Meet Brand's Laira, the Coonawarra Winery With Vines From 1893 and a Cellar Door Built for Weddings
A baker bought a Coonawarra block with two hectares of Shiraz in 1950. Today its 1893 vines still make the winery's flagship red, and the glass-walled cellar door built around Eric Brand's original shed hosts weddings for up to 150 guests.
Meet Hastwell & Lightfoot, the McLaren Vale Family Winery With an Award-Winning Wedding Venue Among the Vines
Two families planted vines on Foggo Road in 1988. Today the second generation of Hastwells makes gold-medal Barbera and Vermentino, and hosts weddings in an Oak Room that has collected South Australian venue awards two years running.