Regional Spotlight: Adelaide Hills

Raise your glass to the Adelaide Hills

Sumptuous food, stunning views and mouthwatering wines… what’s not to love? Welcome to the Adelaide Hills – a narrow strip of beautiful terrain standing high among the Mt Lofty Ranges. This famed Australian wine region east of the South Australian capital has a long history of viticulture and winemaking with terroir perfect for growing the purest of grapes to create wines that can take on the best in the world. The Adelaide Hills is all about elegant fruit characters, fine acidity, depth of flavour and great complexity.

Vines were first planted in the region in 1839 and as one of the largest geographical wine regions in Australia, the Adelaide Hills is all about elegant wines of great finesse and varietal intensity. The fact that at 700 metres, Mt. Lofty is the highest peak in South Australia is highly significant when it comes to viticulture and winemaking.

Site selection, which takes in climate, soil, altitude, aspect and exposure to sunlight and heat, is key to making fine wine and the Adelaide Hills offers those ideal conditions. It’s also a region that boasts diverse, ancient soils that grow vines yielding balanced crops of good berry size that are bursting with fine, complex flavours.

As one of Australia’s most vibrant cool climate wine regions and home to over 90 wine labels and 48 cellar doors, the Adelaide Hills is especially famed for modern Australian Chardonnay and for producing the region’s signature zesty, grassy, light-bodied, food friendly style of Sauvignon Blanc.

In fact, we stake the claim that Adelaide Hills winemakers craft some of the best Sauvignon Blancs in the country along with Chardonnay, Riesling, Pinot Noir and Sparkling wines – all hallmark wines of the Hills. And don’t forget its secret star, Syrah, a style that truly sings with the distinctive cool-climate of its South Australian soil.