Wine lovers of the world - see the wine centre in Australia

Flag of Australia. From Wikipedia.

I love Australian wine - and New Zealand wine. The National Wine Centre of Australia is in South Australia in the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide. Nearby, Australia plans to build a huge hospitality hub.
Free tours daily at 11.30 am.

One of the delights of drinking in Australia and New Zealand is the number of BYO restaurants. Bring your own means they do not insist on your drinking their bottles of wine with a hug mark up and their selection. Instead you can pop into a nearby wine seller and buy the wine of your choice, maybe your favourite, and the restaurant will charge corkage to cover the cost of the glasses ans service, but you get to drink your favourite wine and pay less than regular restaurant wine prices.

The National Wine Centre of Australia, designed to resemble a barrel. Photo by Scott W in Wikipedia.

But which wine? A trip to the National Wine Centre of Australia may put you in the picture. Their Enomatic machine dispenses more than 100 wines, to plenty of choice. If you are used to the Enomatic you know how it eats money and makes you poorer and happier very fast. Fortunately you can also buy yourself food in the Cellar Door restaurant. What else, label and corkscrews and panels with questions. A comprehensive array of colour pictures is on Tripadvisor if you have the time and patience to flip through them all.

What else to see and do in Adelaide?
The chocolate factory. The beer producers, Coopers' Brewery, runs tours and makes a charge which goes to charity. Off to wine country of the Barossa Valley, MclarenVale, and Clare Vale.

Around Adelaide are several museums, featuring the history of Adelaide which was settled by free people not convicts. (Funny, I thought I had heard that said about Melbourne.) See the art museums, free museums. And the Zoo.

Chinatown, Adelaide, South Australia. Photo by Scott

Adelaide was named after the wife of King William IV in the early 1800s. The traditional buildings include the cathedral. For ethnic eating, there's Chinatown.

(nwc.info@adelaide.edu.au, fax: +61 8 8303 7444), [3]. M-F 09:00-17:00, Sa-Su & public holidays 11:00-17:00. Tours & tastings 10:00-17:00.

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Wine_Centre_of_Australia
singaporeair.com
https://sg.trip.com/flights/singapore-to-adelaide/tickets-sin-adl/?alliance
https://wineaustralia.com.au/discover-experience/wine-discovery-journey
https://tourism.sa.gov.au/about/regions/adelaide
https://coopers.com.au/#/our-brewery/brewery-tours/brewery-tours/

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. Please share links to your favourite posts.