Ernest Hill Wines — Attraction in Nulkaba

Quite rarely I give out 5 stars but this place deserves more!!

We called in for tasting. You know how you get confused when there are thousands of vineyards around and you are not sure what and where to go, My partner was super excited to go to one, i was not sure and i was driving too. Anyway we called in and super friendly lady confirmed us just before a bus group would be doing their session.

The vineyard look soo good and lovely from outside, the staffs were so welcoming and passionate for what they are doing. We had Anne explain us about the wines. She made the experience so much better. The passion and knowledge she was sharing was great like the wines i'd say.

Never before I would have thought a grape juice on a glass was a result of such hard work, blood, sweat and tears. We ended up chatting about the process of making wines to the farming aspect of the grapes and weather, season...you name it.

Anne, god bless your soul. You are truly the face of the region. I hope the rain made you guys smile as the weather/drought and bushfire has made it really hard on the vineyards.

Would really like to recommend this place to everyone who are like us, who enjoy a glass of wine but would like to know a bit more about the art that's fitting this masterpiece into a glass bottle with pure hard work...

The Vineyard was very pretty and the guide was very very informative. I have taken tours of many Vineyards and wineries around the world, and this guide really knew her enology and viticulture. It would’ve been a wonderful tour and tasting, except for the fact that at the end she was making fun of one of the wines that we actually wanted to bring home. Which made things a little awkward. It was one of the sweet wines, and I usually love a big red Cabernet, and lived near the California wine region for many years, and was accustomed to California wines, but have grown a fondness for other regional wines, including Australia, and was really enjoying some of their Pinots, but also some of the sweeter wines which are really not offered much in California vineyards. And so we were looking forward to bringing some of the sweeter wines back, and it was really offputting that the guide was sort of making fun of them, because then we felt really odd buying them. Spoiler alert: we bought them anyway! But she made us feel like a little bit of a dummy that we wanted to buy them. I know that a more sophisticated palate would’ve bought some of the other wines, but that’s not...

Booked a wine tasting here as we passed through the Hunter Valley on our Australian roadtrip. We walked from our campsite 30 mins away and arrived looking like roasted tomatoes!!! Everyone put us at ease, gave us lots of water and then started what turned out to be a wonderful afternoon of tasting wonderful reds, whites, roses, tawnys, dessert wines.....the knowledge we gained was excellent. It was such a fun afternoon, everybody was really friendly and passionate about what they produce. We bought some of our favourites from the afternoon and to top it of they felt so sorry for us, one of the staff gave us a lift back to the campsite. The tasting was directed towards our preferences but we also got to taste some products we might have overlooked. This was an afternoon that will form a significant part of our repertoire of stories about our travels when we return to the UK. A wonderful tasting experience we would recommend to anyone and everyone visiting Hunter Valley. Go out of your way to visit: it's worth it Maureen &...