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How South Australia became one of the world s most exclusive wine touring destinations
Combining a sense of place with innovative wines, the wine-growing regions of the Adelaide Hills and McLaren Vale are well worth a visit
Wine tasting with a view at Shaw & Smith winery
Credit: Shaw & Smith winery
It was a sunny spring morning, with hints of mown grass and cherry blossom on the nose. Up on the summit of Mount Lofty, some 12 miles east of Adelaide in South Australia, I could almost hear the sap rising in the vineyards down below.
Before me, running north-south in a band of freshly greened-up, mist-snagged slopes and ridges, lay the Adelaide Hills, one of the New World’s most innovative wine-growing regions where elegant chardonnays and cooler-climate pinots are setting new standards in Australian wine. Before me, too, was a palate-tingling prospect – several days of tasting and eating through South Australia, the state which dominates the Australian wine industry.