Welcome to Country Escape Tours Mudgee
Country Escape Tours operate Mudgee Wine Tours with a difference!
We take pride in giving you exceptional customer service and focus on giving you a wonderful day out in this beautiful region of the world.
Enjoy a full day wine tour or a half day wine tour and discover award
winning wineries and breathtaking vineyards.
Our experienced guides Sandy and Maritza will take you to wineries
with delicious white and red wines, rose, ports and sweet wines
and will ensure you have a fun day.
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Let us create a Mudgee Moment® that you will remember forever.
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We also offer a trio tasting tour where you get to taste beer, wine and spirits
or take our horse riding tour which includes a horse ride,
lunch and a Mudgee half day wine tour.
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Alternatively join us on the Mudgee Hopper where you get
to hop on and hop off where ever you choose.
Create your own Mudgee Tour and visit
wineries, cheese tastings, honey tastings,
a distillery, craft beer, local produce and more.....
Lots of fun is guaranteed!
We pick up from your accommodation (*conditions apply) and
if you wish to have a private wine tour, we can do that too!
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Mudgee Wine Tours
Escape to the country with a fun day touring the gorgeous vineyards of Mudgee. With over 40 to choose from there is sure to be a wine you will enjoy. Our experienced guides will help you navigate through the choices and give you lots of laughs along the way! There is an option to include lunch on your tour which is a lovely platter of regional produce at one of the vineyards. Operates 7 days.
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Complimentary transfers to your accommodation are included. (*conditions apply)
Mudgee Moment®
Create your own tour around Mudgee visiting wineries, the distillery, the brewery, cheese & olive tastings. Choose where you want to go and the Mudgee Hopper will get you there. The bus runs on a one hour loop getting you from one venue to the next. Visit Vinifera Wines, Heslop Wines, Di Lusso Estate, Petersons and more...
3.5 hour Pass
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Saturday ONlY
Sunday on Long Weekends
Mudgee Hopper
Discover Mudgee in a different way when you join our hop on hop off tour to the Erudgere Region. This side of Mudgee has stunning scenery and the venues have fabulous food and wine. Visit Thistle Hill, Burnbrae, BlackLea, Lowe Wines, the Distillery and more...Click the Discover More button to view the Route and more information of this tour.
3.5 Hour Pass
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Saturday ONLY
Sunday on Long Weekends
Mudgee Hopper
Personalised with your own guide
This tour is the perfect choice if you want the freedom to go where you want to go and it is totally private. We won't include people you don't know. Visit wineries, cheese tastings, olive tastings, honey tastings, sculptures, enjoy a gelato, laze over a long lunch, the choice is yours. We design the tour all around you and your choices. Accommodation transfers are complimentary (*conditions apply) and your guides are locals who can make your day super special.
Half and Full day tours available.
Private Tours
Enjoy the great outdoors with a morning horse ride through a gorgeous bush setting. Wind along the river, wander through the beautiful scenery and during the warmer months you can even swim with your horse! Enjoy morning tea before heading to a historic country pub for lunch. Your guide will then give you the chance to taste local wines with a half day wine tour of the Mudgee vineyards before heading back to your accommodation. (*conditions apply)
Weekends only, please contact us for availability.
Horse Riding
Lunch & Wine Tour
Kayaking Tour, BBQ Lunch & Wine Tour
October-April Only
Enjoy the great outdoors kayaking the breathtaking Dunns Swamp and experience the wonders of the Woolemi National Park from the peaceful perspective of a stable kayak. See spectacular rock formations and rare native flora and fauna which all makes for spectacular paddling. Fun for the whole family! Enjoy a picnic bbq lunch before your guide then gives you the chance to taste local wines with a tour of the Rylstone vineyards before heading back to your accommodation.
Kayaking, Lunch & Wine Tour
Half Day Wine Tasting Tour
When looking for things to do in Mudgee, enjoy all our region has to offer in our action packed half day tour. You will be tempted with beautiful wines and also get to see this beautiful region. Our local guides are passionate about the area and will be sure to keep you entertained. Complimentary transfers to your accommodation, along with water and snacks on board. Lunch option before or after tour is available.
Tour operates 7 days.
Craft Beer, Wine & Spirits
Join us each Saturday afternoon where you will visit the Mudgee Brewing Company for a flight of 8 craft beers. Try a Porter, Pale Ale or an IPA. The tour then continues to the Baker Williams Distillery where gin, butterscotch schnapps and liquors will delight your senses. You then get to have a unique experience at Heslop Wines where the winemaker will give you a behind the scenes peak of the vineyard and winery. You will taste a flight of wines and enjoy a platter from Dad's Deli as the day winds down.
Includes a Grazing Platter
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Celebrate Mudgee in style with this fantastic half day tour where you sample the region's sparkling wine. Whether it is white bubbles or red bubbles you are sure to find a sparkle that you will enjoy! You will also enjoy a range of wines and a platter of local produce to nibble on. Great for hen's parties and girls weekends but the fellas may want to join too.
Tour operates Saturday Only.
*Please note: Accommodation
transfers outside a 10 kilometre
radius of Mudgee may incur
an extra fee.
Discover Mudgee
The Mudgee Wine Region is quickly becoming a very popular place to enjoy award winning wines. With over 40 vineyards to choose from you are sure to find something you like.
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Grapes were first grown in Mudgee from 1858 and the region has played a key role in the Australian wine story.
Discover why Mudgee is the food capital of Australia (2018) when you explore the area in our Mudgee Hopper. Your guides, Sandy and Maritza love the area and know their wines, having worked in the vineyards together. They will be only too happy to help you create your Mudgee Moment!
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3 unique silos, all for one group's exclusive use, minutes from sophisticated Mudgee's coffee culture, world-class vineyards & award winning restaurants.
Set on 250 acres, with deer, cattle, goats, elk and sheep.
The silos along with Deer Cottage create a wonderful location for a true country wedding destination or farm stay.
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Silos
Relax at the Wine Lovers Den just outside of Mudgee. Includes a bottle of Mudgee wine for all bookings of 2 nights or more.
2 large gorgeous living spaces, Foxtel & Netflix & Wi Fi & wood burner in the main lounge. Air conditioning in living areas. BBQ & full kitchen. Well stocked pantry. Outdoor dining space. All you will need to make the most of your stay.
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Relax & enjoy great wine at Wine Lover’s Den.
Wine Lovers Den
Thady Cottage in Mudgee NSW is a historic Victorian residence built in 1898 and named after the original owner of the site Thady Hanley. The property is located a short stroll from the CBD and located very close to restaurants and cafes and is an easy drive to the outlying wineries and cellar doors. The property has been recently refurbished and has private access to your Garden Suite via a key "lock box" located at your front door allowing access at your convenience on arrival.
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Cottage
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