Travelling south towards Adelaide, we passed through several wine regions, so it was an ideal opportunity to replenish our stock, having run dry in the desert.
The most famous region is the Barossa valley, but we’d been tipped off about the Clare valley. We loved the Clare valley as it is very picturesque, the wineries are small and there are no tourist buses. The Riesling is particularly good – nothing like the sweetish German stuff we tend to get in the UK.
We did stop in the Barossa valley and sampled the Shiraz for which it is famed. The Shiraz you get here is much more varied and less heavy and sweet than the stuff you pick up in UK supermarkets. We even stopped off at Jacob’s Creek and challenged them to give us something better than they export to the UK. In fact they have some excellent wines; the export stuff wasn’t available for tasting! Clearly, they keep the best wine for themselves.
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