Pokolbin is part of New South Wales in Australia. It is centered in the Lower Hunter Valley wine region, an area famed for its vintners. Pokolbin is not a town but a rural area found between the towns of Cessnock and Branxton. Because of its famed wineries and vineyards, it is a popular destination for wine lovers. It attracts other holiday makers with its day spas, resorts and local art.
Wine tourism is the Hunter Valley’s mainstay and this brings numbers of people the area. Based here are the large multinational wine companies, small home vintners and everything in between. The countryside is primarily used for the growing of grapevines. Shiraz and Semillion predominate but one will also find Chardonay, Cabernet, Sauvignon and even a little Pinot Noir.
At 455 Wine Country Drive you can stop at the Vintage Hunter Wine and Visitors Centre for directions to all that the Valley offers. They are trained to direct you to all of the wineries, vintners and cellars in the area and will arrange visits to the likes of Blueberry Hill Vineyard, Morgan Family Wine Growers, Vinden Estate Wines, Thalgora Estate and Tyrrell’s Wines.
Pokolbin Village is the center of the Valley. It is considered to be the best base from which to conduct tours of the country as it is in walking distance of the cellars and vintners. Constructed to resemble a village its suites are set amidst landscaped grounds. One can arrange a more private, home-like stay in the bedroom villas and homesteads on offer. The staff will assist you in touring the wineries and in finding attractions of interest.
Another famed place here are the Hunter Valley Gardens. Created by Bill and Imelda Roche, award-winning gardeners and landscapers. Here twelve themed gardens cover over twenty-five hectares of land. A famed holiday spot, the Mercure Resort provides accommodations and there are many events besides the regular garden tours.
Here can be visited the Rose Garden, a corkscrew patterned garden of over 8,000 roses of more than 150 kinds. Also the Sunken Garden, made to appear like a sunken grotto beneath a large waterfall and shaped around a pond the size of five Olympic swimming pools and planted with a variety of evergreen and deciduous trees. The Chinese Garden and the Oriental Garden feature Chinese, Korean and Japanese motifs such as moss covered rocks, bamboo stands, gardens of raked gravel, pagodas amidst gingko trees and lily covered lakes stocked with Asian fish.
Both a State Forest and a National Park, Barrington Tops allows visitors to partake of nature pursuits. Huge cliffs, rain forest and fishing streams proliferate. This World Heritage site rests atop a twenty-five kilometer plateau and is home to a great variety of flora and fauna, some of it very rare. Here one can engage in canoeing, kayaking, cycling and hiking on trails and mountains, bushwalking and camping.
As one can see, Pokolbin provides access to domesticated as well as wild nature and makes available activities and amenities in plenty for those on holiday along with beautiful Pokolbin Hunter Valley accommodation to stay in.
