{"id":2357,"date":"2014-06-19T18:28:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T08:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.lewisdrafting.com.au\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2014-08-02T10:51:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T00:51:56","slug":"barossa-valley-south-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"Barossa Valley…. South Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What started as a relaxing day exploring new spots in the Barossa (including Bethany, which we loved), turned into an absolute gourmet day !!!!!<\/p>\n

Morning tea at Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop, wine tasting at Whistler Wines and then probably one of the most incredible meals we have experienced, and believe me, we have visited some of Australia’s best restaurants, enjoying a late lunch at Hentley Farm Restaurant…..\u00a0 www.hentleyfarm.com.au<\/p>\n

What was supposed to be a 4 course degustation meal became 7 courses with matching wines.<\/p>\n

It was more than just a wine tasting and great food at Hentley Farm. The cellar door is warm and inviting from the moment you enter the front door, and each tasting room offers a seated intimate one-on-one tasting with passionate and knowledgeable staff. Local artists adorn the walls of this old farm cottage and shearer\u2019s quarters, as well as original tallies and markings from the shearers all those years ago, the oldest found dating back to 1901. The award-wining Hentley Farm Restaurant, housed in the lovingly restored 1880\u2019s horse stables was incredible. The food menu is created and prepared with the same pursuit of excellence, thought for sustainability, regional focus, and modern approach as is carried out in both the vineyard and winery. Dishes are designed around the core of what Hentley Farm does – making exceptional wines reflective of their single estate vineyard. Each dish is created to enhance the individual flavours, aromas or textures of each wine. Service is warm, articulate, knowledgeable and authentic, from the very chefs who have prepared the dishes upon which we dined.<\/div>\n
Try, an earthen bowl of raw trevalla in a tangy lemon and parsnip cream finished with a nutty, puffed wild rice crust. The courses were so unusual it is hard to describe them, but on leaving we were given a beautifully presented menu addressed to each of us by name individually showing the dishes we enjoyed and the date we enjoyed them.<\/div>\n
Oh well, back to the caravan for a sleep. Tomorrow we head to Flinders Ranges…BBQs and campfires !<\/div>\n
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Loved Maggie’s preserves. If I did not have so many possums, my fruit tress would end up looking like this!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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One of Maggie and Colin’s pheasants<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Maggie Beer… when ever we meet her she is always smiling. She wanted to use our kitchen for a week at Brundah in Ballina, but we had guests booked in. It would have been so much fun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The knife maker (cutler) at Seppeltsfield winery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A very small section of the Hentley Farm Restaurant… I was too busy having a good time to take too many photos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Chef from Hentley Farm Restaurant, Lachlan Colwill with some tasty morsels…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mal at Seppeltsfield Winery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Whistler Wines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Wow… What started as a relaxing day exploring new spots in the Barossa (including Bethany, which we loved), turned into an absolute gourmet day !!!!! Morning tea at Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop, wine tasting at Whistler Wines and then probably one of the most incredible meals we have experienced, and believe me, we have visited … Continue reading Barossa Valley…. South Australia<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants","category-uluru-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.ripple.farm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}