Hunter Valley Wine Tasting

We returned from the Gold Coast on Thursday night and went wine tasting all day on Friday. Our driver picked us up around 9:30 AM and we drove to Hunter Valley about 45 minutes away. We were in a van with five others, two couples and one single guy. Ironically both the couples were from the US.. and quite interesting. We started off at a winery called Savannah Estate which is named after the owner's daughter who's only 12, must be nice! The lady that served us was pretty generous and we tasted about ten different wines and she had out cheese and crackers ;) We soon were off to another winery and again tasted at least 7 or 8 different wines. This particular winery which I can't even remember it's name had the most amazing view! Our tour driver told us that they had the best location of all the wineries in the Valley. Next we went to the Smelly Cheese factory and sampled a few different soft cheese's, they were ALL delicious! We also got gelato there and bought some cheese to take back to Jimmy's house. After that another winery.. we're up to 3 now, then to Hunter Valley gardens for lunch, which also had a winery and a chocolate tasting! Then we went to our last tasting which was mainly liqueors. They had some Chili Schnapps called Dragon's breath. Holy crap I can't believe I tried it. The server poured everyone some and said wait because we were all going to do it at the same time. Then he said don't sip it because it will burn your tongue.. he started counting 1...2... looked over at Merd and said, "well I guess she couldn't wait" and 3 everyone else. It was pretty funny! She had already tried it so she knew what she was in for but failed to let me know.. It was REALLY REALLY hot! Anyway we had a blast and had a lot of wine. We ended up buying 3 bottles and 1 bottle of Kilkenny Cream which is like Baileys. Very Very fun day! The view I was talking about Chilli Schnapps.. HOT! YUM Such a tourist.. signing the guest book! They were roaming around so we stopped to take pictures