Mudgee, NSW: Wine, Adventures and Relaxation
There are plenty of things to do around Mudgee, NSW. This region has one of Australia’s oldest wine regions with more than 40 cellar doors and 141 vineyards to experience the regions finest wines. There are many farm gates and markets to pick up Mudgee’s best organic produce or enjoy paddock to plate dinners and gourmet picnic lunches.
Mudgee’s got history. Its oldest building dates back to 1852, making it the second oldest town west of the Great Dividing Range. Today, it’s home to trendy boutiques and modern shops where you can join local events like art workshops, heritage walks, or pub cruises, or get outdoors with kayaking, horse riding, exploring the wetlands, wandering the Ferntree Gully rainforest trail, or even taking a hot air balloon ride.
Getting to Mudgee, NSW
The Mudgee region is approx 3 hours & 45 min drive from Sydney. You will need a car when you get there. Or fly Pelican Airlines to Mudgee and hire a car if you’re tight on time.
Wellness & Pampering – it’s not all about the wine.
- At All the H is a practice where degree-qualified practitioners and trauma-trained therapists offer various therapies like traditional east Asian Medicine, Chinese Medicine, Japanese acupuncture, Herbal Medicine and more.
- Beauty Muse run by 2 sisters, located at Shop 8, 13 Oporto Road, Mudgee offering a wide range of beauty therapies. Open Mon to Sat.
- Indra Beauty & Lashes offers beauty and spa treatments in two different areas of its latest premises 5 days a week – Monday to Friday.
- Bella Medi Spa Mudgee
- The Pampered Lady
- Ultimate Care Mudgee
- The Wellness Room Shop 1/13 Oporto Rd, Mudgee NSW
- Beauty Reclaimed Mudgee
- The Sisters – Tarot and readings – 1865 Windeyer Rd, Windeyer Ph 0404 104 698
- Hannah Does Yoga.
Explore & Discover: from sedate to adrenaline inviting adventures
- Adrenaline hot air ballooning: for beginners to the hooked adrenaline junkies to soar high! Locations are only where the views are jaw dropping, sunrises are spectacular, and the world is a better place from above.
- Helicopter Experience: customised and will you pick up.
- Bespoke Mudgee Experiences: call (02) 6373 3084 or email [email protected]
- Visit Gulgong, Rylstone, Kandos
- Explore Capertree Valley and Wollemi National Park.
Not-So-Hidden Treasures for Wine Aficionados in Mudgee, NSW
- Taste local wines here: Burnbrae, Bunnamagoo Estate Wines, Robert Stein Winery (including the Stein Farm Produce food truck, with a farm-to-plate experience daily). Then there’s Vineyard & Farm, Gooree Park, Logan’s,Craigmoor and Huntington Estate.
- The list goes on… Gooree Park, Logan’s, Robert Oatley Craigmoor Wines, Lowe Family Wine Company and Huntington Estate.
In all there are 60 wineries and 40 cellar doors in the Mudgee region. From small single vineyard to multi-generational family businesses to those specialising in organic wines, sustainable practice to heritage-like Italian & French varieties.
- Combine wine & art at Rosby Wines where the practice of low-impact viticulture and boutique wine production on small acreage brings outstanding harvests to market.
- You’ll be charmed at Yeats’ Wines, again small-batch wines produced on this family run 20 hectares. Opening in 2020, their cellar door offers light bites and bar snacks alongside vineyard views. Since the new owners took over in 2010, have steadily introduced sustainable vineyard management, right down to biodiversity and bio-secure practices. From attracting beneficial insects to shoo’íng away the nasties to help reduce risk of disease & encouraging healthy strong vines.
- A boutique vineyard definitely worth a stop, sip and stay is 791 Estate located at Ulan Road. ‘Fiona the Owner’ & grape grower Brendan are part of this vineyard’s charm. Enjoy a tasting and a bite to eat in the newly renovated cellar door, or grab a glass and sit under the shady trees outside.
- You won’t miss the bright, converted container set against an ancient rocky ridges just 5 minutes south of Mudgee arriving at First Ridge Wines. Boasting quite rightly aware winning Italian varietals such as Barbera, Sangiovese, Montelpuciano, Vermentino, Fiano, Sangiovese Rosé, Pinot Grigio, Prosecco & Frizzantehigh. The family’s love of things Italian extends to cuisine with calamari and vongole recipes online you can’t fail to try at home! Delizioso!
- Short for time & want to sample the best? Quite a few we’ve paid attention to, but you can also visit the Best of Mudgee’s wineries.
- Enjoy a kayak through Dunne’s Swamp
- Stargaze at Mudgee Observatory
- Rise above Mudgee to view those magical vines from above with hot air ballooning. Try Balloons Aloft or a for a breakfast skylark with Adrenaline Mudgee
- Catch a sunset at Moothie Estate
- Drive out to the gold mining town of Gulgong.
