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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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I’ve been getting lots of requests for wine recommendations as I discover some of the delightful wines down under, particularly from pals in the UK who also want to know where they can buy them!  So I thought I’d start a monthly wine recommendation… First up for January I had to start with my wines of the year from 2021. I actually first discovered these wines in the UK whilst waiting for the Aussies to let me in but since getting here have loved learning more about them and I still think they are delicious wines and unbelievable value for money.  WHITE OF THE MONTHRead 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 →