After another relaxing morning we went off to hit the key
cellar doors we had missed. There are
about eighty in the area…so if we hit eight we had 10%! And we did.
First to one of the wineries that put the Barossa on the
world wine map: Penfolds.
https://www.penfolds.com
We stopped for lunch at Maggie Beer's Farm (pate, bread and peaches).
Then to Torbreck. Wonderful wines, most of which can be purchased in the USA from the website (all facilitated by the owner who is American).
Finally to Seppeltsfield where we skipped the wines and went right to their sherries and ports. They have been making vintage (not blended) ports since 1878 and for 50$ you can taste the vintage of your birth year. While enticing, we drank the good free stuff instead and came away with a bottle of their sherry.
We then drove east and into the Eden valley subregion of the
Barossa.
By the way, Australia does not use “appellation” lie the
French, or American Viticulture Assn” (AVA) regions. Instead they use “GI
(geographic indicator). In order to have a label that says Barossa Valley, at
least 85% of the grapes must come from that GI.
And if you don’t like reds…..don’t go to the Barossa!
In the Eden we visited Henschke Vineyards. Wonderful wines, but having bought almost a
case of red blends, we bought their gewurztraminer and their late harvest
botrytis gerwurz. Yum.
Then we trundled down the Eden Valley and into the next
“GI”, Adelaide Hills, home to many white wines. The road took us to Hahndork, a lovely town
of German heritage, and then onto the Motorway for the last 15 miles into
Adelaide. We had traveled 1400 miles on
two lanes road.
Adelaide, founded around 1840, is a beautiful planned city
and capital of the state of South Australia.
Our caravan park was a 1.5 mile way along bikeways and thru the parks to
downtown. We walked and found a
wonderful Italian restaurant called Scoozi’s, then hit The Stag for a brew
before our walk home on the lighted streets.
The Stag:
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