Belair

In the Adelaide Hills foothills, this is the kind of shop where the owner still knows your name and your usual order. Boyd and his team have built a reputation on the so-called Great Wall of Beer, a floor-to-ceiling run of local and imported bottles that draws drinkers well beyond Belair, alongside a considered range of boutique wine, a deep spirits selection and a fridge of good cheese for whatever you're pouring at home. It's proudly independent and locally owned, the sort of neighbourhood cellar that trades on knowledge rather than volume: staff who'll steer you toward a small producer you haven't tried, or talk through the differences between a dozen pale ales without a hint of condescension. Weekend tastings are part of the rhythm here, Friday afternoons and Saturday sessions that turn the shop into a briefly convivial tasting room before it settles back into its role as the local's first stop for something interesting to drink. Join the wine or beer club and you're folded into that community properly. It's unfussy, generous with its time, and built on the idea that a good bottle shop is as much about the conversation at the counter as what's on the shelf.

South Australia's oldest plant nursery, propagating native flora since 1886 within Belair National Park in the Adelaide Hills. The beds run from groundcovers and grasses to shrubs and trees, over a thousand species and many of them local, with a gift shop stocking Australiana, garden ornaments, cards and books on native plants. Staff are native-plant enthusiasts happy to advise, and you shop among wooded hills where koalas share the grounds. Open weekdays 9am to 5pm, weekends 10am to 4pm.