Chateau Yaldara

Best of Class Trophy to 1847 Wines Lily’s Late Harvest 2016

Thursday night  (14th September 2017) was the night of nights for the Barossa winemakers and viticulturists as they dressed up in their formal attire for the Awards Presentation for the 2017 Barossa Wine Show held at Lambert Estate.  Our winemaker, Alex Peel, attended and was ecstatic to be there to collect a trophy for the 1847 Wines Lily’s Late Harvest Sweet white.  It was a fant...

Our home is the iconic Chateau Yaldara, near the southern Barossa town of Lyndoch. 

Hermann Thumm founded Chateau Yaldara in 1947 after he migrated to Australia from Europe. The chateau was named ‘Yaldara’ after the local aboriginal word meaning ‘sparkling’. The site chosen for the winery was on the banks of the North Para River at a flax mill dating back to 1867.

Today, we keep his vision alive with estate grown, hand-crafted wines, loc...

With over 160 years of winemaking heritage, the Barossa is one of the world’s most acclaimed wine regions. 

It enjoys a Mediterranean climate characterised by cool, wet winters, with temperatures between 8°C to 20°C and warm, dry summers where temperatures are generally between 30°C to 35°C.

Nestled at the foot of the Barossa Ranges, the Rowland Flat sub-region is located between the towns of Tanunda and Lyndoch and is home to the 1847 E...