The best wines of the Barossa Valley.
The Barossa Valley in South Australia is Australia’s best-known wine region, both nationally and internationally. It is located 70km north of Adelaide and is South Australia’s most visited tourist destination. It was originally named the Barrosa Valley by Colonel Light , after the “Hill of Roses” region in Spain where he fought in the Spanish Peninsula War. The name Barossa was a corruption due to the general illiteracy of the times. The Barossa Valley started developing as a wine centre in the late 1830s when German Lutherans came to the newly founded colony of South Australia to escape religious persecution.