South Australia
Barossa and Eden Valley · Adelaide and McLaren Vale
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Seppeltsfield
Barossa and Eden ValleyA tawny from every vintage since 1878
Joseph Seppelt, an emigrant from Silesia, bought this Barossa land in 1851. Its great treasure is the Centennial Collection: an unbroken line of tawny from every vintage since 1878, and it is the only winery in the world to release a 100-year-old single-vintage wine every year. Its 1888 Gravity Cellar is making red wine again.
- Address
- 730 Seppeltsfield Road, Seppeltsfield (Barossa), under an hour from Adelaide
- Phone
- +61 8 8568 6200
- cellarsales@seppeltsfield.com.au
- Visits
- Cellar door open daily, 10:30 am to 5 pm; bookings essential
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Yalumba
Barossa and Eden ValleyThe only on-site winery cooperage in the Southern Hemisphere
Its story begins in 1847, when Samuel Smith arrived from Dorset, England, and settled in Angaston. Today it has the only working on-site winery cooperage in the Southern Hemisphere, where you can watch barrels being made.
- Address
- 40 Eden Valley Road, Angaston (Barossa)
- Phone
- +61 8 8561 3200 (Wine Room)
- wineroom@yalumba.com
- Visits
- Wine Room open daily, 10 am to 5 pm: seated tastings of about an hour, by booking; cooperage visits
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Henschke
Barossa and Eden ValleySix generations and the Hill of Grace vineyard
Founded in 1868, it is one of Australia’s oldest family-owned wineries, now in its sixth generation, in the Eden Valley. The cellar door is in the original 1950s woolstore and keeps a dry-stone wall of the 1860s grain barn built by the first Henschke, Johann Christian, a stonemason. Its most famous vineyard is Hill of Grace.
- Address
- 1428 Keyneton Road, Keyneton (Eden Valley), 10 minutes from Angaston
- Phone
- +61 8 8564 8223
- cellardoor@henschke.com.au
- Visits
- Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 4:30 pm (closed Sundays), bookings essential: one-hour seated tasting from AU$20; private Hill of Grace vineyard tour
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Penfolds Magill Estate
Adelaide and McLaren ValeThe home of Penfolds, since 1844
Dr Christopher Penfold and his wife, Mary, founded it in 1844 in the Adelaide foothills, with vines brought from France. At the heart of the estate stand Grange Cottage, their original home, and the original stone cellars. Just 8 km from central Adelaide, it is one of the world’s few urban single vineyards.
- Address
- 78 Penfold Road, Magill (Adelaide)
- Phone
- +61 8 8301 5569
- Visits
- Open daily, 10 am to 5 pm: tastings and tours of the working winery and underground cellars, booked online
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d’Arenberg
Adelaide and McLaren ValeThe Cube, above the McLaren Vale vineyards
The Osborn family has tended vineyards in McLaren Vale since 1912. Fourth-generation Chester Osborn has been chief winemaker since 1984 and dreamed up the d’Arenberg Cube in 2003, a building inspired by the puzzles of winemaking: the tasting room is on its top floor, looking over McLaren Vale, the Willunga Hills and Gulf St Vincent, with a museum below.
- Address
- 58 Osborn Road, McLaren Vale
- Phone
- +61 8 8329 4888
- Visits
- Tasting room daily, 10:30 am to 4:30 pm (best to arrive by 3:30 pm). Cube entry AU$20 including the museum; tasting of about 30 minutes, AU$20; booking recommended
Some photos show the area, not the winery itself: each photo’s credit is on the winery’s card.
If you're tasting, don't drive: book a transfer or a driver.
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