles if you wanted to buy and the staff were friendly.

A few suggestions I'd make in terms of experience for visitors:

Better welcoming for wine tastings etc. We got to the top entrance near the carpark and there was nobody to welcome you or direct you down into where they do the tastings. I wandered in and asked some of the restaurant staff where to go.

Bathrooms could do with a better upkeep. My wife and I both went to use the facilities at one point in the afternoon then decided we'd just wait as it wasn't very nice or clean

We were a few glasses into our tasting (again the staff doing that were lovely) when we were asked to move to the other side of the room. They said they had a big group coming in at 2:30 and needed that side so we said no problem and moved. However, probably would have been good to think ahead and not sit us there just to move us a few mins later. Anyway, no big deal. For the record though, at 3pm, that group had still not come. 3:30 - still not come.

Around then, we had finished our last glass and an older staff member came over to tell us they'd need our table. To clarify - our group of 4 were the only customers in the cellar door and all the other tables throughout were vacant with no one in sight. We decided to go next door to the restaurant as we didn't want to leave yet and noticed when we were leaving about half an hour later, there was still no other customers down there.

Just a bit disappointing to feel like you were being pushed out, especially as we'd recently been to the Hunter where it seemed all of them were saying 'take your time. Relax. Unwind. Take a walk around if you like' when we finished our tastings. We were actually keen to buy a few bottles to enjoy for the rest of the long weekend and take home, but as we didn't feel particularly wanted at the end of our tasting, we left and no one asked whether we wanted to buy anything anyway.

Great spot and decent wines, but could do with some improvement in...

We a party of 10 booked a wine tasting followed by lunch at 2.30 on 27 December 2022 . Wine tasting was fine with a lovely selection of wines tasted. Followed by a number of wines purchased. Lunch however was a different experience. After ordering our meals we were told that there was no pasta left? How long does it take to whip up some home made pasta, I've done this many times! So we ordered again and at 3.55pm received our meals. One had been given to another member of our party saying it was part of their sharing order. Two of us received one meal to share. When asked where the other meal was we were told it was given to another member as part of their sharing plate. It was a main dish and not ordered as a share plate. It was returned to us half eaten. In all, the restaurant experience was the worst I together with the other party had ever had, considering what we paid. I suggest you need to get your act together it you want to be regarded as a future...

Have you watched the movie "Sideways".? An epicurean's drama. There's a scene in that film where an actor drinks the spittle basin because they wont serve him a decent taste of a wine. Cassie is like the cellar door in that film. Probably has the most undrinkable wines from this region, all show & no Go. Please Don't go, unless you are a package tourist & are forced to orf don't want to drive too far from the Pacific Highway. They call this region an "emerging" wine area. But emerging suggests it is growing ! too humid, wet & the Paleozoic soils suk. Better wine bottles are grapes sourced from the Hunter and New England but geepers creepers even with good grapes they still seem to stuff up the wine here. handy location though, adjacent to the Pacific Highway, they have some good events here, so once in a blue moon stop in here if you see an interesting event, but bring your hip...