HUNTER VALLEY • NSW
It’s hard to escape the references – it’s probably the reason that you’ve come to the Hunter Valley, after all – the approach to the Cypress Lakes Golf & Country leaves you in no doubt you’re in hardcore wine country.
Vineyards and cellar doors with familiar names – Hungerford Hill, Tamburlaine, Pepper Tree, Tyrell’s and Brokenwood to name a few – dot the landscape, luring out its own kind of devotees to go from one to the next, as surely as they were going from tee to fairway to green.
The references don’t stop when you arrive at Cypress Lakes. There are vines around the layout, not exactly hazards but neither places you want to hit into. In years gone by the tee markers were in the shape of wine bottles and the previous owners had their own wine
