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Renowned Adelaide Hills winery, Shaw + Smith, has extended and fully renovated the Tasting Room at their Balhannah winery.
The reimagined Tasting Room is once again a collaboration between Chris Connell (Hero at ACMI, Caffe e Cucina, Melbourne Wine Room, Bar Carolina and Il Bacaro) and JBG Architects, who designed the original Tasting Room back in 2000.
The Tasting Room has since gone onto win numerous awards including Best Tasting Experience and Best Large Cellar Door on multiple occasions.
The new Tasting Room is very much an extension of the old utilising the same steep-pitched roof design, modern flat-roofed Tasting Room and recycled timber flooring throughout. It will have a seated capacity of 60 indoors, 40 outdoor on the terrace, and a new private tasting area for up to 12 people.
Shaw + Smith co-founder, Martin Shaw, who has very much driven the project from inception, said that they had started to outgrow their original space.
“We will now be able to accommodate more people, particularly in winter when space is limited, give more attention to our wine club members, offer a private dining space to visitors and broaden our general wine education offering.”
Visitors can purchase various wine flights with or without up to eight cold larder dishes that can be ordered individually or paired with wines. Those who are not up to the formality of a wine flight can order wines by the glass or bottle and enjoy the 180-degree views over the vineyard and dam.
For the first time, the Tasting Room will also have a food offering. A selection of cold larder in the form of eight starter-sized dishes will be available to order.
“These have been curated to pair with a wine flight or individually. In addition to this, we have teamed up with highly rated Adelaide chef and restaurateur, Andre Ursini of Orso, to cater for private events, which people can now book.”
“We have always loved Andre’s food so having Orso on-board is quite a coup.”
You can find Shaw + Smith at 136 Jones Rd Balhannah.
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