Risk Reaps Rewards

WHEN Darren Scott and his wife Tracey bought the RidgeView property in the Hunter Valley for a cellar door back in 2000, they knew they were taking a risk.

Located on 100 acres at the end of Sweetwater Road at Belford, it’s hardly Pokolbin Central.

The turn-off to RidgeView is a further seven kilometres up the road from the main entrance to Wine Country, then down a dirt road that’s prone to flooding, a right turn, keep going and it’s the last property you come to.

Passing traffic? Zero.

The property was “a nice setting, but just dirt and trees,”