Many in Barossa have a Yabby Tale of jumping fences in muddy boots, sometimes hiding in hedges while dodging shotgun blasts! Times have changed, but we still laugh with family and friends, a glass of white in hand, feasting on the legendary freshwater treat, the Cherax Destructor. 

Life is for living, and the season that epitomises this is spring! Awakening from a winter slumber, the first days of spring bring budburst and a renewed enthusiasm for fun and frivolity. Our Spring Fever brings out the best in everyone and is worthy of a celebration with good friends and great food!

A Barossa institution since 1858, the Kegelbahn is where Kegel, the German for skittle, and a bowling game with nine pins instead of ten, is played. Today’s players preserve the values of the game which are enjoyment, friendship and skill, all while sharing fine Barossa wine.

Speaking a local dialect known as ‘Barossa-Deutsch’, a blend of German and English that embodies the history of the district, one of Langmeil’s growers, the late Wally Krieg didn’t curse, just as his forebears didn’t, but in the heat of the vintage was often heard to mutter “Hangin’ Snakes!”.

Malbec is a historic variety originally native to southwest France, whose centre of gravity moved to the southern hemisphere in the late twentieth century. It is renowned for its age-worthy, deeply coloured, rich, and smooth wines. Here in the Barossa, it makes a real Black Beauty of a wine.