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The Adelaide Hills is the closest wine region to Adelaide’s CBD, in approximately 20 minutes you can be up in ‘The Hills’ enjoying a crisp glass of something delicious from this cool climate wine region. The Adelaide Hills is one of the largest geographical wine regions in Australia, it stretches in a narrow band approximately 70km long with a diverse array of soils, topography and climate.  “Bordered by the Barossa Valley to the North and McLaren Vale and Langhorne Creek to the South, the Adelaide Hills is the cool climate jewel between our warmer lower lying cousins” Adelaide Hills Wine, 2022 History The Adelaide HillsRead More →

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The Coonawarra wine region is an approx. 4 hour drive from Adelaide. It was founded by John Riddoch in the 1800s and today is Australia’s leading Cabernet Sauvignon region, making world renowned wines.  Coonawarra is in the heart of South Australia’s Limestone Coast, the largest outcrop in the world. The area is likely to become increasingly important for viticulture as it is a cooler and wetter region. It is famed for its Terra Rossa soils (Italian for red soil) which run along a cigar-shaped strip less than 30km long. It is a type of red clay produced by the weathering of limestone over many thousandsRead More →

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This term I’ve been looking at all things wine tourism and what fun that has been – each lecture leaves me hungry, very thirsty and with a list of places to visit as long as my arm! So in the interest of our education we organised a “study” trip to a few local vineyards to put theory into practice – we wanted to understand how tourism fits into their vineyards (if it does at all!) and if so what does it mean for them. Jacob’s Creek First stop on the trip was the famous Jacob’s Creek. Grapes were first planted here in 1847 and theRead More →