Torbreck Cuvee Juveniles Barossa Valley 2023 《ZAU044A》

The vision is to Torbreck Vintners, which was founded in 1994, was born out of a desire to create some of the greatest wines in the world by using the incredibly old, dry-grown, Shiraz vineyards that surround the Barossa Valley. Securing these vineyards initially involved share-farming the property, a practice which involves paying the owner a percentage of the market rate for their grapes in return for managing the vineyard. It was this share-farming principle, together with their selection of some of the most highly prized vineyards, that formed the founding pillars of Torbreck’s incredible international success. The vineyards, in particular, enabled them to source some of the very best fruit in the Barossa Valley, which is home to some of the oldest and most precious vines in the world. Provenance is everything to Torbreck. They believe that the Barossa Valley, with its gentle Mediterranean climate and 175 year history of Silesian and English winemaking, is most exciting place in the world to make wine. There is a European sense of tradition here that means that vines planted in the 1840s – many of them Rhone varieties such as Shiraz, Grenache and Mourvédre– still thrive and bear fruit of unique concentration and flavour.

Today, Torbreck pays tribute to these vineyards with minimal intervention, creating wines of richness, structure and length that age gracefully.

Whilst the company’s reputation is largely based around its red wines, they have also used the Descendant vineyard to plant Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne which are blended into white wine.

Torbreck’s vision of creating a 100%estate-produced and bottled wine was realised in 2008 when a new winery and administration facility was opened on land acquired from a neighbouring property. This facility enables the grapes to be hand picked, and vinified using the best and most modern equipment available. The wine is then matured in temperature controlled cellars and bottled ‘on the estate’ using a state-of-the art bottling line, before being shipped to many of the world’s best restaurants and fine wine retailers.

Today they also have a beautiful cellar door in which to welcome visitors to taste their excellent Barossa wines.

Since its founding in 1994, Torbreck has been committed to creating exceptional Rhone style red and white wines that reveal the true character of the Barossa’s very best vineyards.

Torbreck is the name of a forest near Inverness, Scotland and there is more than a passing nod to the Celts in their wine naming conventions.

The Laird of the Estate in Scotland is the Lord of the Manor and master of all he surveys, and is an apt name for Torbreck’s flagship wine – a single vineyard Shiraz comes from an old vineyard in Marananga and spends three years in Dominque Laurent barriques.

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