After passing out at 10:00pm from a long day of arduous wine drinking. I was ready to get back in the saddle for day two! After breakfast, we decided we should perhaps drive down to the information center and get a map! Novel idea one day later. After getting our map we headed to Pigs Peake. This had been a recommendation from a "mate" of Alex's and as it turned out, one of the wine makers there was actually someone we had run into the day before! It was meant to be. And to top it off, they had an amazing Zin! (Zinfandel is few and FAR between here in Australia, so it is very rare to find it, and when you do its even rarer to find a good one.) Our day was off to a good start!
After Pigs Peake, we headed to Binnorie cheese shop, to meet up with Alex's Dad and Stepmom, Lavinia. We did a bit of tasting then headed off to lunch at Amanda's on the Edge. More wine with our amazing lunch, and a quick look around the grounds on another 95 degree day!
We then headed just up the road to Windsons Edge in search of a wine we had a lunch. (A sparking Verdelho) Although they didnt have the one from lunch they did have an amazing Port, which when we arrived, they were just waxing (adding the wax over the cork)
Of course, I asked if I could give it a go, and she said yes! So I ended up getting to wax a few bottles of Port! (If you go, you can probably find the one I did, it isn't quite perfect...I think I need a bit more practice...) But Lavinia thought it would only be fitting for me to keep my first bottle, and got it for me as a gift! Once I had done a bit of wine bottling, we ended our trek with Sandalyn in Lovedale, where we were able to find the Sparkling Verdelho from lunch and a couple of amazing olive oils to boot!
Leaving the Hunter after two days of wine and food was rough, but I know I am going to sleep very well tonight with a sparking Rose and a Port tucked nicely under each arm.
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