By Ken Gargett, Andrew Caillard MW and Tony Love

The Barossa is unquestionably Australia’s most famous wine region. Certainly not the biggest producing district, nor the oldest (although not far off it), this is the name best known by winelovers around the globe. Rightly or wrongly, their iconic, bold, richly flavoured, idiosyncratic reds are often seen as representative of Australian wine in its entirety. That is, of course, very far from the truth, but what is certain is that many of its wines, especially the reds, are some of this country’s finest.