The month long celebration starts with Sydney Cellar Door, the city’s biggest outdoor wine festival, over the weekend of February 25-26. This is followed by a list of regional wine dinners.

Mudgee winery Logan Wines has been a major partner of NSW Wine Festival for the past five years and winemaker Peter Logan said it was a great initiative.

“NSW and particularly Sydney is our biggest and closest market for wine regions across the state,” he said.

“This a very collaborative project among all NSW regions to our product direct to the market.”

Mr Logan said the event has grown each year, in particular the Sydney Cellar Door, which generates a huge amount of interest.

Visitors can sample the best from more than 90 wineries and meet the winemakers from NSW’s 14 wine regions at Sydney’s Hyde Park. They can also match NSW’s best drops with food from 25 of the Sydney’s premier restaurants.

Mr Logan said Sydney Cellar Door organisers were praying the current weather lottery would be kind.

To celebrate NSW Wine Festival, four specially-selected hatted restaurants will offer a superb degustation menu for the regional dinners. The dinners are uniquely crafted to match the best wines from a leading NSW region. Mr Logan said he would be talking at prominent Sydney restaurant Sepia.

Other Mudgee wine cellar doors and businesses attending Sydney Cellar Door include Robert Stein, Bunnamagoo, Burnbrae, Queens Pinch, Lowe, Moothi, Gilbert by Simon Gilbert, Petersons and Mudgee Region Tourism Inc.