Château Tanunda Winery

The Château Tanunda is one of the most significant winery buildings in the Barossa Valley built with bluestone quarried from nearby Bethany in the late 1890s, Glasgow cast iron, and French oak, and is a designated monument on the South Australian Heritage Register.

The Château Tanunda was established in 1890 after an opportunity for large wine export to Europe was identified with the drop in supply from a France hit by phylloxera.

[2] The schisty bluestone for the edifice of the building was dug from a quarry in the nearby Bethany, and brick kilns erected at the front of a site chosen on highest point of the Barossa Valley floor, facing south over the first Barossa vineyards.

[6] The business and structure was restored by the Geber family who purchased it in 1998,[7] including building a small batch basket press winery.

[8][9] Château Tanunda produces high quality table wines from the grape varieties Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache, Chardonnay, and Riesling, and was also known for its brandy in the past.