Epicurean Way
The SINGAPOREAN’S GUIDE to
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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Epicurean Way
Embark on a delicious adventure through some of the best food and drink options South Australia has to offer
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We suggest soaring above the vineyards in a vintage biplane before playing winemaker for the day. Expert staff at The Blending Bench will guide you through the art of winemaking, let you blend your own wine, bottle it and take home. For one of the best meals you’ll have in South Australia, you must book a table at d’Arry’s Verandah Restaurant. Seriously.
B Don’t miss this joint
Toasty and warm in winter, the bi-fold doors to this airy, high-ceilinged room are thrown open in the warmer months, inviting the vine-covered vistas indoors. Although local seafood is strongly featured on the menu, it is the harvest from the chef’s own kitchen garden and produce from the local farmers’ market that steals the show. Desserts are beautifully crafted. Go for the ice-cream, even if you are visiting in the dead of winter. Trust us.
C Swig and swing
Just 45 minutes from the heart of Adelaide, McLaren Vale is a winning combination of good food, great wines and stunning beaches. Do the McMurtrie Mile and sample the area’s wineries, beer, food and art. Or combine your love for wine and golf with Serafino’s Stay, Play, Putt package. If you happen to be in the area on a Saturday morning, be sure to head over to nearby Willunga for one of South Australia’s best farmers’ markets.
D Say cheese
The owners of this family owned cheesery started out with just two goats on a milk farm that soon grew to 40, so making cheese became a natural next step. Join the wine and cheese masterclass where you’ll create a selection of feta, camembert and ricotta. You can even “ta pao” your creations as a souvenir.
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Strawberry fields
forever
Picking strawberries at Beerenberg Farm will spoil you for life. Huge, luscious berries, red and ripe between mid-October to April, just waiting to be picked. Even if you visit out of season, the farm shop is open seven days a week and stocks a full range of Beerenberg’s own condiments, jams, dessert sauces and a range of ceramic tableware guaranteed to bring out the Martha Stewart in you.
F I love brew
Adelaide Hills isn’t just home to European styled vineyards. There is also a variety of microbreweries if you fancy something other than wine. Check out the award-winning Lobethal Bierhaus and try any one — or all 12, if you’re not the designated driver — of the different varieties of beer available on tap. While you’re in the area, continue down the road to Hahndorf, Australia’s oldest surviving German settlement, for a quaint slice of Europe and a surprisingly good shopping fix.
G You know the name
Penfolds Winery is a name that is synonymous with the Barossa, red wine capital of Australia. Here you get to step into the very same lab as the experts to make and bottle your own blend of wine. Do not leave the area without dropping in on Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop and learn from this Aussie food legend how to use Verjuice in your cooking. That’s a sort of vinegar made from the juice of unfermented grapes, by the way.
H Taste a vintage from your birth year
Ever wondered what wine as old as you would taste like? Behind the stone walls of the Seppeltsfield winery is a barrel of tawny port for each year since, incredibly, 1878. The Centenary Tour gets you a private tasting of super premium fortified wines, as well as a tasting of your birth year Tawny and the legendary 100 year old Para Vintage Tawny. All for only AUS$60 a person.
I Eat, drink, sleep
You must visit the Barossa Farmers Market. Held every Saturday, it’s bursting at the seams with local producers showcasing the best that the surrounding land has to offer. These very stalls provide over 80 per cent of the fresh produce used in the kitchens of Appellation at The Louise, widely recognised as a world-class dining destination. Cap off your visit to the area with an idyllic vineyard stay.
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Wine adventure
d’Arenberg Winery
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Don’t miss this joint
The Elbow Room
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Swig and swing
McLaren Vale
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Say cheese
Udder Delights
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Strawberry fields forever
Beerenberg Farm
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I love brew
Lobethal Bierhaus
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You know the name
Penfolds Winery
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Taste a vintage from your birth year
Seppeltsfield Village
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Eat, drink, sleep
Barossa Valley
We’d suggest exploring the d’Arenberg Winery region in a 4WD or soar above the vineyards in a vintage biplane before playing winemaker for the day and create your own ultimate vino souvenir. Expert staff at The Blending Bench will guide you through the art of winemaking let you choose your favourite blend to bottle, label and take home. If all that wine making makes you hungry, d’Arry’s Verandah Restaurant serves up a two or three course seasonal menu, expertly created to show off d’Arenberg’s wines.
darenberg.com.au B Don’t miss this joint
Toasty and warm in winter, the bi-fold doors to this airy, high-ceilinged room are thrown open in the warmer months, inviting the vine-covered vistas indoors. Although local seafood is strongly featured on the menu, it is the harvest from the chef’s own kitchen garden and produce from the local farmers’ market that steals the show. Desserts are beautifully crafted. Go for the ice-cream, even if you are visiting in the dead of winter. Trust us.
theelbowroom.com.au C Swig and swing
Just 45 minutes from the heart of Adelaide, McLaren Vale is a winning combination of good food, great wines and stunning beaches. Do the McMurtrie Mile and sample the area’s wineries, beer, food and art. Or combine your love for wine and golf with Serafino’s Stay, Play, Putt package. If you happen to be in the area on a Saturday morning, be sure to head over to nearby Willunga for one of South Australia’s best farmers’ markets.
serafinowines.com.au D Say cheese
The owners of this family owned cheesery started out with just two goats on a milk farm that soon grew to 40, so making cheese became a natural next step. Join the wine and cheese masterclass where you’ll create a selection of feta, camembert and ricotta. You can even “ta pao” your creations as a souvenir.
udderdelights.com.au E Strawberry fields forever
Picking strawberries at Beerenberg Farm will spoil you for life. Huge, luscious berries, red and ripe between mid-October to April, just waiting to be picked. Even if you visit out of season, the farm shop is open seven days a week and stocks a full range of Beerenberg’s own condiments, jams, dessert sauces and a range of ceramic tableware guaranteed to bring out the Martha Stewart in you.
beerenberg.com.au F I love brew
Adelaide Hills isn’t just home to European styled vineyards. There is also a variety of microbreweries if you fancy something other than wine. Check out the award-winning Lobethal Bierhaus and try any one — or all 12, if you’re not the designated driver — of the different varieties of beer available on tap. While you’re in the area, continue down the road to Hahndorf, Australia’s oldest surviving German settlement, for a quaint slice of Europe and a surprisingly good shopping fix.
beerenberg.com.au G You know the name
Penfolds Winery is a name that is synonymous with the Barossa, red wine capital of Australia. Here you get to step into the very same lab as the experts to make and bottle your own blend of wine. Do not leave the area without dropping in on Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop and learn from this Aussie food legend how to use Verjuice in your cooking. That’s a sort of vinegar made from the juice of unfermented grapes, by the way.
penfolds.com H Taste a vintage from your birth year
Ever wondered what wine as old as you would taste like? Behind the stone walls of the Seppeltsfield winery is a barrel of tawny port for each year since, incredibly, 1878. The Centenary Tour gets you a private tasting of super premium fortified wines, as well as a tasting of your birth year Tawny and the legendary 100 year old Para Vintage Tawny. All for only AUS$60 a person.
seppeltsfield.com.au I Eat, drink, sleep
You must visit the Barossa Farmers Market. Held every Saturday, it’s bursting at the seams with local producers showcasing the best that the surrounding land has to offer. These very stalls provide over 80 per cent of the fresh produce used in the kitchens of Appellation at The Louise, widely recognised as a world-class dining destination. Cap off your visit to the area with an idyllic vineyard stay.
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