Barossa in the rearview mirror and Adelaide Hills ahead

Tuesday 23 April, 2019 

While in the Barossa we stayed at Jacobs Creek Retreat which had beautiful old cottages converted into B&B accommodation. Gardens were beautiful.

The gardens had all these old river red gumtrees around the manicured lawns.


















Before we left the Barossa we went to Henschke winery in Eden Valley. Henschke (1868) is a family-owned, 151-year-old winery which produces the 'Hill of Grace', a Shiraz blend, one of Australia's "cult wines", and considered one of Australia best wines by James Halliday.  Langton's classification also rates it very highly, being 'Exceptional' their highest category.

A photo of the original founder Johann Christian Henschke with his wife Appolonia who died, along with his six year-old son and nine month old daughter en route to Australia. Whatever else you might want to say about nineteenth century German Lutherans, they certainly seemed to know how to have a good time. 

We took a photo of the Hill of Grace vineyard with its famous old German Lutheran church. 

The graveyard at the church was full of the original settlers with the tombstones written in German. Here is Johann Henschke’s grave. 

Then we moved onto Adelaide Hills and stopped at Shaw + Smith, the makers of some very fine Sauvignon Blanc – unfortunately Trevor hates Sauvignon Blanc and I’m not a fan either. Luckily they produce some awesome versions of Chardonnay, Pinot and Shiraz.