We headed off early to the winery recommended to us by our neighbour at the caravan park. He said their wine is reasonably priced and they have a good tour.
Google got us there okay, but decided to take us via a number of dirt roads. We didn’t mind – it gives Tiny our 4WD a chance to at least get dirty (if not use all four wheels). We even had our first ‘water crossing’ (about 10cm of water over a creek).
When we arrived at Seppeltsfield, the place was packed. They had a “Hunt for Red in October” promotion and a number of busses were there wine tasting. I tried a few times to find more information about the tour, but everyone seemed to busy to want to talk to me, so we left them to their busy crowd. Winerys are not our favorite thing – and besides… we have boxes of red already in the car.
Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop
This was the main reason we came to the Barossa. Teresa really wanted to visit her farm store and checkout their produce. We first looked around the farm a bit. They have a couple of male peacocks that looked quite tame. There were also cages of more exotic birds like quail and pheasant.
The store contained preserves, ice cream, pates, sauces and her famous ver juice. It was all quality stuff – no filler/junk. Teresa was in heaven!
We picked up some pate (a new range not yet available in shops – duck, orange and ginger), cheeses, some lemon curd and olive oil (freshly pressed!). We thought we’d pick up some fresh bread on the way home and try a bit of everything.
Where’s the Bakery?
Finding a bakery should be easy on a weekend in a tourist location! Well, no. The closest bakery was Tanunda Bakery but Google said they were closed on Sundays. I figured that couldn’t be true as the weekend should be a busy time, so we drove down there. Yep. Closed.
Next we thought Nuriootpa should have a bakery, so we drove there. None open either. Finally, in desperation, we went to Angaston and found a bakery/cafe that had some lovely crispy bagettes.
By the time we got back home, it was about 2:30 and we were starved! Well worth the wait. Lunch was delicious.
(Yes we could have purchased bread at any supermarket, but we wanted a crusty French or Italian style bread we could enjoy with the cheese.)
Hot Rod Festival
The local oval was host to a hot rod / classic car festival today, so after lunch, I went to take a look. There were some wonderfully maintained cars for show, and quite a crowd too.
Our park has been slowly filling up over the last few days with some of the owners of the cars. We hope they’ll depart sometime tomorrow – we like our secluded paradise!
