buter's BABY blog

Wow, we had a fabulous time over the weekend. Eating and drinking with friends is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend a weekend.

So, the super six booked a cottage in the Hunter Valley - drove up on Friday night and stayed in the lovely Woodlane Cottages just outside Cessnock.

Vic's excellent lasagne started our consumption of goodies for the weekend.... the end of the night was signalled by finishing (and starting) a bottle of Verona 8 year old Tawny Port in combination with Michael's waffles with Old English Toffee syrup - yummmm.

We then had a relaxing (read: slightly hung-over) Saturday morning breakfast. By 12 we were on the road and visited several wineries ... Calais, Bimbadgen, Blueberry Hill, Audrey Wilkinson, and the cheese factory at McGuigan's. We stopped for devonshire teas at the Hunter Valley Village and also perused some of the local art galleries.

By that time it felt like dinner so we went back to the cottage and had risotto for dinner followed by Lyndon's butterscotch pudding. Mmmmmm yummm. Drank some of the wine we bought, as well as more port.

Sunday ... we were less hung over, but still quite relaxed, so we ended up on the road at 12 again - visited Binnorie Dairy (cheeses! yum!!), Mistletoe, the Small Winemakers Centre (to refill our decanters of Verona Port), Peppertree and Ernest Hill.

I think we visited more wineries but I can't recall them all. The bestest ones were definitely Calais, Audrey Wilkinson and Ernest Hill. We were treated really well there, the atmosphere at each place was lovely, and the wines were fabulous.

We did take photos, but I'm too apathetic to post them - maybe later.

Oh and - WELCOME to my newest readers, the rest of the super six - Vic, Michael, Bac and Nick. Have fun!!

Edit - DTM just sent me a pic of our only-slightly-hung-over breakfast on Saturday. Thanks to Bac and Nick for the excellent bacon-n-sausages-n-eggs-n-mushrooms-n-tomatoes. I buttered the toast.