Diners at top restaurants across the nation have a rare opportunity to taste two of Australia’s best single vineyard wines without breaking the budget.
SA Tourism travel blog
You can’t get far without encountering one of our world-famous wine regions. Adelaide is the wine capital of Australia – and one of the nine Great Wine Capitals of the World, along side Bordeaux in France, Napa Valley in the US and Bilbao Rioja in Spain. The network of global wine capitals share a common asset: their internationally renowned wine regions. Pour yourself a glass and check out our guide to South Australia’s top wine regions.
1. Barossa
Seppeltsfield Rd, Barossa
Explore over 80 cellar doors in the Barossa, along with five-star retreats, opulent self-contained accommodation and sumptuous food. Red wine aficionados will be in heaven; enjoy a glass by the fire in winter or outdoors in the leafy shade during summer, spring and autumn. Due to its Mediterranean climate (warm summers and mild winters), the Barossa’s Cabernets and Shiraz’ are unbeatable.
Decanter Southern Jewel: Henschke Mount Edelstone 2015 is Decanter’s Australian Red Wine of the Year 2020
Promotional feature.Decanter has unveiled Henschke Mount Edelstone Eden Valley Shiraz 2015 as its Australian Red Wine of the Year 2020 in the latest issue of the magazine
The famed vineyard, first planted to ungrafted shiraz vines in 1912, is found beneath a small hill or ‘mount’ originally given the name ‘Edelstein’ by a German surveyor back in 1839. The German word Edelstein translates to ‘gemstone’ or ‘jewel’; a reference to small yellow opals once found on the property. With time, this was anglicised to Mount Edelstone, and the single-vineyard wine has been labelled this way since the very first vintage that fourth-generation winemaker Cyril Henschke produced from this northern-Eden Valley vineyard in 1952 from 40 year-old vines.