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EXP. has slowly, suddenly become the most exciting restaurant in the region. 
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The Hunter Valley’s newly two-hatted restaurant is the most exciting in the region

Ten years on, chef Frank Fawkner’s EXP. Restaurant is at the centre of what comes next for the wine district.

  • David Matthews

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Veal cotoletta with lemon and rosemary at Harkham Restaurant.
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Harkham Restaurant

Fresh, open dining room broadens area’s eating options.

Yellow Billy restaurant cooks much of the menu over custom fire pits.
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Yellow Billy Restaurant

Fire-powered cooking and a stacked wine list.

Pan-fried Murray cod, charred leek and shellfish cream at Muse Restaurant.
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Muse Restaurant

Top-tier wine-country fine dining.

Delicious small bites make up the menu at EXP Restaurant.
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EXP. Restaurant

Precise tasting menu allows a bush-centric sensibility to rule.

Natalie Galcsik was allegedly murdered by her husband, Steven, at the family’s B&B cottages near Pokolbin, in the Hunter Valley wine region on Friday.

Son’s heartbreaking tribute after ‘best mum’ allegedly murdered by husband

The son of Natalie Galcsik has described his mother’s “selflessness and love” after she was allegedly killed at the B&B his parents ran in the Hunter Valley wine region.

  • Perry Duffin
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Poolside solitude.

Australia’s oldest wine region has a slick new retreat

Despite the Hunter Valley vineyard setting (with vines first planted in 1968), it’s all mod cons here at The Lane Retreat.

  • Trudi Jenkins
NSW RFS fight Tamburlaine Organic Wines fire at Pokolbin.

‘It was a bonfire’: More than 50 firefighters needed to combat Hunter winery blaze

The fire at Tamburlaine Organic Wines raged for about 4½ hours on Thursday night and its main function area was “basically destroyed”.

  • Olivia Ireland
With restaurants such as EXP., the Hunter is building its own strong regional style.
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Piece of the country at EXP. in Pokolbin

With restaurants such as Muse, Margan, Esca, Bistro Molines and EXP., the Hunter is building its own strong regional style.

  • Terry Durack
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The best weekends away in NSW

From hidden homesteads to Sydney staycations and stunning seaside escapes, there are plenty of ways to relax in NSW.

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