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The Smelly Cheese Shop sells local and imported cheeses.

Smelly Cheese Shop

Everything you could need for a cracking Hunter Valley cheeseboard.

  • David Matthews

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Just 90 minutes from Sydney, you can relax in your own balcony bathtub with stunning views

Luxury lodges, lake-edge lolling, seaside stunners, glam-amid-grit CBD staycations and wine-country wonders: 16 great escapes in NSW.

Veal cotoletta with lemon and rosemary at Harkham Restaurant.

Harkham Restaurant

Fresh, open dining room broadens area’s eating options.

Pan-fried Murray cod, charred leek and shellfish cream at Muse Restaurant.
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Muse Restaurant

Essential wine-country dining on a grand scale.

Yellow Billy restaurant cooks much of the menu over custom fire pits.
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Yellow Billy Restaurant

Homegrown, fire-kissed shared plates underscore a cracking wine list.

Delicious small bites make up the menu at EXP Restaurant.
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EXP. Restaurant

Precise tasting menu allows a bush-centric sensibility to rule.

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EXP. has slowly, suddenly become the most exciting restaurant in the region. 
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The Hunter Valley’s newly two-hatted restaurant is the most exciting in the region

Ten years on, chef Frank Fawkner’s EXP. Restaurant is at the centre of what comes next for the wine district.

  • David Matthews
Natalie Galcsik was allegedly murdered by her husband, Steven, at the family’s B&B cottages near Pokolbin, in the Hunter Valley wine region on Friday.

Son’s heartbreaking tribute after ‘best mum’ allegedly murdered by husband

The son of Natalie Galcsik has described his mother’s “selflessness and love” after she was allegedly killed at the B&B his parents ran in the Hunter Valley wine region.

  • Perry Duffin
Poolside solitude.

Australia’s oldest wine region has a slick new retreat

Despite the Hunter Valley vineyard setting (with vines first planted in 1968), it’s all mod cons here at The Lane Retreat.

  • Trudi Jenkins
NSW RFS fight Tamburlaine Organic Wines fire at Pokolbin.

‘It was a bonfire’: More than 50 firefighters needed to combat Hunter winery blaze

The fire at Tamburlaine Organic Wines raged for about 4½ hours on Thursday night and its main function area was “basically destroyed”.

  • Olivia Ireland