Where every bottle has a story.
From sixth-generation vineyards to long lunches under the gums - your guide to the Barossa's cellar doors, kitchens and back roads.
In the Barossa today
Saturday, 25 July · live from Barossa Valley
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Where to Begin
Distinctive districts, each with its own character - here's where to start.
Tanunda
The Barossa's largest and most German town, lined with bakeries, cellar doors and Lutheran churches.
Nuriootpa
The Barossa's busy commercial centre, home to Penfolds and the historic Linke's Bakery.
Angaston
A handsome eastern Barossa town with a strong English heritage and the Saturday farmers market.
Itineraries & Guides
Wild Barossa: The Valley's Green Edges
The Barossa is framed by a ring of wild places - conservation parks, forest reserves and bush reserves where kangaroos outnumber tourists. Here's where to find them.
June 2026 · 6 min read
Mount Pleasant: The Barossa's Southern Gate
Most visitors enter the Barossa from the south-west and never see Mount Pleasant. They're missing a proper country town with one of the region's best markets.
June 2026 · 5 min read
The Gold Rush the Barossa Forgot
Wine country once rang with picks and shovels. The Barossa Goldfields drew thousands of diggers in 1868 - and today three quiet walking trails explore what they left.
June 2026 · 5 min read
Top 10 lists
Our editorial shortlists - the best beaches, walks, wildlife moments and free things to do across the Barossa Valley.
The 10 best Barossa cellar doors
From century-old icons to organic upstarts
The best places to eat in the Barossa
Hatted degustations, farm eateries and the valley's great bakeries
The Best Bakeries in the Barossa
Pasties, vanilla slices, sourdough and German crumb cake - where to find the valley's best baking.
The Best Free Things to Do in the Barossa
Lookouts, walking trails, sculpture and heritage - proof you don't need a cellar-door budget to enjoy the valley.
The Whole Region
Every place we've curated, plotted on the map. Click a marker to explore.
Recently added
Sandy Creek Conservation Park
A birdwatcher's reserve of sandy rises, native pine and pink gum near Lyndoch, with more than 130 bird species recorded.
The Barossa Trail
A 40 km sealed cycling and walking path linking Gawler, Lyndoch, Tanunda, Nuriootpa and Angaston through vineyard country.
Map the Miner
Kapunda's 7-metre Cornish miner - "Map Kernow, Son of Cornwall" - one of Australia's Big Things, rebuilt after a 2006 fire.
Kapunda Museum
Two packed floors of copper-town history in a grand 1866 Romanesque former Baptist church, run by volunteers since 1971.
Kapunda Mine Historic Site
The open cuts, chimney and ruins of Australia's first successful metal mine, worked for copper from 1844 to 1879, with an interpretive trail.
Seppelt Family Mausoleum
A Doric-columned Grecian tomb of 1927 on a quartzite ridge above Seppeltsfield's avenue of palms, resting place of the famous wine dynasty.
Places we love
Whistler Wines
$$A relaxed, family-friendly cellar door at Marananga with lawns, a playground, food and resident bird life.
Goat Square, Tanunda
A historic colonial square in Tanunda, the original village market place, ringed by some of the town's oldest cottages.
Teusner Wines
$$A acclaimed small Barossa producer near Nuriootpa, known for old-vine Grenache and Shiraz made with a light, modern touch.
Yelland & Papps
$$$A small, forward-thinking producer making minimal-intervention Barossa wines that sidestep the region's big-and-bold cliche.
Murray Street Vineyards
$$$A handsome cellar door under the gum trees at Greenock, pouring serious single-vineyard reds with platters on the lawn.
Mengler Hill Sculpture Trail
FreeA short hilltop walking loop dotted with stone sculptures, beside the Barossa's most famous lookout.
Bethany Wines
$$A sixth-generation family cellar door perched in the ranges above Tanunda, with one of the prettiest valley views in the Barossa.
Mountadam Vineyards
$$$One of the Eden Valley's pioneering high-altitude estates, famous for chardonnay grown on its own granite-and-quartz hilltop.