Kanta

Kanta Riesling is the brainchild resulting from a three-year plan devised by Michael Andrewartha of East End Cellars, and Egon Müller, an award winning, fifth-generation winemaker. The pair flew all over the country to source the perfect fruit and winemaking facility, finally finding it in Andrewartha’s own backyard: Balhannah, in the Adelaide Hills.

The result is unlike any other product on the domestic market. Kanta Riesling displays extra complexity and added dimensions. The German winemaking philosophies applied to premium South Australian fruit have produced a truly unique wine.

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The Lane Vineyard

The Lane Vineyard is one of Australia 's true domains where the Edwards family grow, make and sell their sought-after wines of distinction.

The wines have a true sense of place, intense fine fruit flavours with spice and elegant structure, a product of the terroir of The Lane. Ravenswood Lane, Hahndorf, SA

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Bird in Hand Winery

Bird in Hand winery, cellar door and art gallery is located just 35 minutes from Adelaide’s city centre in the picturesque Adelaide Hills. The vineyards and olive grove are positioned above the old Bird in Hand goldmine and the tasting room is open 7 days.

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Tin Shed Wines

The Tin Shed Wines adventure began in 1997, when Peter Clarke’s passion for food and wine overflowed one night in the company of friend and viticulturist Andrew Wardlaw. The following year, the pair combined their talents in a small tin shed to create their first wine. In 2006, Peter and wife Anne, took sole ownership of Tin Shed Wines. The Tin Shed dream has not faltered over the past 10 years. The small team is still intent on mollycoddling its wines, to produce real vineyard flavours that complement food without overpowering it.

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Langmeil Winery

Langmeil’s award-winning premium range is internationally recognised and has contributed towards the winery being regarded as one of the top premium wine producers in Australia. Our young team is dedicated to the success of the winery, driven only by quality in every aspect. We are willing to listen, learn, communicate, educate and be open-minded. We trust you will enjoy Langmeil Winery's range of premium wines now, and continue to enjoy them for many years to come.

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Peter Lehmann Wines

Peter Lehmann Wines is one of Australia’s most respected and innovative winemakers, creating wines that delight wine lovers around the globe. Winemaking operations are carried out at a single site located near Tanunda, in the heart of the internationally famous Barossa Valley, South Australia.

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Groom Wines

Marschall Groom Cellars is a very small family winery situated in the famous Barossa Valley region of South Australia. The winery produces three varietals: Sauvignon Blanc, Shiraz & Zinfandel. Marschall Groom Cellars is the culmination of a dream, backed up by many years of talk and family discussion. The proprietors are David & Jeanette Marschall and their six children, and Daryl & Lisa Groom and their four children. The desire for the Groom label is to let the vineyards and their fruit do the talking in producing the style and quality of the wines. Marshall Groom have set the foundation in choosing the most ideal viticultural region needed to produce the highest quality for each of their chosen varieties.

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Spinifex Wines

Peter Schell and Magali Gely have had a home in the Barossa Valley for over ten years and hold a strong commitment to, and passion for the Barossa. They started the Spinifex label in 2001 and have never looked back. Time spent in the south of France has fuelled their interest in making unique, hand crafted wines with personality, which are generous and honest expressions of the varieties and their provenance. Grapes are sourced from a group of dedicated growers in both the Barossa and Eden Valleys, taking advantage of the great diversity of the soils and meso-climates of the Barossa to create wines with balance, character, depth of flavour and Barossan generosity.

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Magpie Estate

Magpie Estate is a joint venture that began in 1993, with English wine merchant Noel Young and Barossa winemaker Rolf Binder. Most of the wines are sold into the English market with smaller parcels kept for Australia. The grapes only partly come from Rolf’s Veritas vineyards and this allows them to buy from further afield. Noel also likes more new oak than you will find in Veritas wines. Noel visits Australia twice per year and together they taste the various parcels of wine and agree on final blends for bottling.

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Tomfoolery Wines

The Tomfoolery adventure began in the sweltering heat of 2004 harvest between best mates Ben Chipman, Toby Yap and a tonne of old vine Shiraz. With some generous assistance from friends, the fruit was picked, destemmed and basket pressed to produce the first 'Artful Dodger' Shiraz. Over the following vintages the boys expanded their production to include Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Eden Valley Riesling while also acquiring their third business partner and close mate, Christian Canute. The Tomfoolery winemaking philosophy is simple small parcels of fruit, hand-crafted through a simple and relatively non-interventional approach with the aim to truly reflect the individual characteristics of the vineyard and variety. Most importantly, Tomfoolery is about having good times with good friends.

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Primo Estate

The story begins in 1953 when Primo Grilli arrived in Australia from the Le Marche wine region of Italy with a vision of growing Italian grape varieties in this sun-soaked new land. Primo planted the family's first vineyard in 1973, just north of Adelaide around a small township called Virginia. Primo's eldest son, Joseph, studied Oenology at South Australia's legendary Roseworthy College and graduated Dux of his class in 1978. From his very first vintage as winemaker in 1979, aged just 20, Joseph Grilli sought to create revolutionary wines. "I remain swept up by the romance of it all. More than anything else Primo Estate celebrates la dolce vita, Australian style!"

