Barossa Valley Wine Country Drive
Drive 60 km from Adelaide into the Barossa Valley — one of the world's great wine regions and the home of Australia's most celebrated Shiraz — for cellar door tastings at historic estates founded by German Lutheran settlers in the 1840s.
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Seppeltsfield Winery
Seppeltsfield is the most historic winery in the Barossa — the palm-lined avenue, bluestone buildings from 1851, and the unique practice of releasing a 100-year-old Tawny para port every vintage make this the most extraordinary cellar door in Australia.
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Penfolds Magill Estate
Penfolds Magill Estate is where Grange Hermitage was first made in 1951 — the original cottage where Max Schubert created Australia's most famous wine is preserved, and the estate's hillside restaurant is among Adelaide's finest.
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Tanunda Town Centre
Tanunda is the cultural heart of the Barossa — the town square, the Zion Lutheran Church spire, and the heritage streetscape show how comprehensively German the Barossa's founding culture was, still reflected in surnames and food traditions.
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Jacob's Creek Visitor Centre
Jacob's Creek, where Johann Gramp planted the first Barossa vines in 1847, is now a major visitor centre — the creek itself is a modest trickle but the site is significant as the origin point of the Barossa wine industry.
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Henschke Hill of Grace
Henschke's Hill of Grace vineyard in Eden Valley contains Shiraz vines planted in 1860 — the wine made from these ancient gnarly vines is among the world's most sought-after, sold by allocation to long-term customers.
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Maggie Beer's Farm Shop
Maggie Beer's Farm Shop in the Barossa is the culinary centre of the region — pheasant farm pâtés, Barossa charcuterie, verjuice, and the brand that made Barossa food as famous as Barossa wine are all available here.
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