Where is the Barossa Valley wine region?
Without doubt the most famous of Australia’s wine regions is the Barossa Valley. Something of an institution with Australian wine lovers, the area has a personality all its own. This character is mainly due to the Barossa’s large German population who began to arrive in 1842. Having sought a new start in a new land, not possible in their homeland, many hundreds of German Lutherans were settled on the huge properties of George Fife Angas. Many of these immigrants had already been involved in viticulture in Germany and soon planted vine cuttings they had brought with them to Australia. Click Here to see our exclusive range of Barossa Valley Wine. Significant amongst these first commercial plantings were those made by Johann Gramp at Rowland Flat, which saw the beginning of the Orlando Company and that of Samuel Smith at Angaston which became Yalumba. The Seppelt family company was established with Joseph Seppelt’s plantings in 1851. The first wines produced in the Barossa were table wine
