22 places
An hour northeast of Adelaide, the Barossa is the easiest great wine region in the world to visit. The cellar doors sit within about 17 kilometres of each other, so you can taste at four in a day without ever driving more than fifteen minutes between them — a rare thing among regions of this reputation.
What you come for is Shiraz, and specifically old Shiraz: some of the vines here were planted in the 1840s by Silesian settlers and survived the phylloxera that took out most of Europe's. The wines are dense, warm-climate, generous. Riesling from the neighbouring Eden Valley provides the counterweight.
The valley is two parallel roads through gum trees and stone cottages, with the big historic names and small growers side by side. Most cellar doors open without an appointment. Harvest runs February to April, hot and busy; September to November is greener and quieter.
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Chateau Tanunda Estate
9 Basedow Rd
Tanunda SA 5352
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Grant Burge Wines Pty
11 Lily Farm Road
Krondorf SA 5352
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Henschke Cellar Door
1428 Keyneton Road
Keyneton SA 5353
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Laughing Jack Wines
194 Stonewell Road
Marananga SA 5355
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Moorooroo Park Vineyards
200 Nitschke Road
off Krondorf Road
Tanunda SA 5352
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Murray Street Vineyards
Murray Street
Greenock SA 5360
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Saltram Wine Estates
435 Angaston Road
Angaston SA 5353
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Smallfry Wines
13 Murray St
Angaston SA 5353
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Springton Hills Wines
Koop Creek Road
Springton SA 5235
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Stonewell Vineyards and Wines
Stonewell Road
Tanunda SA 5352
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TeAro Estate
20 Oueen Street
Williamstown SA 5351
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Teusner Wines
Corner Railway Terrace & Research Road
Nuriootpa SA 5355
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Torbreck
348 Roennfeldt Road
Marananga SA 5355
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Turkey Flat Vineyards
Bethany Road
Tanunda SA 5352
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Whitechapel Wines
Gerry Semmler Road
Lyndoch SA 5351
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Wine SA
16 Reese Avenue
Richmond SA 5033
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Wolf Blass Winery
97 Sturt Highway
Nuriootpa SA 5355
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Yalumba
Eden Valley Rd
Angaston SA 5353
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