Braemore: From the dress circle for the Hunter's best semillon wines

By Daniel Honan
May 19 2018 - 9:00am
Patch of gold: Ken Bray, the namesake of Braemore vineyard on Hermitage Road in Pokolbin.
 Picture: Simone De Peak
Patch of gold: Ken Bray, the namesake of Braemore vineyard on Hermitage Road in Pokolbin. Picture: Simone De Peak

West, beyond the rugged coastline of Newcastle; bounded to the north by the long slash of the Hunter River, and the distant blue shadows of the Barrington Tops; right below the flank of the ancient Brokenback escarpment; here, beneath a blue sky perpetually menaced and obscured by clouds; row upon row of straight lines run north to south, organising a landscape that was once an ancient sea floor into a neat terrain of toil and promise.

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