Wines of South Australia
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Wine Regions of South Australia, Australia
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Adelaide Hills
The Adelaide Hills wine region is just 20 minutes from the Adelaide city centre and is part of the Mount Lofty Ranges. Towns of the Adelaide Hills include Uraidla, Summertown, Bridgewater and of course the charming ‘German-town’ of Hahndorf.read more |
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Adelaide Plains
The Adelaide Plains wine region is situated just 30km north of Adelaide between the Mount Lofty Ranges and Gulf Saint Vincent. Its major towns are Gawler, Virginia, Angle Vale, Two Wells and Balaklava. Gawler is 40 kms north of Adelaide, or less than half an hour’s drive.read more |
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Barossa Valley
The Barossa Valley is undoubtedly Australia's best-known wine region, both nationally and internationally, and is South Australia's most visited tourist destination. Only 70km North of Adelaide or less than an hour’s drive, the Barossa Valley is full of charming towns that flaunt their German heritage. Towns of the Barossa Valley include Nuriootpa, Tanunda, Angaston, Rowland Flat, Bethany, Langmeil and Lyndoch.read more |
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Clare Valley
The Clare Valley is one of Australia's oldest wine regions and includes the towns of Sevenhill, Mintaro, Kapunda, Penwortham, Watervale, Auburn, Bura and Clare. The town of Clare is 120 km north or about a one and a half hour drive, from Adelaide.read more |
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Coonawarra
The Coonawarra wine region is in the bottom south east corner of South Australia, and is some 100 kilometers inland from the Great Southern Ocean. Penola is the main centre of the Coonawarra region and is nearly 400km from Adelaide, right up against the border with Victoria, and is in fact, at 450km, nearly as close to Melbourne.read more |
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Currency Creek
Captain Charles Sturt first explored this region when he travelled down the Murray River in 1829 and 1830 and made his last campsite near the present town of Goolwa. In 1837 the town of Currency Creek and Hindmarsh Island were officially named, and in 1840 an elaborate town plan for Currency Creek was laid out.read more |
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Eden Valley
The high country of Eden Valley has a long history of viticulture equaling that of the Barossa Valley. Joseph Gilbert planted the first vines at his Pewsey Vale vineyard in 1847, the same year as the first plantings by Johann Gramp in the Barossa Valley at Rowland Flat.read more |
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Kangaroo Island
The synergy between wine and tourism is well known, and at Kangaroo Island there is the potential to develop it to an unprecedented degree. The island is the third-largest of Australia's islands and offers an extraordinary range of attractions for the tourist: the best known being its native flora and fauna, unpolluted beaches and coastal scenery.read more |
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Langhorne Creek
Australia’s larger winemakers are well-represented in this region, for Langhorne Creek Shiraz or Cabernet Sauvignon is a valued contributor to many South Eastern Australian red blends by such winemakers as Beringer Blass, Hardy, Orlando and Southcorp. read more |
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Mclaren Vale
John Reynell planted grapes at Reynella in 1838 and later employed a young labourer named Thomas Hardy. In so doing, the foundations were being put in place for two wine dynasties that were to dominate the region for over a century.read more |
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Mount Benson
Strongly influenced by the Southern Ocean, the climate in Mount Benson is unequivocally cool and maritime. Summer temperatures can be three degrees cooler than the nearby Coonawarra region, and though budburst occurs two weeks earlier, harvest is about the same time or slightly later.read more |
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Padthaway
Identified in 1963 by Karl Seppelt as a viticultural region on the basis of a Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and South Australian Department of Agriculture study carried out 19 years earlier, Padthaway was originally known as Keppoch. read more |
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Riverland
The Riverland has long been recognised as the 'engine room' driving the Australian wine industry. The region produces nearly 60 percent of South Australia's grapes, which translates to nearly 30 percent of Australia's grape production. read more |
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Robe
Robe is Australia’s newest official wine region, having been declared in 2006. Until then, Robe and the Mount Benson region immediately to the north usually had been spoken of in the same breath.read more |
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Southern Fleurieu
The vineyards and wineries of the Southern Fleurieu Peninsula are, as is the case with Kangaroo Island, but one of numerous tourist attractions in the region. The undulating slopes and gentle hills pose no limitations to viticulture and simply serve to enhance the beauty of the vineyards within the setting of such a diverse landscape.read more |
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Southern Flinders Ranges
This is a new wine-growing region that emerged during the last 20 years of the 20th century. It is located to the east and north-east of Port Pirie which forms an urban focus for the region though not a part of it. It is also a natural north-western extension of the Clare Valley region with which it shares many geological factors.read more |
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This is another important region which initially suffered an identity crisis but from which it has now emerged. Only Pemberton (in Western Australia) has generated as much debate over its name. read more |
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