News and Events
Friday 6 April “Wines with Texture” 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Rusden Benchmark Interactive Wine Sessionsare held on the first Friday of every month. Drinks in the cellar door with the Rusden family. Share and explore wines from Australia and around the world, tasted alongside a locally sourced shared meal. Rusden Wines, Vine Vale
Friday Fiestas at El Estanco
Kick back in the courtyard or inside in the cosy rooms of the old cottage. 6pm – 10.30pm
Fri 23 March – Espanol Notte
Fri 30 March – Paella and Sangria
Fri 13 April – Wood Oven Pizza Night
El Estanco, Greenock
Friday 30 March 11am – 5pm
Raise your glass to Easter! Four days to enjoy food and wine at Lambert Estate Winery,Angaston. Kick off the Easter Weekend with a special Seafood Platter on Good Friday.
Friday 23 March
Bedford Noodle Market
Food, wine & music
Peter Lehmann Wines, Tanunda
Saturday 7 April 12.30pm – 4.30pm
Flaxman Long Lunch
A leisurely long lunch held on the first Saturday of each month. A five course degustation meal is paired with back vintage wines. Enjoy either dining outside overlooking the vineyard or inside in the cellar door. Flaxman Wines, Flaxman Valley
Sunday 25 March
1918 Bistro and Grill, Tanunda
Brunch in a beautiful garden setting with live music by local artists
We always appreciate it when our guests take the time to fill in our feedback forms after their stay with us, or, communicate with us during their stay, as it helps us to keep a close touch on what our guests needs are. In response to a recent guest suggestion, we have put together a self-cook barbecue and salad pack with meat sourced from our quality local butcher, Thornbys Fine Meats in Tanunda. Tasty lamb loin chops, yearling rib-eye steak and locally made sausages. Vego packs are also available with tasty vegetable patties and vegetable kebabs with mushrooms, tomato, onion, capsicum and halloumi cheese.
Now available: Self-cook bbq packs
Make your first night with us relaxing and easy. Contact us to pre-order prior to your arrival and enjoy a relaxing BBQ in your private terrace overlooking the lake.
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A midweek time out commencing April
Enjoy the beautiful colours of Autumn in the Barossa with the leaves of the vines turning red and golden hues.
Recently the experience and service we provide has been recognized by a number of awards and recognition within the industry. A big thankyou to our guests who took their time to share their experience and review their stay on Booking.com
- Booking.com 2017 award winner
- Travel and Hospitality Awards winner, The Award for Excellence in Service 2018 for South Australia.
- SA’s Most Instagrammable places to stay
Brand SA’s list of 11 of South Australia’s most spectacular places to stay, Stonewell Cottages is one of them! - Trivago Top 5 places to stay in the Barossa
Stonewell Cottages made Trivago’s list of The Barossa Valley’s most beautiful accommodation!
At Stonewell Cottages and Vineyards, vintage began already a couple of weeks ago with Evan harvesting 14 tonne of Grenache for Turkey Flat’s Rose. We are now in full swing, last week was a big week, with hand picking of the old vine Shiraz block on Mattiske Road done on Wednesday for Chateau Tanunda. The harvester has been operating around the clock, another couple of blocks of Shiraz came off during the week, for Barossa Valley Estate, Torbreck and Soul Growers, the block of Tempranillo which is directly behind the Hideaway Cottage came off Friday morning. More Shiraz will come off this week for Langmeil Winery as well as some handpicking of Shiraz for Barossa Valley Estate. With much of the machine harvesting done during the cool of night, Evan used to think that this lack of sleep during vintage was hard, but he reckons he has been “re-calibrated” now that he has a 4 year old and an 8 month old baby at home, where a whole night’s sleep is a distant memory!
Several of our guests have been lucky enough to come out with Evan, ride on the harvester and see it all in action. If you are staying with us before the end of this month, please let us know if you are interested in coming out to the vineyard. We are scheduled to handpick our old vine Grenache next to Cupid’s Cottage next Thursday just before Easter, so we will happily give you a bucket and snips to help!! If you are really lucky, you might even get to take a ride in Evan’s “tough” 1974 Kenworth for one of the deliveries to the local wineries!
After a burst of hot weather the temperatures are now in the mid 20’s to early 30’s, perfect ripening weather. 2018 is shaping up to be a good vintage, great colour and flavour. Vintage is the busiest time of the year for us, and it’s when we finally get to reap the reward of a years work, day in day out, of tending the vines to bare their best quality. As long as the grapes hang out there, they are subjected to the many variables that the climate can throw up, so it is a relief and cause for celebration to get the grapes off and safely into the winery. Seeing their beautiful rich purple colour in the crusher always puts a smile on Evan’s face!
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