Tanunda is home to many wineries in the Light Regional Council including:
The Southern Australian of 18 August 1843, page 2c says:
Part of the [German] emigrants... have leased from Mr Angas seven hundred and twenty acres in Angas Park, through which runs a stream called by them the Kedron... [its] native name is Tanunda and it has an abundance of good water the year round. Along its banks the Germans have built their village of Bethany.
The Register of 4 March 1850 says:
The name of Tanunda is not, as many supposed, German, but a native appellation and has reference to the waters that skirt the place the year around.