The best of Barossa Cabernet, the pick of harvest from some great old vineyards at Stonewell, Gomersal and Light Pass. Components are all small batch fermented for a week before being pressed off for completion of malolactic and six months maturation in seasoned French oak hogsheads. Dark brick red, redolent of tobacco and herbal tea, blackcurrants and bay, a juicy style of fresh blueberry fruits, blackcurrant and savoury meats complexity. Fashioned to the tradition of Barossa Cabernet affability, supported by a line of solid structure, refined length of tannin and real generosity of flavour.

A compilation of prestigious parcels Shiraz from St John’s Road Resurrection Vineyard and some very old sites at Stonewell, Ebenezer and Valley Eden. Fruit is cold soaked for a week and open fermented before transfer to an extravagantly high proportion of new French oak hogsheads and barriques for twenty months maturation. Lifted and perfumed of dark cherries, coffee oak, violets and spice. An immense, full flavoured and elegant cool climate palate offering liquorice and mulberries, chocolate milk assortments, violets and spice, a beautiful wine to match truffled meats.

St John's Road has been brought back to life by the places and personalities, the heritage and folklore of Barossa Valley. Every winter weekend, the red blooded players at St Johns Road take to the footy field for a true blue test of skill, strength and character. Blood & Courage is the quintessential Barossa Shiraz, it's all come about because of great comeraderie and kinship between the crew. A play of ripe, rich fruit, balanced oak integration and skillful winemaking, Blood & Courage captures the very essence of ardent and impassioned Barossa team work.

Block 8 is at the northeast corner of Resurrection Vineyard on higher elevations of shallow rocky soils, planted to the Maywald clone Shiraz, a direct descendent of the oldest rootstock in Barossa. Hand picked grapes are treated to a cool temperature, open ferment for ten days, followed by completion of malolactic and ten months age in a selection of well seasoned French oak hogsheads and barriques. Block 8 yields a supple wine of comely eloquence, intricacy and elegance, a fresher, more delicate style of florals and fragrant herb, milk chocolate oak, ripe sugar plums and sweet vanilla pod spice.

Excellent Langtons Classification. Named for the contribution of Johann Gramp's grandson to the Orlando Wine Company, St Hugo is the very best varietal Cabernet Sauvignon of vintage. Hugo is vintaged entirely from fruit grown to the famed cigar shape of Coonawarra Terra rossa, one of the world's great Cabernet appellations. The team regularly visit the vineyards monitoring development of grapes. Selection is the key to delivering the finest possible St Hugo, only the standout parcels of Coonawarra Cabernet are earmarked for inclusion.

Distinguished Langtons Classification. An outstanding vintage release of the finest Cabernet Sauvignon, as crafted by one of Australia's grand old wineries, collated from superior vineyards in Coonawarra, winner this year of a breathtaking three Trophies and five Gold Medals. Johann Gramp planted his first vines on the banks of Jacob's Creek in 1847, Hugo was his grandson, the patriarch of Orlando Wines.

St Hallett selects individual parcels each year for inclusion into the Reward, fruit is sourced from a tally of sites planted to red brown loam over shale and red clay soils in the south and central Barossa. Harvests from the cooler, slower ripening sites to the south of the Valley, yield parcels of the most intensely flavoured grapes. As vintage approaches, St Hallett's winemakers and viticulturalists spend time in the vineyards monitoring sugar/ acid profiles and flavour development, co-ordinating the harvest to a schedule based on complete ripeness.

A national flagship wine, articulating the concordance between the Barossa and Eden Valleys, derived from low yielding vines up to a hundred years of age. The meticulous nurture and respect for these Old Vines demands that parcels are culled throughout the winemaking, from pruning in the vineyard until the final stage of sampling the ageing stocks, to determine the best barrels. Old sites in the warm nether parts of the Barossa establish the rich foundation, whilst higher, cooler aspects of the Eden Valley contribute lifted aromatics and seamless tannins.

The superior quality of Eden Valley Shiraz has earned the highest repute throughout the world of wine. St Hallett are custodians of the finest blocks old vine Shiraz to be found anywhere on the brisk and challenging aspects of Valley Eden. Each year, the St Hallett team reserve the pick of harvest from a tally of old and distinguished sites, setting aside those parcels which can best define the lithe spice and pretty red fruit characters, seamlessness of palate and outstanding tannin structure which articulate the excellence of Eden Valley Shiraz.

An inspiring varietal mix of Shiraz and Grenache with Touriga Nacional, the traditional vintage port grape. A suite of yeast strains, each suited to a different parcel of fruit, serves to highlight the fresh berry, floral, spicy, earthy aromas contributed by Touriga and Grenache, while the richness and pepper spice of Shiraz builds palate weight and structure. Completely unoaked, Gamekeeper embraces the spectrum of ripe and savoury Barossa fruit, delivering a wine which is so much greater than the sum of parts.

Valley Eden makes world class Riesling, the lofty, undulating terrroirs and cool crisp climes, represent growing conditions which are uncannily similar to Riesling's native home on the precipitous slopes along Valley Rhine. The community of growers and winemakers behind St Hallett, are well positioned to secure the finest Eden Valley sites and source the most splendid harvests. Drinking brilliantly upon release, while offering exquisite complexity, the crisp and aromatic white wine of choice to accompany good sashimi and the freshest seafood.

