Collection: Torbreck Vintners 2024 Pre-Release Offer
We are pleased to be able to offer the latest high-scoring wines from Torbreack Vintners in the Barossa Valley. We have limited supplies of these new releases from the 2021 and 2022 vintages. These wines are all offered 'in bond' and are expected to arrive in the UK in Spring 2025.
Torbreck makes some of the finest wines in Australia. Taking inspiration from the Rhone Valley yet quintessentially Barossa. The Shiraz and GSM blends are truly exceptional. For details on the individual wines take a look at what the critics have said about these releases by clicking on the link below.
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A History of Torbreck
Torbreck was established in 1994 from the resurrection of old vines vineyards that had fallen into disrepair on selected sites in The Barossa Valley. This share farming agreement enabled a small supply grapes from an ancient vineyard and in 1995 the first RunRig was vinified, a shiraz-viognier blend, released in late 1997 alongside a 1996 blend of grenache, Mataro (aka Mourvèdre) and shiraz known as The Steading
The two wines quickly attracted much attention as critics and wine lovers began to laud them. Twenty-five years later Torbreck makes 19 different cuvées to continued acclaim, sourcing fruit from a number of old, some might say ancient, dry-farmed vines in vineyards that are among the best in the Barossa. Among the sites acquired or leased is the historic and beautiful Hillside estate in Lyndoch with its gnarled vines near 165 years old and original settlers farm house.
The ethos here is to show just what the Barossa can do with the grape varieties that initially made its name – Shiraz, Grenache, Mataro together with some Marsanne and Roussanne. It will come as no surprise to anyone who has tasted them that Torbreck’s wines have been something of a tribute to the great wines of the Rhône Valley while remaining essentially Barossa.
In 2017 winemaker Ian Hongell took on the role as Chief Winemaker overseeing all production and viticulture. Working closely with his team he is the custodian of numerous plots of old vines amongst Torbreck’s five estates running up the western ridge of the Valley. Furthermore, Torbreck works in collaboration with more than thirty Barossa families who own a patchwork of vineyards that supply a wide cross-section of old vines that make up many of the cuvees.