- Take a dip at the Drip
- Picnic among the vines
- Spin a bowl at Claycat Pottery @claycatpottery
- Admire the Aboriginal Rock Art
- Check out the panoramic view and ‘Lost City’ from Castle Rock
- Discover local art at Guluu Gallery
- Experience Pucca Buca Wetlands Wildlife
- Mudgee Makers Market are held monthly Sunday Makers’ Market, you’ll find a combination of the best Mudgee’s creatives. If it’s hand-crafted, painted, baked, crocheted, bottled, grown or sewn
- Mudgee Local Farmers Markets, held at St Mary’s Catholic Church on the third Saturday of every month.
- Rylstone Sunday Morning Community Markets 73 Louee St, Rylstone Opens 9am.
- Be inspired by Brett Niven Ceramics
Things to do around Mudgee: Good Eats Ooze from Mudgee’s Food Scene
A renowned Australian Food Destination:
- Pipeclay Pubhouse
- The Zin House
- If it’s a BBQ your salivating for a sizzling chunk of meat, the Smokin Bro & Co is a hands down fantastic. Located on Lewis Street at the Three Tails Brewery & Smokehouse. Smokin swears by the patient diner: hanging out for a slow-smoked American-inspired BBQ cooked with fire, fuelled with Ironbark in a one-of-a-kind smoker fondly referred to as “The Governor”!
- The Lawson Park Hotel is home to the famous Red Heifer Bistro that spruiks the best Angas steaks. A fine pub built in 1860 is situated in Church Street in Mudgee.
- Burnbrae Wines (Sunday lunch highly recommended)
- Alby and Esthers for great coffee, chilled courtyard and happy place for people.
- Mudgee Corner Store
- Outside the Square Cafe- 83-85 Mortimer St
- 89 on Market- 89 Market St
- Artisan on Lewis, 13 Lewis St
- 29 Nine 99 (Yum Cha and Tea House) 28 Louee St, Rylstone NSW 2849
- Wineglass Restaurant, 97 Market St
- Mudgee Brewing Co
- Market Street Cafe, 79 Market St
- Roth’s Wine Bar
- Althea bakery, Mudgee
- Oco and The Juice -70 Church St
- @delicias_italian_mudgee for pre-ordered home cooked meals
- Discover Mia Cucina, a local food guide & map for more
- Diners seem to love the Chicken Katsu buns @Dancing GoatMudgee – open for a quick meal or take-away . Apparently the coffees are super good too.
Things to do around Mudgee: Foodies & Irresistible Gastronomy
Mudgee – a food bowl in itself.
The region grows asparagus, beans, beetroot, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbages, cauliflowers, cucumbers, lettuce, peas, potatoes, pumpkins, silver beet, sweetcorn, tomatoes, turnips, and zucchinis. Harvesting season for veges runs from mid-October to mid-March but there’s no shortage in between!
- Cheese and Wine Trail
- Church Markets
- Honey Haven
- Cakes by Cath
- Dad’s Deli – Unit 10 Town Hall Arcade, 79 Market St
- 10’s Estate – Pick your own cherries at
- The Farmhouse Larder
- Lawson Park Markets – 2 Short St, Mudgee NSW 2850
- Mudgee Farmers Markets
- Gulgong Markets, Coronation Park, Mayne St, Gulgong
- Rylstone Artisan + Produce Markets, 73 Louee St, Rylstone NSW 2849
- The Little Cooking School, Mudgee
Retail Escapes
- Convent and Chapel Wool
- Farm Walks (farm gates)
- Mudgee Honey Haven
- Cherry Red
- Krysties
- Willow Collective – wonderful fashion, jewellery, swimwear and shoes at
- Mainly Mudgee Gifts, 78 Church St, Mudgee NSW
- Mudgee Gourmet and Hampers
- Mudgee Sunflowers and The Old School House 1883 located at 20 Brittania Rd
- Perfectly Sorted
- The Inside Shop
- The Lollipop Shop, 50 Louee St, Rylstone NSW
- We’re It Outt
- Whatever Mudgee
- BeSpoke Boutique
- Arts and Crafts Gallery, Mudgee Railway Station, Cnr Church &, Inglis St, Mudgee
- Laneway Boutique, 65 Market St, Mudgee NSW
- BeSpoke Boutique
- Brand Me Mudgee (embroidery, workwear) 1/15 Sydney Road, Mudgee 0427 733 161
- Claycat Pottery – Catherine Sykes. Pottery on sale at her studio – 282 Hill End Road, Erudgere 02 6372 0327
- Guluu Gallery
- Sally Taylor Photography, Mudgee 0431 868 725
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