Friday, March 21, 2008

Australia Trip 08 - Blue Tongue Brewery (Day 2)

Our last station of this full day tour - Beer factory
Beer Tasting - Becoz this is a compliment item on the trip thus we need to pay the pallet (of beer) ourself T_T
Yeah!! our 6 type of beer together with a copy of explanation of beer type detail
Our lovely tour guide.. we are too tired and full for any meal or beer after the pallet.. went chatting with this uncle.. and he told us quite some history and background of the vally
Happy Celine and Julia Probably 15% drunk
No grapes liao.. the tour guide told us they just harvest them 2 weeks ago
Close up of vine leave - Mexican eat vine leave u knw??!
Brewing factory for wine - you can smell the fermented grape smell

Australia Trip 08 - Smelly Cheese & Chocolate (Day 2)

After so much of wine.. we finally are able to a have a break! We arrived at the Smelly cheese station.. They specialize in blue cheese (aka rotten cheese) and they have a smelly room where they display all their smelly cheese for sale
Normal cheese on the rack
Inside the smelly cheese room.. huge chunk of the blue
and more blue!! the room is really very BLUE~ julia and ariel didnt stayed in for long ^o^
Chocolate factory - specialise in chocolate fudge block
Blocks and blocks of choco fudge

Australia Trip 08 - Kevin Sobels Wines (Day 2)

Next station we arrived at Kevin sobel wine stop.. our last wine stop!!
Our tour guide cum driver is explaining to us about this yard culture and best goodies
We drank so much of wine that day!!!White port - the one on the right.. is the tour guide recommendation.. he is like us. he prefer something sweet and it is also a little expensive as compare to the other stations *of coz i bought 1 for inho and he really like this alot*
The ultimate guide to everything about hunter valley

Australia Trip 08 - Audrey Wilkwson (Day 2)

Next stop, we arrived at the Audrey Wilkwson House
The hilarious wine experts.. he taught us alot of knowledge about wine ^^ again we tasted about 8 type of wine here too
My purchase is again desert wine! haha cant stop buying that. In Singapore you wana get a desert wine is soo much expensive
The cement tub where they use to marinate the vine
Too bad we didnt have much time to walk around.. rushing for next stop!

Australia Trip 08 - Hunter Village (Day 2)

The shopping village in Hunter - Hunter Village
We are actually here for LUNCH!! visited Oscar Restaurant
Hungry Piggs
Giant Salad Platter - Loves the cheese
Indra's Giant chicken with giant chips
My most fancy shop - The Twig
i bought this for inho's mummy!!!
Some snap of the grapes plantation

Australia Trip 08 - Hunter Olive Centre (Day 2)

Next stop, we arrived at the hunter's olive center! Austrian really loves olives oil much more than we Asian .. there are so many ways to enjoy olive oil.. an eye opener for me~Hunter Olive CentreUs in Hunter Valley
Olive oil and crunchy dip - Love it ^^ haha
Olive oil paste!! salty and delicious
Soap made from olive oil!! quite expensive coz they are handmade... AUD$6.50 (abt SGD$8) bought the rosewood one for inho's mummy too ^^