The Region

Explore Mudgee

Over 35 cellar doors, hatted restaurants, weekend markets and country skies, all on your doorstep.

Getting here

An easy drive from almost anywhere

Mudgee sits in the Central Tablelands of NSW: far enough to feel like a real escape, close enough for a weekend. The house is just above the racecourse, a three-minute drive or twenty-minute walk into town, with cellar doors right across the road.

  • Cellar doors across the roadwalk over
  • Local cheese producerjust up the road
  • Mudgee town centre3 min drive · 20 min walk
  • Mudgee Racecoursejust below the house
  • Sydneyapprox. 3.5 hrs via Bells Line of Road
  • Newcastleapprox. 3 hrs
  • Dubboapprox. 1.5 hrs

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Things to do

Fill the days (or don't)

A few local favourites to get you started. Ask us for the full hit list when you book.

Mudgee cellar doors
Wine

Cellar doors & tasting trails

Two cellar doors sit right across the road from the house, with Mudgee names like Lowe Family Wine Co, Robert Stein and Logan Wines a short drive on. The region's cellar doors are famously relaxed and family-run. If you would rather not drive them, we run a hosted pub and wine tour for guests.

Alfresco lunch table with wine and a cheese board
Eat & drink

Restaurants & cafés

Long lunches at The Zin House or Pipeclay Pumphouse, craft beers at Mudgee Brewing Co, morning coffee on Market Street, and a local cheese producer just up the road from the house.

Hot-air balloons over Mudgee vineyards at sunrise
Experience

Hot-air ballooning

Sunrise flights drift over the vineyards and river flats: the classic Mudgee experience, worth the early alarm.

Mudgee markets and farm gates
Local

Markets & farm gates

Mudgee Farmers Market (3rd Saturday monthly), honey at the Honey Haven, and roadside farm-gate stalls all through the valley.

Nature around Mudgee
Nature

Walks & waterways

Birdlife at Putta Bucca Wetlands, picnics and paddling at Windamere Dam, and lookouts across the Cudgegong Valley.

Vineyard festival at dusk
Events

Festivals through the year

Mudgee Wine + Food Festival in spring, Winter Wine Weekend in July. Check what's on around the region for your dates.

Pub & wine tours

Or let someone else do the driving

Everything above is spread across the valley, which is fine until you work out that one of you has to stay sober to get everyone home. Guests staying at the house can add a hosted pub and wine tour instead: 11am to 5pm through the cellar doors and country pubs, with one of us driving and transport between every venue.

Tours must be booked at least two weeks before you arrive. We drive them ourselves, so the day has to be blocked out ahead of time and cannot be arranged after check-in.

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A glass of red at a Mudgee cellar door, looking out over the vines
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Base yourself in the middle of it all

Send your dates through and start planning the tasting trail.

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