Just 20 miles long, Australia’s most famous wine region is an enchanting place, with a landscape of rolling hills and neat vineyards. Its small but sophisticated towns such as Tanunda and Lyndoch display a Teutonic tidiness, which, along with excellent sausages and Lutheran churches, provides evidence of the German immigrants who joined the original British settlers. Most Barossa Valley wineries and cellars are low-key compared with the grand estates of the Napa Valley and the châteaux of Bordeaux, but they offer warm and unpretentious hospitality. The Barossa should be toured at a gentle pace, stopping for wine tastings, excellent meals and walks down old-fashioned main streets lined with bakeries, craft shops and boutiques.