TORBRECK OLD VINES GRENACHE MOURVEDERE SHIRAZ 75CL 14.5%

Provenance is paramount to Torbreck, who have set out to make the best Rhone style wines in the Barossa Valley. Sourcing fruit from this region's best vineyards, their wines are unique in concentration, structure and longevity. This cuvee is a perfect introduction to their house style, blending old vine Grenache, Mourvedre and Shiraz which are sourced from unique sites that make up the rich vinous heritage of the Barossa Valley. The combination of terroirs contribute to the complexity of this wine.

62% Grenache, 26% Shiraz, 12% Mourvedre. 24 months in French hogshead barrels. The vision of 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 Torbrecks 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 Mourvedre  still thrive and bear fruit of unique concentration and flavour.