I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, McLaren Vale sits right in a cluster of important Australian wine regions.

If you look at the whole of Australia, McLaren Vale is located in the south and just off center to the east on South Australia's southern coast.

To the east, the Mount Lofty ranges create a topographical barrier, separating McLaren Vale from the lower

Murray zone, and to the west, Gulf St. Vincent helps to mediate the temperatures and contributes

to the region's Mediterranean climate that features little risk of harvest tragedies such as frost and rain.

Head north and you'll drive through a memorable wine route that will take you through the Savignon blanks of the Adelaide

Hills, the Rieslings of Eden Valley, the ancient Shiraz Vineyards in the Barossa Valley,

and then more Rieslings in the

and the Claire Valley. Head south and you'll reach the coast. Then it's just a boat right

away to Kangaroo Island.

McClure and Vale is right in the center of an incredibly rich wine zone

where you'll find some of the world's oldest

vineyards. Not only does the region boast some incredibly old vineyards it also

boasts the oldest bottle of Australian wine in existence, an 1867 bottle of Tintera Claret.

But even older than this bottle are the soils.

The soils here are some of the oldest in the world. You can date them back 500 to 750 million years ago.

To put this into perspective, most of New Zealand rose up from the ocean about 20 million years ago.

These old McLaren soils are also varied from place to place,

because quite some time ago a glacier deposited its scrapings from numerous other areas here.

If you had to generalize though, you'll find a lot of ancient sandstone.

...