Nuriootpa

Nuriootpa is at the top of the Barossa Valley, probably South Australia's most famous wine district. We've visited the valley several times before, most recently when we stayed at Gawler (which is at the foot of the valley) last year, but also in previous South Australian holidays. The Barossa specialises in full bodied red wine, we usually only drink white so weren't really interested in visiting any of the 77 cellar doors listed on the tourist map we picked up (besides, you'd need to stay for at least a month to do justice to them all). We did, however, stop at a couple of cool climate wineries as we drove through the Clare Valley on the way here, picking up some lovely crisp Riesling, which is much more to our taste.

Instead of wineries we explored some of the marked walking trails around the valley, and had several lovely lunches in the numerous cafes, pubs and boutique breweries that always go hand in hand with any wine district. Unfortunately the weather hasn't been particularly kind to us here, so we only got in one of the games of golf we had planned, however that turned out to be a profitable one as, although we both played pretty ordinarily, Wendy managed a good shot on the one hole that really counts and came away with a $75 voucher for winning the pro-pin.