Are you looking for a vine change but don't want to give up lattes, good restaurants and the Fringe?
An hour from Adelaide and in one of the world's iconic wine regions, this property may have everything you have been looking for.
Strait Gate comprises 20 acres of land with a mature, 14 acre, premium, vineyard, a stylish and comfortable homestead, a restored cottage and lots of shedding. What's more its smack in the middle of some of the best dirt in the Barossa and, arguably, in the world for making red wines.
It has a great fruit contract history with Peter Lehmann and Henschke Wines. Quality bore water and full dripper irrigation is in place should the Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo or gnarly old Grenache vines need any help. The vineyard is 2 years into a program to make it fully biodynamic. All herbicide use was stopped in 2007.
The original 1 bedroomed cottage has been renovated sensitively with a spectacular spa bathroom and enjoys orchard and vineyard views. It has been run as a profitable BandB in the past.
The separate 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom room house is a stroll through the indoor, heated swimming pool area away from the cottage.
With its extensive, shady, verandas and cottage-style wooden floors and windows the homestead is a great place to relax after a day in the vineyard or touring this great wine region. All modern conveniences are in place with a stunning, new house bathroom. Both residences have air conditioning and slow combustion wood fires.
There are vines to each side of the homestead and cottage and a fenced, drip- irrigated orchard boasting established olive, quince, apricot, persimmon, kumquat, orange pomegranate, fig, lemon and kaffir lime trees.
The property has quality shedding with roof insulation, concrete floors and significant rainwater catchment to tanks. Subject to licencing, the larger of the sheds could be used for wine processing and the adjacent big, old double-brick shed with water and power, would make a great cellar door, offices or hobbyists paradise.
The property is minute away from the city-standard services and shopping in Nuriootpa. Its and even closer to the very well known Barossa Farmers Market, the quiet, leafy streets of Penrice and the restaurants and coffee shops in Angaston.
