Forty hectares, two river gums, and one very good barn

Built 1893, re-shingled and re-floored in 2021. Seats 140 on long tables or 180 theatre-style, with a 6m ceiling, black steel chandeliers on dimmers, and doors on both long walls that open right through. Heated in winter, cross-ventilated in summer, and quiet enough that a speech works without a PA if you keep it under four minutes.

A flat half-hectare between two 120-year-old river gums, seating 200 with a wet-weather call made at 9am on the day — no fee, no argument. Power and a discreet speaker pit are already in the ground, so nobody is running cable across your aisle.

Stone-walled, low-ceilinged, and cold in the right way. Forty guests at one table, or a standing tasting for sixty. This is where most couples put the rehearsal dinner, and where the good bottles live.

The homestead sleeps 12, the shearers’ quarters 16, and two cottages take three each — 34 beds on site, included in exclusive hire. Everyone else stays in Pokolbin, eight minutes away, and we keep a list of who has beds free on which weekends.