Nearly 50 new cellar door experiences across SA

Distinctive funded initiatives embrace interactive wine experiences within the Adelaide Hills, wine barrel tasting pods in McLaren Vale, grapevine charcoal drawing workshops within the Barossa and an audio-visual wine tasting expertise within the Clare Valley.

Minister for Main Industries and Regional Improvement David Basham mentioned wineries thought exterior the sq. to construct their tourism and hospitality providing in accessing the ‘Distinctive Wine Experiences Fund Grant Program’.

“With COVID-19 restrictions impacting cellar door commerce, this grant program was created to offer an financial stimulus by attracting guests to wineries throughout South Australia,” Minister Basham mentioned.

“Our funding has unlocked greater than $500,000 price of recent initiatives which can encourage extra individuals to go to our great countryside to expertise a few of South Australia’s improbable cellar doorways and assist assist for our regional economies and native jobs.

“The wine business is a key financial driver for South Australia producing greater than $2 billion in income per yr and I’m excited to see the virtually 50 new cellar door experiences come to fruition.

“The initiatives, starting from cellar door upgrades and enhancements, to a multi-sensorial and interactive tasting-in-the-dark wine expertise, will enhance customer experiences and create must-visit locations.

“2021 is the 12 months of South Australian Wine and these initiatives have been designed to assist cellar doorways maximise their direct gross sales alternatives from the robust home tourism we’re experiencing proper throughout the state.

“South Australians are rightly pleased with our state’s wine business and now, within the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, are exploring the areas like by no means earlier than.

“Our state’s 18 picturesque wine areas are the envy of the world, and these grants will assist develop further premium wine experiences in each area.

“With 50 per cent of all of Australia’s bottled wine and nearly 80 per cent of Australia’s premium wine produced right here, there is no such thing as a doubt South Australia is the ‘Wine State’.”

“I’d encourage each South Australian to take the time to discover what’s on their very doorstep.

“This program builds on the Authorities’s $5.4 million State Funds initiative to broaden and diversify wine export markets.”

Distinctive Wine Experiences Fund Grant Program – Challenge Record

Adelaide & Hills

• $5,000 – Ashton Hills Winery – Immersive Pinot Noir winery and vineyard tour.
• $5,000 – Barristers Block Wines – Overhead heating within the Hay Shed to create all climate area for teams.
• $5,000 – Lazy Ballerina – Outside kitchen for meals and wine experiences.
• $5,000 – Patritti – City excursions, mixing courses, capabilities, member and personal tasting customer expertise.
• $3,900 – Sinclairs Gully – Interactive purple winemaking expertise.
• $5,000 – Shaw + Smith – Refit of the Wine Tasting Room to reinforce experiences.
• $5,000 – Somerled Wines – Creation of a personal tasting space for tastings with Somerled proprietor Rob Moody.

Barossa Valley

• $5,000 – Artisans of Barossa – 5 Senses Tasting wine expertise.
• $5,000 – Ballycroft Winery and Cellars – Helicopter touchdown web site accessibility for vineyard guests.
• $3,000 – Gibson Wines – ‘A Day with The Dirtman’ distinctive expertise with Rob Gibson.
• $5,000 – Gomersal Wines – Cellar Door improve for eating, bespoke operate packages and wine experiences.
• $4,999 – Greenock Creek Wines – Interactive Cellar Door wine expertise growth.
• $3,250 – Hayes Household Wines – Bettering on-line reserving and reservation functionality.
• $3,777 – Lou Miranda Property – Winemaking tour and wine mixing class.
• $5,000 – Seppeltsfield – ‘Nice Terrace Winery Tour’.
• $2,500 – Steinborner & Reynolds Household Vineyards – Charcoal drawing and manufacturing courses.
  *$5,000 – The Slicing – Tasting platform within the winery.

Clare Valley

• $5,000 – Kilikanoon Wines – A tasting hut within the Morrison Winery for wine tasting and schooling.
• $4,500 – Knappstein Enterprise Vineyard – ‘Terroir to Desk’ guided winery tour.
• $4,750 – Matriarch and Rogue Wines – Eco-friendly pop-up Cellar Door.
• $5,000 – Mount Horrocks Wines – Audio-visual and wine tasting expertise.
• $5,000 – Paulett Wines – Digitally interactive degustation luncheon expertise.
• $5,000 – Sevenhill Cellars – Pop-up bell tent winemaker tastings and personal capabilities.

Coonawarra

• $3,200 – Koonara Wines – Cellar Door façade and seating capability improve.

Eden Valley

• $1,522 – Paisley Wines – ‘Paisley Revealed’ and ‘Paisley Winery Household’ customer experiences.
• $3,220 – Poonawatta – Customer picnic space and Cellar Door extension.

Eyre Peninsula

• $1,522 – The Gardner’s Winery – Set up of vacationer signage.
  McLaren Vale
• $5,000 – Agostino Wines – Cellar Door and youngsters’s play space improve.
• $5,000 – Accolade Wines – Multisensorial and interactive tasting at nighttime wine expertise.
• $1,177 – Seaside Highway Wines – Fleurieu produce and tasting wine expertise.
• $5,000 – Bec Hardy Wines – ‘Forty Years of Pertaringa’ and ‘From the Sea and Vines’ wine experiences.
• $5,000 – Beresford Wines – Personalised wine label printing expertise.
• $5,000 – Berg Herring Wines – ‘Wine Barrel Tasting Pods’ wine expertise.
• $5,000 – Chalk Hill Wines – Guided ‘5 Senses Odyssey’ wine expertise.
• $5,000 – Foggo Wines – ‘Foggotoni flights’ and fortified cocktail making masterclass wine expertise.
• $3,215 – Hither and Yon – ‘Willunga Wander’ Cellar Door tour.
• $5,000 – Kay Brothers Wine and Olive Firm – Outside viewing deck and nature play-space.
• $5,000 – Lloyd Brothers Wine – Cellar Door lighting, furnishings and glassware improve.
• $5,000 – Loom Wine – New meals program to reinforce the Cellar Door wine expertise.
• $5,000 – Oliver’s Taranga Vineyards – Guided Taranga Terroir showcase wine expertise.
• $5,000 – Pirramimma Wines – Winery viewing hut with historic presentation.

Mount Benson

• $5,000 – Cape Jaffa Wines – Underground Barrel Corridor guided tasting and vineyard tour customer expertise.

Riverland

• $5,000 – Whistling Kite Biodynamic Winery – ‘Make Your Personal Magic’ wine expertise.
• $5,000 – Prime Block Wines – Viewing platform for showcasing small-scale wine manufacturing.

Southern Fleurieu

• $5,000 – Charlotte Dalton Wines – The Joinery at Manufacturing facility 9 outside seating space.

Yorke Peninsula

• $5,000 – Barley Stacks Wines – Cellar Door improve.
• $3,125 – Emoyeni Wines – Outside synthetic garden space and upgraded carpark