Wine tasting in the Hunter Valley

On Saturday morning we picked up a rental car in Sydney and hit the road headed for the Hunter Valley (2 hours north of the city). Brian did an excellent job driving on the left side of the road - other than the fact that every time he tried to turn on his indicator to change lanes he instead turned on the windshield wiper - oops.

The Hunter is similar to Niagara, except quite a bit bigger. The specialty is semillon and shiraz, they even make sparkling shiraz which we'd never seen before. We went to a dozen or so wineries, sampled a ton, bought a few bottles and had a great time.

One of the highlights was the beautiful hotel we stayed in, complete with kangaroos hopping all over the grounds, and the excellent Australian cheese that we ate too much of.