Built by renowned architect Marc Whipple in 2014, the six-bedroom, eight bath smart home includes a movie theater, putting green, wine cellar, a Zen garden, gym, private gated driveway, and a guess house.
From A$195 a night midweek (£105), provisions supplied for breakfast If you prefer white wine (and particularly a crisp riesling), it's worth driving the extra 30 minutes beyond the Barossa to Clare Valley; it's higher, cooler and greener, with cellar doors tucked away down quiet eucalypt-lined roads.
That 105-foot-long tyrannosaurus stretch has such amenities as a helicopter pad, putting green, Jacuzzi and wine cellar.
Outside Scottsdale, Ariz., Jack Blevins is living in his second luxury house this year, a $2.9 million, 7,000-square-footer with a wine cellar and putting green, in a gated community on a mountainside overlooking Phoenix.
Somehow we could still feel its enormity, mostly from the things we came upon: that trunk in the cellar filled with green Army trousers and tunics now stiff with age; that picture of the day it all ended, and there was our mom, young, along with half the town, riding on top of their cars and laughing and throwing their hats in the air.
And he is particularly good at conjuring up the physical ambience of the different theatres, with their dusty green rooms and gloomy, leaking cellars.
We drive north, stopping mid-morning at Black Estate, a striking black box of a cellar door overlooking the green hills of the Waipara wine region.
"When I go to my cellar and get my own green beans and potatoes, I know I won't go hungry," he said.
Amenities, other than the spa, will include a fitness center, a pool, a shopping promenade, four restaurants, a specialty food market, a wine cellar, a business center, putting greens and a driving range.
In the cavernous chamber where the water used to be, Mr. Ohlhausen has created three levels of new space, with the theater at the top, an entrance in the middle and a cellar below with offices and a green room.
