The Louise, Australia

The property has just 15 suites offering absolute luxury and inspired design, with sunrise or sunset vistas over the surrounding vineyards, private terraces, soft contemporary furnishings, spacious ensuites with dual rain showers and spa tubs, individual espresso-makers and luxurious king beds. Some suites include private gated courtyards, outdoor showers, fireplaces, Bose Wave CD players and a second LCD TV in the ensuite.

Just an hour from Adelaide, the Barossa Valley is renowned as one of the world’s finest wine producing regions - home to more than 100 wineries (over 60 with cellar doors). This compact valley is easily explored, with nearly every turn and vista yielding unspoiled beauty. Pastoral roads wind through the region, which ‘has the charm and ease of accessibility of the Napa Valley thirty years ago’. Wine is undoubtedly one of the main attractions of the Barossa, which is home to some of the finest and best known Shiraz wines in the world including Charles Melton, Grant Burge, Greenock Creek, Henschke, Penfolds, Peter Lehmann, Rockford, Seppelts, Two Hands, Torbreck, Turkey Flat and Yalumba, as well as a host of emerging boutique and artisan winemakers producing the next generation of iconic wines. There are many cellar doors within a few minutes walk, bike ride or drive from the property.