Chateau Dorrien Winery — Attraction in Tanunda

This is a great cellar door to visit in a former winery building. It features a period fitout, a museum display area, a lounge, a bar, and plenty of wine for tasting. The vats have been painted to document the move from Prussia to the Barossa, reflecting the new colony and the development of the local wine industry. The radio and archive collection is unique. In terms of wines, the highlight for me was the mead selection, which I surprisingly liked, and unique white port, which was brilliant. The local area is open and accessible near...

The mede here is fantastic but the building is stuck in a time warp. An absolute gem of a chateau with a lot of wonderful history and facilities, however it's very run down, covered in cobwebs and kitchy artifacts. Definitely not up to the standards of more modern cellar doors near by. It's $5 to sample the products which is waived if you purchase something. I'd love to see what would happen to this place if it was given a healthy makeover and a marketing manager to develop it into an event location. So...

Nice local wine cellar in SA. They gave wine tasting of a range of their product for just $5, to me it's much more worth than tasting the Penfold wine, simply because I don't drink much and it is nice experiencd trying local products during your travel. But of course if you want to taste the wine that you may buy in supermarket maybe the popular brands like Jacob Creek is better choice for wine tasting, but that winery needs...