April and her awesome holidays - it's definitely my favourite month in the calendar! This time, I grab Dee and Julie and head to Adelaide and the Barossa for wine and cheese tasting.
Adelaide is a very pretty town, like a small Melbourne, but without Melbourne's definite worldliness, history or coolness.
We head to Barossa on the first day of the long weekend, stopping off at Torbreck to try a little of that $240 bottle of shiraz, then it's off to visit other boutique wineries, including the crowded Rockford Wines withs its very tasty blends and the 'ye olde' grandness of Seppeltsfield with its 100 year old Para success.
We also make a pitstop at Maggie Beer's famous Pheasant Farm and fight the throngs of geriatric foodies to try some of her delicious produce.
After a full day, we head back to Adelaide feeling quite tippled and traipse out to dinner at a Spanish bar in town. Strangely, we are stared at as we walk in the joint by Adelaide's movers and shakers. It wasn't entirely unfriendly but not friendly as well - you could hear the crickets in the first 15 seconds of our arrival as 30 pairs of eyes viewed us, leading Dee to comment that people in Adelaide had a staring problem. Nevertheless, we have cocktails and tapas and forget the stares and soon head off to join friends at another bar in town, then a club and a
nother bar. Finally, we head back at 3am after having to ask the local constabulary the way home.
Feeling a little seedy but with a steely resolve set by our minimal time here, we nominate a driver and head off to the Adelaide Hills district for more wine tasting. We stop off first at Hahndorff, a little kitschy German town for bratwursts and brunch. This is followed by wineries, the most notable were the rich reds at Bird in Hand and the wonderfully minimalist (and very Sydney) tasting rooms at Shaw & Smith.
Ahhh Adelaide - with more knowledge of shirazs and 5 bottles to
imbibe, I bade the staring city adieu!
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