Summary
Like Edinburgh, Adelaide has amazing arts events. It also has wineries, 'eat streets' and kangaroos
If you're going to spend a day touring wineries in one of Australia's most important wine-making regions, you want someone else to do the driving. And if you're going to be driven, you might as well be chauffeured in style. So I'm feeling like the bee's knees when I arrive in the Barossa Valley in a stately black 1962 Daimler with private tour operator and wine expert John Baldwin at the wheel. He tells me the "old girl" - once part of the Queen's fleet in Australia - is a car designed to be seen in. It works both ways - reclining on the plush leathers, I have a perfect panoramic view.See the full content of this document
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The Other Festival City
Barossa is the home of some of Australia's most famous wine brands - Penfolds, Jacob's Creek, Wolf Blass, Peter Lehmann - and produces some of the New World's richest reds. There are more than 60 "cellar doors" ready to put the "bar" into Barossa, from multi- million pound exporters to boutique wineries, offering visitors a chance to taste their wares.
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