MIXING WINE AND WATER

by newtown grafitti
(Sydney )

Wine beside the sea

Wine beside the sea

Wine beside the sea Korean magic Bongo band A section of Pirrama Park

The Mudgee Wine Festival came to Sydney yesterday.

Pirrama Park. at the northern tip of the suburb of Pyrmont, is a 10 minute bus ride from Sydney's central business district (Bus route 443).


On a day like yesterday

- when the late autumn sun shone from a cloudless sky and the temperature reached 19 degrees C -

what better to do at Pirrama than to sit beside the sea with a glass of wine?

The Mudgee Wine Festival was in full swing, offering choices from stalls representing 30 wineries.

Mudgee is a New South Wales tourist destination in its own right, but yesterday Mudgee came to town.

For anyone feeling hungry there were stalls offering honey, olives, grass-fed beef and other regional foods.

Emphasising the Australianness of the event, entertainment was provided by a Korean magician and a bongo band.

It's hard to say how many people were there but it was probably well over a thousand.

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MIXING WINE AND WATER

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Mmmmm...Mudgee
by: Elle

We recently visited Mudgee. Their wines are excellent and the area is beautiful. It's a cooler climate than the Hunter Valley and the wine reflects that.

We stayed at Mudgee's Getaway Cottages which were a great find. They're self-contained, serviced cottages of varying sizes. The Cudgegong River winds its way past the bottom of the garden.

The cottages had everything we needed. All breakfast ingredients were supplied - including fresh eggs from the chooks that wander around (joining the emu and other farm animls) - they provided good internet connections and it was an easy stroll into town.

You could pick fruit from their trees (or strawberries from their strawberry beds), cut veggies from their garden, or delve for a handful of new potatoes to accompany whatever you threw on the barbecue. Definitely recommended.

We explored the beautiful surrounds and visited quite a few local wineries. When we returned to Sydney our car was packed with dozens of great bottles.

A short drive away was the Gulgong Pioneers Museum - a must if you're in the area. It's the best folk museum I've seen with a huge range of exhibits illustrating life in early NSW.

Gulgong was one of the 19th century Australian gold rush towns and the museum reflects that as well as showing the changing life in a rural community. The town still has a 19th century feel - it's almost as though frozen in time.

Mudgee is only about three or four hours from Sydney and the roads are good. Definitely worth a weekend (or longer) visit if you're in Australia! And if you can't visit, then a bottle or two of Mudgee wine is a decent consolation prize.

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