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2011 Winner - Category 16 Tourism Restaurants and Catering Services
Jacob's Restaurant @ Jacob's Creek Visitor Centre
Jacob’s Restaurant at Jacob’s Creek Visitor Centre, presents a quality wine and food experience complemented with its panoramic views of Barossa vineyards, wine tasting and the tour experiences. The restaurant offers a seven-day-a –week a la carte lunch menu featuring seasonal produce, presented with wine recommendations for each dish. The menu features fresh, seasonal produce sourced from across South Australia, Australia and from the local Barossa Valley producers and is matched to regional South Australian wine. The restaurant menu aims to provide international diners with a taste of modern Australian cuisine with Asian influences.
2011 Winner - Category 17 Tourism Wineries, Distilleries & Boutique Breweries
Set on 36 hectares on the banks of Jacob's Creek in the Barossa Valley, the Jacob’s Creek Visitor Centre is the home of the famous wine brand. The Centre offers much more than wine tasting; with an interpretive history and winemaking gallery and an onsite restaurant where guests can enjoy a lunch of fresh, seasonal, regional Australian produce. Surrounding the Centre, visitors can tour the display vineyard, visit the native animal enclosure and picnic grounds and explore the walking trail along the famous Jacob’s Creek. Designed to be environmentally sustainable, the Centre welcomes more than 164,500 visitors each year and encourages them to discover more about the brand’s history and product range.
2011 Winner - Category 20 Hosted Accommodation
Seppeltsfield Vineyard Cottage
Set in a private vineyard in the historic Barossa Valley, Seppeltsfield Vineyard Cottage offers the discerning traveller premium, boutique vineyard accommodation. The meticulously restored 1860s German settler’s cottage is exclusively for one couple and heritage features, such as mud and wood beamed ceilings, combine seamlessly with premium furnishings and modern luxuries, including under-floor heating, Bose sound systems and wireless broadband internet. Owned and hosted by wine producers Peter Milhinch and Sharyn Rogers, guests can immerse themselves in an authentic Barossa food, wine, and heritage experience.
2011 Medallists
Silver
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Category 03 Major Festivals & Events - Santos Tour Down Under
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Category 14 Tourism Marketing - Adelaide Convention Bureau - Conventions Adelaide Program
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Category 22 Standard Accommodation - Narnu Farm
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Category 24 Luxury Accommodation - The Sebel Playford Adelaide
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Category 26 Qantas Award for Excellence in Sustainable Tourism - Sinclair's Gully
Bronze
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Category 04 Festivals and Events - South Australian Wooden Boat Festival
2010 Winner - Category 03 Major Festivals & Events
The first stop on the world cycling calendar, the Santos Tour Down Under attracts thousands of fans from across Australia and around the world to Adelaide each January. The week-long event brings the world’s top cyclists including Lance Armstrong and Cadel Evans to South Australia to compete in the elite ProTour race. The Tour races through South Australia’s regions attracting over 770,500 spectators and beaming images of the State’s landscapes and attractions to millions of viewers worldwide. Not just a bike race, it is a festival of cycling with great associated events that create a party atmosphere across the State.
2010 Winner - Category 20 Hosted Accommodation
Seppeltsfield Vineyard Cottage
Set in a private vineyard in the historic Barossa Valley, Seppeltsfield Vineyard Cottage offers the discerning traveller premium, boutique vineyard accommodation. The meticulously restored 1860s German settler’s cottage is exclusively for one couple and heritage features, such as mud and wood beamed ceilings, combine seamlessly with premium furnishings and modern luxuries, including under-floor heating, Bose sound systems and wireless broadband internet. Owned and hosted by wine producers Peter Milhinch and Sharyn Rogers, guests can immerse themselves in an authentic Barossa food, wine, and heritage experience.
2009 Winner - Category 03 Major Festivals & Events
The first stop on the world cycling calendar, the Tour Down Under attracts thousands of fans from across Australia and around the world to Adelaide each January. The week-long event brings the world’s top cyclists to South Australia to compete in the race, the first event outside Europe to join the prestigious UCI Pro Tour, allowing fans to get up close and personal with the heroes of the peloton. It’s more than just a bike race; it is a festival of cycling, with an eight day calendar of events that create a massive party atmosphere across the State. The 2009 Tour Down Under made history as one of Australia’s biggest sporting events ever held with more than 760,500 spectators lining the streets of Adelaide and over 40 regional towns.
2009 Winner - Category 10 Meetings and Business Tourism
As a city icon, the Adelaide Convention Centre sits on the banks of the River Torrens with dramatic views of the parklands, Adelaide Oval and the spires of St Peter’s Cathedral. The Centre was the first purpose built conference and convention centre in Australia, and for more than two decades has been hosting local, national and international events. With panache and meticulous attention to detail, the Adelaide Convention Centre has built a strong reputation for quality service and standards that have long been a benchmark for convention centres around the world. Hosting everything from cocktail parties and weddings, to prestigious business meetings and international conventions, the Centre hosted in excess of 600 events, attended by more than 300,000 people and attracting 28,000 visitors to SA in the last year.