Barossa

I was lucky enough to taste through the wines tried in the shiraz and historic perspective masterclasses yesterday and the wines came from all regions of Australia …. the Barossa is the venue, not the focus.

The state of Australian wine – and Landmark Australia | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

Today, old-name Barossa winemakers such as Bethany and Penfolds still dominate the market, but there is an awful lot more to choose from.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

So the news that the European Commission has signed a labeling deal with Australian wine producers protecting more than a hundred Australian "geographical indicators" such as Barossa and Coonawarra came as something of a surprise.

The Rise of Regionality 2010

Partly this was because of the rise of warm-climate wine regions in the New World such as Barossa, California's Napa Valley and much of Chile.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2009

This drinkable rosé from the Barossa has a distinctly Provençal dryness on the finish.

A Summer Drinking Selection Will Lyons 2011

It was nothing more, they said, than two short hill climbs and a pedal through undulating hill country on the fringe of the wine-growing Barossa Valley outside Adelaide.

Armstrong completes first stage at Tour Down Under 2009

After selling the business, he switched horses and bought a vineyard in the Barossa Valley, Australia's premier wine growing region.

Happy Family News karenmiller 2009

Seppeltsfield 1909 100 year old Para, Barossa Valley

249 bottles of wine on the wall | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

Surgeon George Ogden, on the Barossa, left appalling watercolours of the condition at its worst, an unfortunate man called Edwards shown with his inside leg raw from groin to ankle and the rest of his skin spattered with lumps which were, the surgeon noted carefully, "the size of a grain of Scotch barley".

Amputations, acid gargles and ammonia rubs: Royal Navy surgeons' 1793-1880 journals revealed Maev Kennedy 2010

The style of its wines—sometimes described as sinewy and linear, with aromas of raspberry or earthy notes—taste like no other and, in terms of a comparison scale, they are a long way from Australia's Barossa Shiraz.

An Australian in Burgundy Will Lyons 2011