2015 Vintage

The 2015 Vintage produced excellent wines, the quality is brilliant and one of the highlights in recent years.

Pirathon Limited Editon Shiraz

Pirathon Limited Editon Shiraz

TPirathon Limited Edition Shiraz is a unique release from the amazing 2015 vintage. This ultimate Barossa Valley Shiraz is exclusively packaged in a wooden 6-pack celebrating the amazing high standard …

Pirathon Shiraz

Pirathon Shiraz

Pirathon is the classic and award winning Pirathon Shiraz. Full bodied displaying bright fruit characters contribute to this plush wine. This is an extremely balanced Shiraz with fruit, oak and tannin …

GCV Celtic Farm Riesling

GCV Celtic Farm Riesling

This wine comes from three different blocks on the vineyard and our intention is to make a wine in the modern Australian Riesling style – crisp, dry and fresh. Pale green in appearance with typical …

GCV Premium Cabernet Malbec

GCV Premium Cabernet Malbec

This wine displays intense blackcurrant / mulberry fruit aromas along with some mocha and chocolate notes. Quite concentrated on the palate, but manages to retain a degree of elegance that we expect …

GCV Premium Riesling

GCV Premium Riesling

The GCV Premium Riesling comes from the oldest block of Riesling vines on the vineyard. Our aim is to make something that is more textural than the Celtic Farm, not relying totally on acidity to give …

GCV Celtic Farm Shiraz Cabernet

GCV Celtic Farm Shiraz Cabernet

Deep red in colour, the wine displays ripe satsuma plum and blackcurrant, a little chocolate and a hint of cedary French oak. The palate is quite rich but retains a degree of elegance with its …

GCV Premium Shiraz

GCV Premium Shiraz

The fruit for this comes from the two oldest blocks of Shiraz on the vineyard. Varying percentages of both blocks make up the Premium depending on the year. Incredibly deep red, almost black in …

2015 LWE Cabernet Sauvignon

2015 LWE Cabernet Sauvignon

LWE’s Cabernet likes to challenge the preconceived notions of what a Barossa Valley Cabernet can be. An immense fruit driven wine, yet delicate and subtle at the same time!"

LWE Merlot Shiraz

LWE Merlot Shiraz

James Thomson, The Wine of Love: “The wine of Love is music, And the feast of Love is song: And when Love sits down to the banquet, Love sits long”.

LWE Shiraz

LWE Shiraz

Charles Baudelaire, The Soul of Wine: One night, from bottles, sang the soul of wine: '0 misfit man, I send you for your good, Out of the glass and wax where I'm confined, A melody of light and …

Bluemark Shiraz

Bluemark Shiraz

This bold Barossa Shiraz has an inviting bouquet with aromas of ripe plum, Christmas cake, fruit compote and chocolate oak. The full-bodied palate is rich and intense with an abundance of flavour and …

Vintage Notes

Growing Season

Vintage 2015 produced excellent wines. It began with a wet Winter followed by a very dry growing season with less than half the average rainfall. Spring was warmer than average leading to an earlier budburst and early vintage. Summer brought average temperatures, ensuring the dry conditions were not stressful to the vines, and a slow even ripening ensued. Quality is brilliant, certainly one of the highlights in recent years.

Vineyard

The grapes were harvested from the low-yielding vineyards of traditional family growers in the north-western Barossa districts of Greenock, Moppa, Belvedere, Stonewell, Seppeltsfield, Koonunga and Ebenezer. Each vineyard adds its own exclusive dimension to Pirathon Shiraz and combined they produce the ultimate blend.

Winemaking

Following harvest, each individual lot of grapes was crushed into a separate open top fermenter. During fermentation, hand pump-overs gently extracted colour and flavour from the grapes. The fermented grapes were pressed with a traditional press. The wines were then filled to new and seasoned American, French, Russian and Hungarian oak hogsheads for maturation for eighteen months before each lot of wine was racked from the barrel and carefully blended. The wine was bottled without fining, ensuring the true expression of the vineyards in the bottle.

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