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.
Shiraz Uncorked: The Australian way
January 22nd, 2021
Shiraz wine is an Australian institution. Since the mid-19
th Century, Australian growers have been honing their winemaking craft and turning Shiraz grapes into spectacular wine on a world stage.
It’s an established fact that Australia produces some of the finest Shiraz wines in the world. As recently as 2019, Kellermeister’s Wild Witch 2015 Shiraz from the Barossa Valley took top honours at the London Wine Fair, and in 2020 d’Arenberg’s 2017 The Dead Arm Shiraz won Wine of the Year at the same competition. The variety’s origins in Australia stem from the pioneering work of iconic wine producer, Penfolds. Journalist