The town itself is not dissimilar to Katoomba in its architecture, very cutesy, very old school - it feels a little Iike being in a toy town or on the film set for some Western. Every building has these old fashioned wooden patio style with painted signs. There's not a fluorescent shop front in site. What made it different to Katoomba though was the buzz, or lack of it. Despite the two nightclubs... This is far from a hip and happening place. Although it's beautifully done and in a stunning natural setting, it feels more like a pretty bleak, backwards cowboy town in the deepest darkest pockets of the States where no one goes.
Saying that, the setting really is stunning and we were far from disappointed by the Two Rivers Vineyard, an award winning winery with its home right in Denman itself. Its vineyards stretch for acres across the Valley's bright green hills and inside we got to taste everything they had to offer in a private tasting session.
With two bottles, a multi award winning semillon and merlot, under our arms and a little squiffy we decided to head back to the house to pick up the car for some more tasting... This time cheese.
Muswellbrook is the nearest biggish town and is home to the Hunter Belle cheese company, which offers up samples of all there cheeses from blue, to creamy, to Swiss style to feta. Good day for free tastings. Although non-sensically we ended up leaving with no cheese and a whole lot of their homemade fudge (the creamiest most divine tea time treat you'll ever taste - pecan flavour, rum and raisin flavour, smarties flavour and salted caramel. Dear lord it was good).
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