To that end, visitors can take part in wine tastings and blending classes within the imposing building or enjoy a noon-to-five degustation lunch with matching wines in the award-winning restaurant. A faster meal can be had at the more architecturally traditional – but no less culinarily creative – d’Arry’s Verandah Restaurant.

A little farther out is the Barossa Valley. Top spots in this area include the gorgeous St Hugo winery and restaurant, the Barossa Valley Cheese Company in the quaint town of Angaston, and the pioneering Seppeltsfield winery, founded in 1851 and one of the oldest in Australia. Thanks to the forethought of the founding Seppelt family, who have stored away some of each year’s finest wines since the late 19th century, here you’re able to sample a fortified tawny (you’d call it a port in Portugal) from the year of your birth or another momentous point in history, all the way back to 1878.

Naturally, the food and wine scene in Adelaide reflects its surrounding bounty. At the top of every foodie’s list is Orana, headed by Jock Zonfrillo, a chef of Scottish and Italian heritage who arrived in Australia in the ’90s. Back then, he was surprised by how few native ingredients were used in Australia’s kitchens and how little the traditions of the country’s indigenous peoples had been integrated into contemporary Aussie cuisine.