St Hallett are an auspicious commune of ancient Barossa grower families and leading, accomplished winemakers. Established by the Lindner family during the closing days of the second world war, industrious pastoralists who would fill a horse drawn cart with daily cuts of meat for the local markets. Sourced from a coterie of superior Barossa vineyards, the Butcher's opaque purple hues hint at the generosity within, a solid and tightly structured wine, much adored for its distinctive mint and blueberry aromaticness.

Blackwell tells a story, evolution in the pursuit of excellence has been a consistent thread running through the St Hallett narrative, now recognised around the world as essential Barossa Shiraz. St Hallett has become one of Australia's most formidable labels, achieved purely through the warmth and honesty of its wines. Each year, the St Hallett team traverse the ancient viticultural precincts of Barossa Valley, in search of the requisite rich and robust, concentrated dark berry flavours, impenetrable colour and velvet tannins which are the trademark of Blackwell.

Each year, St Hallett walk the tightrope of flavour expression as they endeavour to capture all the rich and robust, concentrated dark berry flavours without falling into the abyss of overipe jammy and stewy characters. The keys to this balance are site selection and time of picking. Shiraz is sourced exclusively from the north and western slopes of Barossa. Parcels from the distinguished districts of Seppeltsfield and Marananga, Greenock and Ebenezer are picked off particularly low yielding vineyards which grow grapes endowed with intense flavours.

Blackwell is sourced exclusively from sloped vineyards around the north and west of Barossa Valley, precincts which yield small harvests of exceptionally concentrated Shiraz grapes. The focus is on preserving freshness and purity of these extraordinarily intense, dark fruit expressions, while retaining perfect tannin balance in the finished wine. The northern hamlets of Kalimna and Ebenezer contribute juicy dark fruit and rich mocha flavours, while parcels from western districts such as Seppeltsfield give Blackwell it's muscular, brooding structure.

Many of Barossa's most splendid vineyards are planted to heavy black alluvial soils, terroirs of cracking black Biscay clays, highly prized by canny viticulturalists as the source of the most exquisite fruit, redolent of berry compote perfumes, brimming with summer pudding flavours and sheathed in luscious velvety tannins. Shiraz grown to these superb sites yields a wine that's so delectable, so intense, that all the St Hallet team needs do, is treat components to a week of warm temperature ferments and a term of age in quality oak.

What Spinifex choose to do best is discover isolate parcels of old vine, sometimes overlooked or underloved, at the Cotes du Rhône end of the varietal spectrum. This is no flight of fancy, as the background of the husband and wife team includes many growing seasons in France. Papillon is bottled towards the end of vintage year. Crafted from very old material Grenache, Cinsualt and Mataro, Spinifex hand select the vines and pick grapes, vinifying the parcels with an aim of creating a wine that's all about freshness, fruit and spice, a wine that's bright and alive.

Peter Schell was winemaker at Turkey Flat from 2001 to 2005, where he familiarized himself with some of the Barossa's more obscure and precious sites. Gaining much inspiration from a succession of vintages in Provence, Peter Schell has assembled Mataro and Shiraz from a tally of old vineyards up to a hundred years of age, planted to propitious pockets of quartz shot clay and silty sand soils on the upper altitudes of Barossa Valley. Deep, complex and masculine, laced with blackberry fruits, brazil nuts, coffee and boudin noir.

A complex Rhone-style expressing the profound characteristics delivered from great old vine vineyards. Low yielding and hand tended, they deliver a quality of fruit that's worthy of the old world's most prestigious growths. A rich and effusive cépage of Mataro and Grenache, Shiraz, Carignan and Cinsault are matured in selection of large format 500 to to 3000 litres French oak barrels to develop a complex vinous flavour base while preserving fruit freshness, enhance the exciting varietal complexity and preserve the vital tannin edge.

Spinifex appropriate much of their grapes from small family growers, often dealing with passionate farmers who are excited to find a winemaker who is interested in their vineyard and their fruit. A partisan assemblage of Rhonesque varietals, Mataro and Cinsault, Grenache and Shiraz, is formulated into a moreish pink wine by a dedicated couple with a strong French connection, who continue to work vintages in Provence and Languedoc, Bordeaux and La Bourgogne.

Soul Growers are the work of four good mates, together they represent a century of combined industry experience, employing the knowledge and skill, generously shared by some of the nation's most illustrious winemaking legends. Taking a slight sojourn from their treasured gardens in the Barossa, they accidentally stumbled across a little block of Pinot Noir, secreted away from the road side and hidden within a gully of the Adelaide Hills. A chance meeting with the grower and a handful of barrels were crafted, open fermented, basket pressed and traditionally aged in very old French casks.

Soul Growers make wines which are true to the Barossa, heart and soul, the very soils which were tilled by pioneering ancestors, the distinguished old vines which have sired plantings throughout the entire nation and far abroad. The exquisite vintages of Soul Growers are defined by their eloquence of varietal character and articulation of sublime regional charm. It is the timeless accord of Barossa grown Cabernet and Shiraz which best articulates the enduring eminence of great Australian wine. An enthralling alchemy of succulent dark fruits, tarry savouriness and toothsome, chocolatey tannins.

A mere thousand cases of Provident Shiraz are passionately small batch vinified each year, crafted to express the integrity of the land, endowments of vintage and virtues of mateship, the very soul of Barossa Valley. Grapes are open fermented in small batches, keeping every parcel separate. Gentle basket pressings extract the juices, a traditional style of vinification preserves the expression of old fashioned Barossa viticulture, the wines are unfiltered and unfined. Provident is an assemblage of Shiraz from a dozen vineyards, matured two years in a selection of well seasoned oak hogsheads.