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Wirra Wirra Vineyards

"Wirra Wirra" is an Aboriginal name meaning "amongst the gum trees".

Wirra Wirra Vineyards was originally established in 1894 by known South Australian eccentric and cricketer Robert Strangways Wigley. The winery prospered in its early days, but ran into disrepair and was eventually abandoned. In 1969, under the watchful eye of the late Greg Trott and his first-cousin Roger, the winery was rebuilt from the remnants of two walls and some slate fermenting tanks. A visitor to Wirra Wirra will get a touch of Greg Trott’s philosophy, which is built around the pleasant things of life: good surroundings, great food, stimulating conversation, marvellous music, and of course, a bottle of wine!

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Koltz Wines

Koltz began as a small wine label in 1995, when winemaker Mark Day and Anna Koltunow made their first wine using grapes from the Bottin Vineyard in McLaren Vale. Since that time, Koltz has evolved and now specialises in shiraz and shiraz blends from the McLaren Vale region, renowned for its shiraz wines worldwide. Koltz is a very small producer, and all their wines are hand-crafted using traditional methods in that they are fermented in open vats and when dry, basket pressed and put to oak. We try to make wines that are individual and reflect our philosophy: that wines should be complex, but a pleasure to drink at any stage of their evolution.

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d’Arenberg Vineyards

Since 1912, d’Arenberg’s vineyards in McLaren Vale have been tendered by four generations of the Osborn family, with Chief Winemaker & Viticulturist Chester d’Arenberg Osborn creating wines that capture the old world winemaking style of basket pressing, small batch fermenting, foot treading and the true flavour of the McLaren Vale region.

d’Arenberg’s vibrant wine style is obvious across a full range of whites and reds, fortifieds and dessert wines. Each wine has a unique personality, and the quirky names and distinctive red stripe are recognisable to imbibers around the world, enhancing d’Arenberg’s standing as one of the leading wine producers of Australia.

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Bleasdale Vineyards

While many South Australian family wineries died with their entrepreneurial founders, Bleasdale still survives proudly today. Since Frank Potts was captivated by the potential of the fertile Langhorne Creek region with its ample sunshine to create ripe, full-bodied wine styles, the Potts family has been following a 150-year-old tradition of innovative grapegrowing and winemaking. Other than Yalumba, it is the longest running family owned winery in Australia, a proud heritage of commitment and dedication to an industry and a region.

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O’Leary Walker Wines

O'Leary Walker Wines was established in 2001 by David O'Leary and Nick Walker. These two longtime friends had established quite illustrious winemaking careers over 20 years with big companies, but both were looking to take control of their own destiny and craft small batches of wine from great vineyard sites. They took a great leap of faith, and are now doing exactly what they set out to.

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Some Young Punks

The ethos is simple, self-centred, and just a little arrogant: we make charismatic wines that are true to what we think ‘wine’ should be about. If someone doesn’t like the way we do it, then they had better put the bottle down, because there’s already not enough to go around.

Each wine, each vintage, and each label is a moment that will never come again - a winemaker should only ever promise to be consistently good, never just consistent. Each time we make a wine, it may be the last wine we make - and if it isn’t worthy of being the last, then it will never wear the Some Young Punks name.

We believe that awesome wine is a powerful aid to creativity. There is always the danger that while drinking a bottle of Punks you may also be pushed to acts of random winemaking. It definitely keeps us ticking over.

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Rymill Coonawarra

In the heart of the world-renowned Coonawarra district, two majestic bronze stallions welcome visitors to the Rymill family's distinctive winery. Sandrine Gimon, a graduate of the University of Reims, makes a range of modern well-balanced wines with a classic Old World accent. Enhanced by subtle oak handling, they remain true expressions of the vineyard, are rich and elegant in style, and are most delightful in the company of food.

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Heggies Vineyard

The magnificent sweep of country that is now the Heggies Vineyard had been grazing land for most of its settled history, and was owned by local grazier and bushman, Colin Heggie. It was then purchased by Wyndham Hill Smith, then Manager of the Yalumba Wine Company.

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Hill Smith Estate

The Hill Smith Family are fifth-generation vignerons, tracing their winemaking roots back to the very beginnings of South Australia’s wine industry. Nestled in the idyllic Eden Valley, the pride of the family is the 15-hectare, Hill Smith Vineyard, established in 1979.

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Eden Hall Wines

David and Mardi Hall purchased the historic Avon Brae property in 1996, a vineyard and homestead dating back to the 1840s with a significant connection to the history of Eden Valley. The Eden Valley’s rugged beauty and cool climate provide ideal conditions for the production of high quality Riesling and elegant red wine.

These are limited production, hand-crafted wines of impeccable quality and regard, receiving critical acclaim from such notable figures as James Halliday and Robert Parker Jnr.

“The Riesling, Shiraz Viognier and Cabernet Sauvignon are all excellent, the red wines outstanding.” (James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2010 Edition)

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