Saltire Estate — Attraction in New South Wales

My wife and I visited this winery on Saturday 6/1/2024, travelling all the way from Melbourne and have been to many wineries both in Australia and abroad. The wine tasting service was disgusting and atrocious as we had to wait at least 15 minutes between pours even though there were 2 groups and just the 2 of us, having had 3 tastings ($20 for 7) in 30 minutes before we decided to leave to other wineries, the young lady that was supposed to be serving us, was more interested in the bigger groups. The other wineries we visited were however much more professional and did not disappoint us, what a shame as we are avid wine lovers and always seek to buy more wines for our huge collection, absolutely unprofessional and disappointing experience, small groups...

We’ve been going to the Hunter for a good while now and always try and pop to wineries we haven’t tried before. Saltire Estate was the first on our list for the day and it didn’t disappoint. Firstly, it was quite an unusual place to do the tasting upstairs with views of all the equipment. Secondly, the wine of course! I love both red and white and I’ve not ever been to a winery where I have enjoyed every single wine. It was amazing. Such a wonderful start to the day. Also the bargains this place has - 6 bottles for $60 because they ‘made too much’! Insane. Highly recommend the granache and the Cab Sav. Lastly, thank you to Mercedes who did our tasting and was so lovely. My only sadness was that I couldn’t pet max (I think?) the...

We stopped by the visitor center on our way into town and the lady marked saltier on our map as we did a drive around the country side we eventually found it using the paper map as Google didn't want to play nice.

Coming up the driveway we saw kangaroos and ducks and the cutest sign.

We poked our heads through the doorway and saw an upper level tasting room as we went up the stairs we we're greeted by a professional guard dog.

And started wine tasting the lovely lady took me through the entire list and I loved everything.

Other places only give you a thimble and 3 samples. Saliter are very generous. And had wine sales.

I get paid today.

Now I just need to get a "few tonnes" to be...