Electoral district of Schubert

Schubert is an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia. It is named after Max Schubert, the winemaker of Penfolds Grange Hermitage. The Barossa Valley area was first represented by the seat of Barossa. The seat of Custance was abolished and recreated as Schubert in the 1994 redistribution and first contested at the 1997 election. The seat covers nearly all of the Barossa Valley area in the west to rural areas in the east as far as the Murray River. Schubert also includes the northern parts of the Adelaide Hills. The electorate covers an area of 3,495.3 km². Main population centres include Nuriootpa, Angaston, Tanunda and Mannum.