Hunter Valley’s Hermitage Road wine trail in Pokolbin boosted by Andrew Thomas

Hermitage is a famous appellation in France, and the Hunter Valley road of the same name no doubt honours its northern Rhone namesake, famous for “limited quantities of seriously long-lived reds”. The boutique wineries that take in the Hermitage Road at the north-eastern corner of Pokolbin also have a reputation for limited quantities of seriously good red wine (and Semillon), if its cluster of much-awarded medallists is anything to go by.