South Australia
The driest state on the driest continent and the source of more than half of all Australian wine — home to the Barossa, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra, Eden Valley and Adelaide Hills.
About the region
South Australia is the driest state in Australia — which is itself the driest continent — and more than half of all Australian wine is produced here, including many of the country's leading cabernet sauvignons, shirazes, chardonnays, rieslings and sémillons. Its wine regions span out from the city of Adelaide, the top ones being Adelaide Hills, Barossa Valley, Eden Valley, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale and Coonawarra. These districts were founded by men whose names became synonymous with Australian wine — Hamilton, Seppelt, Penfold — and today a Who's Who of large Australian wine companies is based here, including Hardys, Penfolds, Peter Lehmann, Seppeltsfield, Wolf Blass, Wynns and Yalumba, alongside a hotbed of small and medium-size avant-garde producers such as Henschke, Jim Barry, Grosset, Torbreck, Shaw & Smith and Tim Adams. Note that 'South Australia' on a label is emphatically NOT the same as 'South Eastern Australia': South Australia is one of the five Australian states and contains the country's most famous wine regions, and its wines are among the most expensive in the country.
Grapes grown here
Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Grenache, Riesling, Syrah, Sémillon
