A wine drinkers dream day.

Today we headed in land to tour around the famous Coonawarra region, home to over 30 different wineries and vineyards.

As luck would have it, each winery is open every day from 10-5pm. They a cellar door policy, enabling you to pop in and for a small fee (or for free in 2 of the 6 we visited) try their various wines, which range from 6 to 14 different wines per winery.

Thankfully each glass was a mouthful, otherwise we may have struggled to get beyond the first stop!

Due to the red soil type, known as Terra Rosa the Coonawarra region produces some great wines notably red, although we did taste some Riesling along with chilled & mixed grape wines, that work really well in the 30 degree heat of South Australia.

After our first stop at the Redman vineyard, we picked up the Coonawarra walking tour, which meanders through vineyards and side roads taking you to 6 wineries all within 3km. One hell of a walking tour!

The sun was in full bloom and hit a slightly uncomfortable 38 Celsius, however the addition of great wine and a gentle drunkenness helped to diminish its effect.

The venues of some of the wineries were very impressive, with restaurants and also offering up as venues for weddings and other major celebrations.

On one of our stops, at Brands & Son’s we were presented with 14 different wines to try, which was a challenge not to be passed up!

Added to this we got to walk around the original ‘cellar’ which housed wines going back to the 1950’s.

Our arrival at the next winery, Ottelia was next level, with a tasting menu to match each wine.

The owner was so very kind and spent over 45mins talking us through the various wines and explaining why they are constantly experimenting with different grape combinations to create new wines that we’ve never seen before, certainly not in the Uk. Chilled reds seem to be the next big thing.

Our 5th wine stop was at the famous Wynns vineyard. They are one of the largest wine producers and export across Australia and the world. The set up was huge, but again the service was great with servers offering 5 or 6 wines to try for just 5 dollars. Needless to say we felt obligated to buy at each of our stops.

On our final stop we came across the world championship boules tournament in downtown Coonawarra, a town of just 76 people. Quite surreal to see teams from as far afield at Thailand coming to play the Aussie version called Pétanque.

Our evening stay was at Bellwether Wines where we were glamping in our campervan and having one final wine tasting event for the day.

The surrounds were amazing and we felt very lucky to be staying in this chic converted sheep shearing farm.

The place was completed refurbished 15yrs ago by Sue Bell and is now a restaurant/boutique winery/kitchen and all round wine central.

Not only were the wines great, but Sue had prepared us a food platter for our evening meal which has to be the best we have eaten since being away. Not only did it look amazing, using herbs and plants for her garden, it tasted fabulous and made our stay so very special.

After finishing off the dips and cheeses, along with a bottle of Chardonnay we retired to enjoy the views from the back of our camper. It felt so special as though we had the whole place to ourselves.

The next few hours were then spent marvelling at the 500yr old gum trees that surrounded our van.