Australia - South Australia - Barossa Valley and McClaren Vale
Barossa Valley, less than an hour from Adelaide, is an area of beautiful countryside, picturesque villages as well as fine food and wine. The Barossa Valley is a working wine region in every sense of the word. Cosy restaurants, cellar doors, hotels and resorts seamlessly blend in with vineyards and the business of producing top quality wine; enabling you to both taste the product and learn something about making wine from grape cultivation to fermentation, blending, storing, labeling and bottling.

The Barossa was settled in the 1840s by German Lutherans who also brought the first vines to the valley. Today the region remains close to its roots. Many Shiraz, Grenache and Semillon vineyards here have vines that are between 50 and 100 years old, producing wines with exceptional depth of fruit. Other grape varieties produced in the region include Chardonnay, Riesling, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, as well as Semillon and Pinot Noir in the slightly cooler Eden Valley, nearby.

McLaren Vale, located 39 km from Adelaide between the southern Adelaide hills and the sea, is a charming and substantial township surrounded by more than 40 vineyards and wineries. On every side there are fields of grapes and the signposts at various points are thick with invitations to visit cellar doors to sample the vintages and purchase the locally made wines.