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With famous wines, a feast of festivals, a lively heritage, and only an hour's drive north of Adelaide, the Barossa is an ideal destination for a day trip, or better still a few days of pure indulgence.

The Barossa, comprising the Barossa and Eden Valleys, is one of the world's greatest wine producing areas. Twenty kilometres wide and about thirty kilometres long, it has a rich European culture with German and English-style villages, churches and chateau.

The region has 50 wineries ranging from some of Australia's largest wine companies through to smaller individual winemakers. Many offer wine tastings at their cellar doors, and most are open seven days per week.

The Barossa has a unique wine and food culture. The local restaurants and cafes specialise in serving regional foods, and butchers and bakers offer traditional wursts, breads and cakes.

-Take a winery tour in a limousine, vintage car or mini bus, or float through the Valley in a hot-air balloon

-Stay overnight in a restored cottage, farmhouse or country house for bed & breakfast

-Listen to divine music in a winery or century-old church during the Barossa Music Festival

-Taste the local produce and enjoy more than wine and food at over 100 events during the biannual Vintage Festival……coming up in 2003.

Hot Spots

Seppeltsfield - Australia's grandest wine chateau and home of world-class wines and fortifieds, began life as a dairy in 1851.

Bethany was first settled by Lutherans, and the pioneer cemetery and medieval-style traditional thatched houses are a reminder of days gone by. The Bethany winery, run by descendants of the original settlers, has panoramic valley views.

Jacob's Creek, the home of Australia's 'top drop', at Orlando Wines where the first vines were planted on the banks of Jacob's Creek in 1847

Menglers Hill Lookout offers sweeping views of the Barossa Valley.

At the Whispering Wall near Williamstown a whisper can be heard 140 metres away.

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