Clare Valley Gallery
The vines, the grapes and the stone cellar doors the days call at. Browsing wine tours Clare Valley first? These are the places you will see from the van.
The first frame is the valley in winter, the vines bare under a dusk sky with a low range behind. Then the fruit that made the region's name: a bunch of ripe white grapes beside a vine leaf turning yellow at the end of the season.
The rest is the cellar doors and what sits behind them. A stone cellar door carries a painted winemaker's sign under its eaves, and a long tasting room has a wood fire burning at one end. Barrels sit in rows down the wall of a cellar cut into stone, and a small tour van waits on a village street for its next pickup.






Plan the practical side on visiting the Clare Valley. The cellar doors the tours call at are on Clare Valley wineries, short answers are on the blog, and every fare is on Clare Valley Tours.