Room One
Garden View
Looking out across the clipped box hedges and the urns to the lawn.
Bed and Breakfast, Tanunda, Barossa Valley
4.8 from 122 Google reviews0490 025 670
Tanunda, Barossa Valley
Four rooms, a 1920s house,
and the vines right there.
Barossa House sits on the Barossa Valley Way at Tanunda, with a formal garden at the front and working vineyard on the other side of the road. Four guest rooms, a cooked breakfast in the morning, and a host who has spent her working life in hospitality in this valley.
4.8 from 122 reviews on Google
1920
The house
Four
Guest rooms
4.8
Google rating
122
Guest reviews
The house
A villa from 1920, with its name over the door
Red brick and render under a red roof, a gabled porch with an arch, and BAROSSA HOUSE painted across it. The garden in front is properly kept: clipped box hedges, stone urns, a brick path with the initials set into it, and a weeping willow at the edge of the lawn.
By its own account it was the first bed and breakfast in the Barossa Valley, and it reckons on forty years of taking guests. Four rooms, which is small enough that the person who owns it is the person who greets you.
That is Sophia. She has led professional roles in hospitality for many years, and it shows in the details more than in anything she says about it. Guests describe arriving and being looked after, which is the whole job.
“She made us feel more like guests in her home than customers.”
2992 Barossa Valley Way. The vines start on the other side of the road.
The rooms
Four rooms, each named for what you see from it
They are furnished as rooms in a house of this age should be, rather than as hotel rooms, and each has its own air conditioning. Tell us who is coming and we will tell you which one suits you.
Room Two
Photinia View
Guests call this one warm and cosy. It is the room people tend to settle into.
Room Three
Eucalyptus View
Named, like the others, for what you see when you open the curtains.
Room Four
Jacaranda View
Upstairs, and the quietest and most spacious of the four.
Breakfast
Cooked in the morning, brought to the table
Eggs, bacon, grilled tomato, avocado, good coffee and a pot of tea, eaten looking out at the garden. Everyone sits at the one table, which sounds like it might be awkward and turns out to be the part people write about afterwards.
Before that, when you arrive, there is a glass of wine and something to eat with it. It is not a package inclusion so much as how the house is run.
“The fried eggs were honestly some of the best we’ve had. Simple but perfectly done, which says a lot.”
Ruby Yao, Google review
The stay
What comes with the room
A cooked breakfast
Made in the morning and brought to the table, looking out over the garden. Not a sideboard of cereal boxes.
A glass on arrival
Complimentary wine and a few snacks when you get in, which guests keep mentioning as the nicest sort of surprise.
Somebody who knows the valley
Sophia has spent her working life in hospitality here. Guests leave knowing more about Barossa wine than when they came.
Wine tours, arranged properly
Private tours put together around what you actually like drinking, rather than a fixed list of cellar doors.
Parking at the door
Free, on site, off the Barossa Valley Way. A car is essential out here and there is room for it.
Oscar
The house cat. Guests write about him by name in their reviews, which is more than most of us manage.
“Sitting outside in the evening with a glass of wine, overlooking the vineyards as the sun sets, was one of those moments you don’t forget.”
Ruby Yao, April 2026
Guests
What people write afterwards
4.8 from 122 reviews on Google
“We had a memorable stay here at Barossa House while we toured the region. Sophia is a wonderful and warm host. She has a delightful sense of style and grace that is reflected from the moment you arrive. Oscar the cat is also so sweet and we enjoyed many cuddles with him!”
Dennis Rettke
/June 2026
“We're a fairly shy and private couple and were a bit spooked by staying close to other guests and sharing a table at breakfast. Sophia was such a friendly and welcoming host and made us feel comfortable and happy, and we ended up having a great time chatting. The location was close to all the wineries and food we wanted to visit, and the room was cozy.”
Dav Cowper
/May 2026
“We had the pleasure of a one night stay at Barossa House. Sophia is a wonderful host, hospitable and generous. We enjoyed her knowledge of Barossa wines and feel better informed to choose wines in future. The upstairs Jacaranda room was lovely, both quiet and spacious. Thank you Sophia for a wonderful stay. And for the cuddles from Oscar who also made us feel very at home.”
Charlene
/May 2026
“We stayed for our anniversary and loved it. Sophia the host went above and beyond. It's a lovely old house and the breakfast was amazing! They bought a fantastic family feel to our stay. We are already planning our next trip here with friends as we loved it so much. They arranged a reasonably priced and brilliant private wine tour that was suited to our preferences in wine. 10/10.”
Dan Felts
/October 2025
The garden
Roses over the pergola, vines past the hedge
The garden is the reason people sit outside until the light goes. Climbing roses on the pergola, box hedges in squares, and the vineyard rows running away behind them.
Find us
On the Barossa Valley Way, in the middle of everything
Tanunda sits in the heart of the cellar door region, and the house is on the main road through it. You will want a car out here, and there is free parking on site.
2992 Barossa Valley Way
Tanunda SA 5352
- Barossa Valley Chocolate Companyabout 1 km
- Barossa Arts and Convention Centreabout 2 km
- Elderton Wines, Nuriootpaabout 3 km
- Chateau Tanunda cellar doorabout 3 km
- Maggie Beer's Farm Shopa short walk
- Barossa Regional Gallerya few minutes' drive
Check in from 2pm, check out by 10am, as a guide. Arriving late or needing a different time is usually fine, just say so when you book.
Enquire
Tell us your dates and we will tell you what is free
Four rooms fill up quickly through vintage and over long weekends, so it is worth asking early. Call and you will get Sophia, not a call centre.
Send an enquiry
The quickest way is to email your dates and how many of you there are. It opens in your own mail app, already addressed.
EMAIL BAROSSA HOUSECALL 0490 025 670We answer every enquiry ourselves, usually the same day.