Limestone Coast Wineries

The Limestone Coast of South Australia is internationally known for its superb wine. It is located halfway between Adelaide, South Australia and Melbourne, Victoria.

Its perfect wine growing conditions stem from its rich terra rossa soil, a Mediterranean climate fanned by westerly summer sea breezes, creating slow cool grape ripening conditions and vineyards fed by pure underground streams of water.

The Limestone Coast region consists of a number of separate wine growing areas. The Padthaway wine region is known for its sparkling white, and red and white table wines. It is full of historic vineyards that produce premium grapes with intensity and flavour - Seppelts and Padthaway estate are some of the best known.

The Coonawarra wine region is 20 mins south of Naracoorte. Coonawarra wineries have perfect terra rossa soil with slightly higher clay content than the rest of the region, combined with well draining limestone soil cover. They have an unnaturally high pure underground water table and a long cool ripening season.

This region is known for its world class Cabernet Sauvignon and Coonawarra Shiraz. The area is only 12km long and 2km wide and boasts over 20 cellar doors to visit and sample, making a Coonawarra holiday a wine connoisseur's dream.

Some lesser known regions are the Wrattonbully wine region, the Robe Ranges wine region and the Mt Benson wine region.

Mt Gambier is the newest region with the first vines planted in 1982. Mt Gambier South Australia is also known for its blue lake - a 90 m deep crater lake that turns deep azure blue in summer.

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