Perry Street Hotel, Mudgee review: Weekend away

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Perry Street Hotel, Mudgee review: Weekend away

By Joanna Savill
Perry Street Hotel, Mudgee.

Perry Street Hotel, Mudgee.

The location

While Orange gets more than its fair share of food-and-wine-tourism attention, its neighbour in the NSW central west offers plenty to rival the Apple City. For a start, it's the oldest continuously planted wine region in Australia. And while that's a bit of a mouthful, it translates into dozens of excellent wineries and cellar doors and a growing good-food scene to match.

The place

The two storeys and 13 suites of the Perry Street Hotel are located inside the rather formidable Mechanics Institute, built in 1862. From the upper corridors you can still see the bones of the high-peaked, wood-lined roof, a motif reflected into matte, wide-beamed wooden floors. There's no faux heritage chic here. Instead it's all muted tones with splashes of colour and gorgeous bucket-shaped light fittings. There's a wide upper verandah for lounging on, and our "Junior Suite" contains a kitchenette, high-stooled eat-in bench, free wi-fi and cool products in the bathroom.

The experience

Food and wine is the theme of your weekend, starting in your room. It offers a Nespresso machine with capsules, bottles of local wine (not free, alas), a basket of complimentary snacks plus breakfast toast, jam and muesli in a brown paper bag marked "Bon appetit". Cute. The rest of the time can be spent very happily exploring Mudgee's wineries, including the very fine cellar doors at Robert Stein, Lowe Wines and Logan. Have a drink and maybe dinner at Roth's Wine Bar or Alby & Esther's café (closed Sundays), which also does excellent coffee. Dinner can be fine contemporary dishes at Robert Stein's Pipeclay Pumphouse, about eight kilometres out of town. Then there's the excellent High Valley Cheese Factory and, every third Saturday of the month, the Mudgee farmers' market.

Don't miss

Lunch at The Zin House at Lowe Wines. Chef and local-produce guru Kim Currie puts together long weekend lunches in a gloriously renovated house on the hill, surrounded by mighty fine views. Each of around six courses is share-plate style, focusing on local produce and just-picked kitchen garden leaves and herbs. The cost is a very reasonable $75 per head with $25 for matched wines. Visit David Lowe at the neighbouring cellar door first - or after a post-lunch stroll across the property (a whimsical illustrated map is provided).

Need to know

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Cost: $175 for Standard Studio Suite.

Distance: 3.5 hours' drive (275km) north-west of Sydney.

Children: Yes.

40 Perry Street (corner Gladstone Street), Mudgee, NSW

PHONE: (02) 6372 7650

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