NA ="Craneford, Pewsey Vale, Taunton,";
FE1[0]=" The Eden Valley is adjacent to the Barossa's eastern boundary. This elevated winegrowing area is regarded as a distinct region. The Eden Valley is a region of rugged beauty. The cool climate provides ideal conditions for the produ";
FE2[0]="ction of high quality Riesling, Chardonnay and elegant red wine. The Eden Valley is a cool climate region nestled between 400 and 600 metres in the Barossa Range, part of the Mount Lofty Range. It is actually not a valley but take";
FE3[0]="s its name from the township of Eden Valley. The region has one sub-region, High Eden in the south. The main towns are Moculta, Keyneton, Eden Valley and Springton. It is rough, rocky country that belies its ability to produce win";
FE4[0]="es of great delicacy and finesse. The star performer is Riesling with great attention also given to the production of Chardonnay and Shiraz. The history of the region parallels that of the Barossa Valley, which shares its eastern ";
FE5[0]="boundary with Eden Valley. Yalumba has substantial vineyard holdings, and a winery at Angaston, the site of the first vines planted by founder Samuel Smith in 1849. Henschke, well known for red and white table wines was another pi";
FE6[0]="oneer estate established at Keyneton in the late 1860s by Johann Christian Henschke. The return to table wines in the 1950s fostered a steady expansion in the region through the 80s and 90s. Amongst the modern day pioneers was Dav";
FE7[0]="id Wynn of Coonawarra. He first planted Chardonnay on his property Mountadam in the area that is now registered as the High Eden Sub-region. Harvest time: mid to late April. The High Eden Sub-region was pioneered by Joseph Gilbert";
FE8[0]=" who established vineyards at Pewsey Vale, the highest point in the Eden Valley. This is fairly tough country to farm because of the hilly terrain and poor sandy soils The climate also brings challenges to viticulturalists dealing";
FE9[0]=" with high winds and low growing season rainfall. The key varieties grown are Chardonnay, Riesling, Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz.";
LA1[0]=" The Eden Valley can be broadly described as the upland country above 400 metres in altitude adjacent to the Barossa Valley. It is a windswept country; exposed hills with moderately steep gradients are commonplace. Because the topo";
LA2[0]="graphy is so varied, and the climate neatly balanced, it produces a range of excellent wines. The Valley is a natural drainage basin for two rivers systems, the North Para and the Rhine. Irrigation is a must in the Valley and reli";
LA3[0]="ance is placed mainly on surface dams filled by rainfall rather than on bores, as groundwater flow is often limited. Given the varied terrain there are a number of soil types, but the most common ones range in grey to brown in col";
LA4[0]="our and loamy sand to clay loams, with subsoils deriving from weathered rock. Ironstone gravels, quartz gravels and rock fragments are present in both the surface and subsurface. There are also patches of weaker sandy soils on the";
LA5[0]=" slopes, underlain by weathered mica schists. The area's redevelopment, commencing in 1961 and running through to the early 1970s, was pioneered by Yalumba. In what now seems like a perfectly obvious move, but which at the time to";
LA6[0]="ok both courage and vision, it decided to move the sources of all its all-important riesling from the warmer floor of the Barossa Valley to the much cooler slopes of the Eden Valley, Pewsey Vale came first, its early Rieslings hav";
LA7[0]="ing immediate success, and encouraging Yalumba to follow up with Heggies (and its evocative label) in 1971. Henschke, of course, had been there since 1868, but in a different part of the Valley and at a lower altitude.  ";
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CL1[0]=" The Eden Valley can be broadly described as the upland country above 400 metres in altitude adjacent to the Barossa Valley. It is a windswept country; exposed hills with moderately steep gradients are common place. The growing sea";
CL2[0]="son temperatures are lower than those of the Barossa Valley, and the final stages of ripening (and harvesting) take place in much cooler conditions. Location: 34°35'S, 139°40'E; Annual rainfall: 750 mm; Mean January temp: 19.4°C; ";
CL3[0]="Sunshine hours per day: 8.8.";
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HI1[0]=" Captain Joseph Gilbert planted the first vines at his Pewsey Vale vineyard in 1847, the same year as Johann Gramp planted the first vines in the Barossa Valley at Rowland Flat. By 1862 he had established a substantial vineyard and";
HI2[0]=" cellar described in his series of articles published in the 'Adelaide Advertiser' and ultimately collected in a book entitled 'The Vineyards and Orchards of Australia' in 1862. Sixteen acres of vines were in full bearing, and the";
HI3[0]=" two-storey winery was in the course of being doubled in size. He was producing Riesling, Shiraz and Carbonet (an odd spelling of Cabernet Sauvignon), with stocks going back to 1852, his first vintage, and including a then-famous ";
HI4[0]="1854 Riesling. So the high country of the Eden Valley has an equally long history of viticulture, and in fact covers an area as large as the Barossa Valley proper, albeit less intensely developed. In the 1930's, because of the sev";
HI5[0]="ere economic hardship of the Great Depression, the vineyard first had fallen into disuse and then was grubbed by its new owners. Angas Parsons and Hill Smith families began the renaissance of the higher western hills of Eden Valle";
HI6[0]="y in the 1960s. Geoffrey Angas Parsons had bought 9,000 acres of land, which included the original Pewsey Vale, in the mid-1950s and in 1961 he approached Wyndham Hill Smith, of Yalumba, with a plan to replant the vineyards. The H";
HI7[0]="ill Smiths eventually bought out their partner and greatly expanded the vineyard. The value of the project was shown in 1969, when Pewsey Vale riesling won seven gold medals at wine shows around Australia. With the Hill Smiths hav";
HI8[0]="ing successfully shown the way, there was a boom in new plantings on the traditional pastoral land in the area in the early 1970s and the name High Eden was born. It was the creation of the late David Wynn, who wanted a distinctiv";
HI9[0]="e and descriptive name for his new vineyards along what was then called the Springton ridge. David Wynn coined 'High Eden' to indicate the elevation of the new plantings in the cool climate of the Eden Valley.";