{"id":20239,"date":"2014-02-17T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T09:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/new-wine-and-tapas-bar-at-haunted-colonial-homestead-in-macarthur\/"},"modified":"2014-02-17T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T09:37:00","slug":"new-wine-and-tapas-bar-at-haunted-colonial-homestead-in-macarthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/02\/new-wine-and-tapas-bar-at-haunted-colonial-homestead-in-macarthur\/","title":{"rendered":"New wine and tapas bar at haunted colonial homestead in Macarthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gledswood winery\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-455143\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gledswood-winery-300x199.jpg\" height=\"159\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gledswood-winery-300x199.jpg\" style=\"background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; cursor: default; float: left; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;\" width=\"240\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 21px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The convict-built cellar door at Macarthur\u2019s historic Gledswood Homestead is now home to a new, rustic wine and tapas bar showcasing boutique wine and craft beer made by convict descendants.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 21px;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Itself boasting one of Australia\u2019s first wineries, established in the 1830s, Gledswood Homestead is a colonial farm built near Camden in the Macarthur region by James Chisholm, one of the founders of the bank of NSW. Nestled amongst Macarthur\u2019s hills and dales only one hour south-west of the Sydney CBD, 184-year-old Gledswood Homestead boasts heritage gardens, Georgian-style farm buildings and lost spirits that can be met on ghost tours every Friday night.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gledswood\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-455144\" data-mce-src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gledswood-300x200.jpg\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Gledswood-300x200.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px; cursor: default; float: right;\" width=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The homestead also features a convict-built cellar door which has been transformed this year into a rustic wine and tapas bar offering visitors a range of boutique wines from around Australia and also craft beer such as Convict Lager from the Sydney-based Rocks Brewing Company, run by fifth and sixth generation convict descendants.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The new bar will open afternoons on Saturdays and Sundays from noon at Gledswood Homestead and Winery, situated at Camden Valley Way at Catherine Field near Camden in the Macarthur region. Call 02 9606 5111 or visit&nbsp;<a data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.gledswood.com.au\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gledswood.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.gledswood.com.au<\/a>. For general information on the Macarthur region, visit&nbsp;<a data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.macarthur.com.au\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macarthur.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.macarthur.com.au<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convict-built cellar door at Macarthur\u2019s historic Gledswood Homestead is now home to a new, rustic wine and tapas bar showcasing boutique wine and craft beer made by convict descendants. Itself boasting one of Australia\u2019s first wineries, established in the 1830s, Gledswood Homestead is a colonial farm built near Camden in the Macarthur region by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}