McLaren Vale Wine Tour - Self-Guided GPS Audio Guide

Main Road and the visitor centre anchor the region's densest run of cellar doors, on heavy Biscay clay and red-brown earth that gives full-bodied Shiraz.

Founded in 1912 by Joseph Rowe Osborn and now in the hands of fourth-generation winemaker Chester Osborn, using basket presses for both reds and whites.

Founded in 1894 by Robert Strangways Wigley, a former South Australian state cricketer; the winery sat roofless and vineless for over thirty years before being rebuilt.

On Chaffeys Road, known for its Italianate gardens as much as its wines.

On Kays Road at Amery, where Herbert and Frederick Kay planted Block Six Shiraz on 18 July 1892 into sandy loam over limestone.

Perched on the Seaview ridge with its landmark chapel cellar door, making benchmark Cabernet and Shiraz with firm savoury tannins.

Small-batch wines made in a restored 1853 building on Chaffeys Road, overlooking the Onkaparinga Gorge.

Out on McLaren Flat Road toward Kangarilla, working the elevated eastern sands that give Grenache its purity and fine-grained texture.

On Seaview Road, a small producer drawing on the ancient sands and ironstone of the region's elevated eastern edge.

Founded after Alexander Johnston bought ninety-seven hectares of red earth outside the village in 1892; one of the region's oldest family-owned wineries.

A heritage town of 1840s stone buildings, home to the Willunga Farmers Market every Saturday morning since 2003.

The clifftop above the reef where the Danish barque Star of Greece ran aground in 1888 with the loss of eleven lives.

On Main Road, the modern face of the Tintara estate where Thomas Hardy founded his wine empire in 1853.