Tasting Team on Tour: Mike Bennie visits the Clare Valley

Clare Valley was originally planted in the 1840s by the English journeyman John Horrocks. Following Horrocks, the Jesuit priest Father Kranewitter settled into the area, planted vines and built a winery on his property, Sevenhill. The Sevenhill winery may have been the first in Clare Valley, but with the advent of a gold mining boom, and more ambitious families settling in the area, more vineyards and wineries came about, and the wine region proper began its emergence.