Wines By Dutschke

Dutschke Gods Hill Road Shiraz 2009

Barossa

Available by the case dozen only

The philosophy at Dutscke has always been to squash grapes from the St Jakobi Block and make exclusive single vineyard wines, until recently. Since shifting their operations to Gods Hill Road, there have been a few changes. GHR Shiraz is a small batch assemblage of parcels from precious vineyards within a tiny but exquisite Shiraz growing appellation, displaying a profound sense of place.

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God's Hill Road is less than two kilometres in length and runs along a small hill range to the west of Lyndoch Valley. Along this short stretch of dirt road are some wonderful Shiraz vineyards which are tended by some of the Barossa's most dedicated growers, planted to a great collection of soil types. There's Peter Gilsmore's Max's Vineyard, sited to sandy terrain with scatterings of ironstone. Robert and Nanette Staker's vineyard is red earth over clay, atop Benno Semmler's old property. Much of Wally Krieg's Block was planted in the 1920s on red dirt over clay and biscay soils. God's Hill Road Shiraz is matured twenty months in a selection of new and seasoned French and American oak hogsheads. Alcohol 14.7%


Dark garnet colour. Big, soft and round nose with bouquets of berry and plum. French and American oak characters compliment the sweet middle palate concentration. Ripe fruit characters and soft drying tannins highlight the finish.

Dutschke Oscar Semmler Shiraz 2010

Barossa

Available in cartons of six

The most structured and mouthfilling parcels of Shiraz grown to the superlative St Jakobi Block are set aside each year for Oscar Semmler. Oscar is the reserve label for Dutschke, a flagship Barossa Shiraz representing the best of vintage from within the elite appellation of Lyndoch.

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From vines planted by Ken Semmler, across the road from where Oscar Semmler and his brothers grew up at Lyndoch in the Barossa, alongside the St. Jakobi Lutheran church and school. Oscar is the reserve label for Dutschke, representing the best of the vintage from the highly precious 1975 block of Shiraz. Grapes are harvested and crushed, the must is inoculated and vinified over a period of ten days in fermenters under a shed veranda, before being transferred to new and one year old French oak hogsheads for completion of ferments. Oscar is then racked and returned to the same French oak hogsheads where it is treated to maturation for twenty two months. Alcohol 14.8%

Dark, deep red colour. Ripe bouquets, dense and concentrated, appetizing aromas. A full bodied, ripe and generously fruit filled palate of black berries and plum. Spicy French oak characters and fine grain grape tannins compliment a round sweet fruit palate concentration. The finish is long, with firm tannins and clean acidity. It's a wine that is irresistible today and will continue to soften whilst gaining complexity.

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Dutschke Sami Cabernet Sauvignon 2006

Barossa Langhorne

At the tender age of six weeks, Samantha Dutschke was introduced to winemaking when her feet were dipped into a bucket of fermenting Cabernet, the idea being to make footprints on paper for her grandparents in America. Whenever a special Cabernet vintage occurs, a small quantity of a pure varietal Sami Cabernet is released.

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2006 was a good solid vintage. Colours were wonderful and fruit aromas released during ferment perfumed the air. A terrific vintage overall, there was some Cabernet Sauvignon found with tremendous flavour, earmarked for inclusion into the second edition of Sami Cabernet. Thanks to uncle Ken Semmler, with a few barrels of Joe and Colleen Borrett's Langhorne Creek fruit, 350 cases of something very limited and quite special has been produced. A mouthfilling, generously flavoured Cabernet wine aged in mainly new and one year old French hogsheads for twenty months. Great effort has been made to ensure the oak characters compliment and marry into the wine's sweet fruit rather than dominate it. Alcohol 14.8%

Deep scarlet colour. Violet and blueberry perfumes, some spice and leather, cocoa, cola and blackberry. A more-ish palate of dark berries, chewy, gummy fruit and intense varietal expressions of black currants with cassis, stylish tannins and defferential oak. A ripe, fully flavoured wine, very approachable now because of its fruit and softness, Sami will develop more complexity as she grows and evolves.

Dutschke St Jakobi Shiraz 2010

Barossa

Available by the case dozen only

In 1934 Oscar Semmler purchased a vineyard and grazing property across the road from where he and his brothers grew up, at the southern end of Lyndoch in the Barossa, alongside the St. Jakobi Lutheran church and school. From a mere thirty two rows of vine, planted on six acres in 1975 by Oscar's son Ken Semmler, the site is blessed by a harvest of the most outstanding quality fruit every year. St Jakobi Shiraz makes a wine that's rich in spice, dark cherry and chocolate characters, offering great tannin structure for longevity in the bottle.

