Australia: Barossa Valley

Barossa Valley in South Australia is one of the world's most celebrated wine regions, known for its old Shiraz vines — many planted in the 1800s and still own-rooted thanks to the absence of Phylloxera in the region. Old vines yield low volumes of concentrated, powerful wine: deep plum fruit, dark chocolate, and pepper. Grenache and Mourvèdre often feature in GSM blends (Grenache-Shiraz-Mourvèdre). Australia pioneered industrial bottling with screwcaps and revolutionised accessible packaging — now standard in Australia.