Newcastle Food Month – First Creek Wines Cellar Door in the City

April in Newcastle is Newcastle Food Month. On Easter Sunday, 5th April, Matt and I attended First Creek Wines Cellar Door in the City at Ms Mary Newcastle, the lobby bar in the Crystalbrook Kingsley Hotel in the heart of Newcastle.

This year is the first year either of us have attended any Newcastle Food Moth event, and wonder how we’ve never attended in previous years! But we’ve changed that from this year.

First Creek Wines are holding their Cellar Door in the City at Ms Mary Thursday through to Sunday throughout April as part of the Newcastle Food Month. We had Kerry hosting our experience today, which is a flight of four First Creek Wines to sample in our 45 minute session.

The wines that we tried as part of Cellar Door in the City included Limited Release Hunter Valley Vermentino 2025; Classic Hunter Valley Rosé 2025; Single Vineyard Will’s Hill Chardonnay 2023; and Limited Release Tumbarumba Pinot Noir 2025. The Chardonnay was definitely my favourite, while Matt said that the Pinot Noir was what he like best. Matt was also surprised to think that he liked the Rosé as he is not usually a fan of Rosé wines.

Three of the four wines that you sample are award winning wines. As well as this, First Creek Wines have been recently named Halliday Winemaker of the Year and NSW Wine of the Year. So settle in, and enjoy your experience with some of NSW’s best wines.

We’d definitely consider doing this experience again before the end of Newcastle Food Month, but I think we’d also do it with the upgrade which is pairing the four wines with a four bite flight food pairing by Executive Chef Joey Ingram which is $25. The Four Flight Wine tasting on it’s own is $15 per person.