New owners and a top winemaker take a Clare Valley stalwart to new heights.
A pint of thick black Guinness is probably the first thing that pops into your head if you think about what to drink to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. Or perhaps a generous warming nip of Jamieson, or Tullamore Dew, or one of the many other
Skillogalee Estate in the Clare Valley of South Australia. The winery has a cellar door, restaurant and charming accommodation. The town of Clare, in South Australia’s Clare Valley, was named by early settler, Edward “Paddy” Gleeson, who arrived in the colony in 1838, and had grown up in County Clare. Other Irish settlers brought with them their family names and place names and language, most prominently on display in one of the region’s top vineyards., has one of this country’s most thoroughly Irish-sounding winery names – was first planted in the early 1970s by Spencer and Margaret George .
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