Red wine comes more naturally to Australia than white. The importance of the right soil than Australia's best red wine vineyard. South of Adelaide near the south west coast of South Australia, the terrain is completely flat, an abrupt deposit of a most unusual fertile red earth. Below it lies a few yards of pure chalk, and then a great reservoir of water. It is recognised as one of the world's most distinguished vineyards- Coonawarra. Coonawarra benefits from its far south climate as well as its soil. Its wines have what the trade calls elegance even while they are young.

Two of the red wine vines the Australians have planted have done them proud. The Bordeaux Cabernet mainly referred as Cabernet and the Shiraz of the Rhone often called Hermitage are both so successful that neither can be called better than the other. The best wineries make varietals wines from both, most of them in several different places, and either blend them or sell them separately as their judgment dictates. Within the Hunter Valley Region of New South Wales - the quality area of New South Wales, makes big and robust red wines, hugh almost sweet, Hermitage, strong tough Cabernet.