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It is at the St Jakobi Church that the winemaker, his parents, their parents and grandparents have all been married. The vineyard is harvested over several days. Each parcel must be picked at a time that's just right, to a timetable across the flavour ripening spectrum, resulting in more complexity than if all the fruit were harvested on the same day. Inoculated and vinified in traditional open top fermenters, St Jakobi is then matured in a combination of French and American oak hogsheads, supplied by nine different coopers. After twenty months, the better barrels are combined to create a final wine of complexity that expresses the full potential of fruit from a superior site. Alcohol 14.8%


A deep red colour. Aromas of raspberry and red licorice, bouquets of anise and poppy seed, plum and soy, biscuit and fig. Characters of fruit compotes, white pepper, festive cake and mint. A splendid single vineyard Barossa Shiraz with mouth filling flavours, well integrated oak and tender tannins, to decant and to savour.

Dutschke Willow Bend Shiraz Merlot Cabernet 2011

Barossa

Available by the case dozen only

Willow Bend is where it all began for Dutschke. Back in 1990, the first release of a Shiraz, Merlot and Cabernet blend was packaged under the label Willowbend. Since then the branding has evolved into Dutschke, but Willowbend has continued to be the estate's most approachable and accessible wine. A great wine to drink now, the idea has always been to produce a consistently full and flavoursome young red by assembling components that perform best in concert. The vines may have aged, but very little is done differently since the inaugural 1990 vintage.

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Ken Semmler returned to the Barossa after a tour of duty with the RAAF, dodging anti aircraft fire above the jungles of Vietnam. He went to work on his father's farm planting vines which today are source to some of Lyndoch finest wine grapes. Only the best parcels are vinified and branded as Dutschke, the majority is passed on to other estates. Roughly equal proportions of Shiraz, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, off fully mature vines grown to the elite St. Jakobi family vineyard, founded by estate patriarch Oscar Semmler in the 1930s, are treated to an extended maturation of sixteen months in a combination of new and prior use American and French oak hogsheads. Alcohol 14.7%


Deep scarlet colour. A round soft red berry fruit palate with fine oak and tannin. Shiraz and Merlot provide the ripe sweet fruit, Cabernet gives structure and support. WillowBend is a very good wine to drink whilst young, after years in bottle the older editions have developed remarkable complexity while still maintaining their fresh fruit flavours.

Winemaker Wayne Dutschke is blessed by the foresight of his ancestors who planted the winery's vineyard at Lyndoch in the southern end of the Barossa Valley

Once upon a time around the end of the 19th century, this 72 acre patch of real estate included only a few acres of vineyard, with most of the area being dedicated to cropping and dairy cattle. At the start of the 1930's Oscar Semmler, winemaker Wayne Dutschke's grandfather bought the block and more vineyard was planted, but it remained primarily a grazing area for dairy purposes. Oscar's Semmler's Dad referred to the dirt as a wonder of creation, a fact borne out by the wine now coming from it. The vineyard of that time while reflecting the fortified market of the day, did not predict the potential to produce the rich varietal flavours found in current production.

Oscar's son Ken returned to the Barossa Valley in the early 1970's after first spreading his wings as a fighter pilot with the RAAF, dodging anti-aircraft fire above the jungles of Vietnam. Then in 1975, the transition began with Ken starting the planting of the beloved Shiraz, and it is this first area of Shiraz which provides the precious component of Dutschke Wines. Currently forty five acres are planted with Shiraz making up one third of that area, the balance including Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Chardonnay. Most of the fruit gets passed onto other Barossa winemakers.

Here at Lyndoch the growing conditions are reliable and consistent, allowing the production of premium wines year after year. It's rather fascinating to note that all varieties have performed well, both in an analytic sense and the all important consumer taste test!

In 1990 Ken and Wayne decided to keep some of these grapes for themselves and start producing wine of their own from this vineyard under the brand WillowBend. Production never intended to be a big time operation, with the bulk of the fruit each year being delivered to the Krondorf and Mildara Blass Winemakers.

With the 1998 vintage release, interest from the US led to the name being changed to Dutschke Wines and production for future vintages was revved up to support this market and many others that have followed.

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