Coonawarra
A cigar-shaped strip of terra rossa over limestone with a maritime climate like Bordeaux's — one of Australia's leading regions for structured cabernet sauvignon.
About the region
Coonawarra — the name is Aboriginal for 'honeysuckle' — is considered, along with Western Australia's Margaret River, one of the country's leading regions for structured cabernet sauvignons. The region, about 230 miles (370 kilometres) south of Adelaide, is a cigar-shaped strip just 7.5 miles (12 kilometres) long and 1.2 miles (1.9 kilometres) wide of terra rossa soil — porous reddish clay overlaying limestone. The climate, not surprisingly, is maritime, like that of Bordeaux.
