The Best Rainy Day Activities in the Barossa

Tour the 1878 Centennial Cellar and taste a tawny as old as a century - the rain on the old stone roofs only improves the atmosphere.

Two packed floors of copper-town treasures in a grand 1866 former Baptist church. Allow two hours; you'll use three.

A working 1873 forge kept alive by volunteers, with three rooms of tools and 130 years of one family's trade. Warmest doorway in Angaston.

Watch the cheesemakers at work on the live stream, then choose camembert and goat cheeses for later. Closed Tuesdays.

Book the Italian cooking school and spend the wet afternoon rolling pasta with a glass of something Piedmontese at your elbow.

Gin flights in the old Penfolds precinct at Nuriootpa - proof the valley's talents extend well beyond the grape.

A snug 1840s schoolteacher's cottage at Light Pass, furnished to the last crock and candlestick. Rainy days suit its low ceilings perfectly.

Taste in the bluestone grandeur of one of the valley's most imposing 19th-century buildings, châteaux-style turrets and all.

Settle in for a long lunch overlooking the pond and let the weather do its worst - comfort food is the house specialty.

A hangar of lovingly kept aircraft and memorabilia in tiny Greenock - the Barossa's most unexpected museum, and perfect shelter.