Wines By Torbreck

Excellent Langtons Classification. A single vineyard wine and the Barossa's first ever co-fermented Shiraz Viognier, from fruit grown next to the winery block on Roennfeldt Road, planted to cuttings off old RunRig vineyards, some of the oldest genetic material in Australia. Built to last and evolve for many years, the Descendant's immediate charm can be enjoyed immediately upon release after a few hours of essential breathing.

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The Torbreck endeavour is based around precious Barossa vineyards and a love for the classics of Rhone Valley. In 1995 Dave Powell crushed three tonnes of grapes and fermented wine in a shed on his Marananga property. He named his wine Torbreck after a forest in Scotland where he worked as a lumberjack. The deep red clay soils at Marananga produce fruit which is savoury and rich, a satin texture and glorious perfume. Shiraz is crushed straight on top of Viognier grapes which have been lightly pressed for RunRig. The mixture is co-fermented and treated to eighteen months maturation in a selection of 2½ year old French oak barrels which have previously been used for the ageing of RunRig. Alcohol 14.8%


Completely black/ purple with healthy, vibrant magenta hues. A pure, wild, powerful nose of blackberry and tar is complimented by a gentle floral lift of lavender and violets. Full bodied with great concentration, silky tannins and perfectly judged extract, a vigorous and suave young wine.

Torbreck Les Amis Old Vine Grenache 2010

Grenache

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Dave Powell was honoured when good friend Ignatius Chan asked him to make a wine for his renowned Singapore establishment. Powell sourced a unique parcel of Grenache from old vines on the devigorated soils of western Seppeltsfield to create Les Amis, a testament to what the most exacting standards of viticulture can achieve. A harvest of the most precious fruit, gifted with purity, intensity and finesse. Les Amis flaunts the poise, concentration and panache with which only the world's greatest terroirs are endowed.

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Bringing the forgotten practice of share farming back to the Barossa has secured for Torbreck a regular supply of fruit from the best old vineyards. Les Amis is an exclusively Grenache wine vinified from grapes grown to the southern facing Homes site at Seppeltsfield planted in 1901. Vines stand only inches from the ground and the fruit is painstakingly picked, the small batch was destemmed into a single cement vat where it spent seven days before being basket pressed directly into new French oak barriques. After eighteen months, the best barrels were marked for inclusion into Les Amis, racked and assembled. The finished wine was left to settle before bottling without the use of fining or filtration. Alcohol 15.2%

Dense, saturated ruby/ purple hue. Delicate scents of Chinese five spice, smoke, white flowers and roasted herbs precede a dense, brooding core of black cherry, coal and scorched earth. The well delineated palate offers tremendous texture and combines glorious fruit purity with subtle nuances. Multi-dimensional and incredibly intricate, the wine finishes with crisp acids and a cloak of beautifully ripe, polished tannins. Revealing a savoury elegance in its youth, Les Amis will continue to build in complexity for many years to come. World class Grenache doesn't come better than this.

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Torbreck RunRig Shiraz Viognier 2005

Barossa

Langtons Excellent Classification. From vines up to 140 years old grown at the Marananga, Moppa, Gomersal, Greenock and Kalimna vineyards in the Barossa. A flagship wine of port-like concentration, phenomenal density, dry grown Old Vine Shiraz is blended with Viognier, compounding the wine's epic dimensions. There are magnificent notes of blackberry swathed in sweet gentle smoke, big cassis charcters, soothing leather and coffee. A true Vin du Garde to reward enthusiasts of world class, outstanding Australian reds.

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A mostly Shiraz Cuvée aged for thirty months under a combination of new and prior use French oaks, totted up by a measure of younger sultry Viognier juices aged for six months. Yields at the superlative little source parcels are often a minuscule single ton to the acre, ensuring very tiny amounts of precious wine are ever released.

Deep colour and hues, RunRig is immediately impressive. The colour is completely opaque, right to the rim of the glass. The nose is also imposing with magnificent notes of lifted spice, highly fragrant with spiced blackberry aromas. Closer investigation reveals wonderfully multi-dimensional but very condensed aromas at this early stage. A hint of the Viognier's sweet marmalade character comes through as the wine sits in the glass. The intensity of flavour hits the mouth like a gale. A dark, rich and concentrated palate displays the up front flavour of apricot nectar, and flows into brooding cassis, anise and tar. This wine possesses a multitude of different facets and nuances that will constantly change and evolve.

Torbreck RunRig Shiraz Viognier 2010

Barossa

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Oustanding Langtons Classification. RunRig was a system that the highland clans employed to distribute property and holdings. The emphasis was never on any one proprietor or farm, but rather the communal element of the whole. Torbreck's flagship, hand picked Shiraz grapes from old dry grown vineyards are assembled with a choice parcel of Viognier. Although wonderfully aromatic, RunRig is a wine which exhibits so much power and latent richness that it compares with the beautifully fragrant and tautly structured efforts of Côte Rôtie.

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The old, sun drenched vineyards of Barossa can often be affected by significant droughts, restricted canopy growth, low nutrient levels and tiny yields. Fortunately, the Old Vine RunRig blocks thrive in these conditions and the quality of fruit is truly remarkable. Shiraz from Marananga and Greenock, Moppa and Gomersal, Kalimna and Ebenezer are gently de-stemmed into wooden and concrete open top fermenters for six or seven days on skins. After basket pressing the wine is run directly into a mix of new and seasoned French oak barriques for thirty months maturation. During the final assemblage, a small addition of estate grown Viognier is added before bottling, without any fining or filtration. Alcohol 15.5%

Dense, saturated, inky colour. The delightful aromatics are released as soon as the wine is de-corked, exhibiting layers of raspberries, smoke, graphite and melted tar soar from the glass, apricots and crème de cassis cloaking subtle hints of cherry and black olive. A dark, rich and concentrated palate flows from black fruits into brooding anise and dark chocolate, all bound by tight, grainy tannins. Full bodied with great intensity and amazing freshness, RunRig possesses a multitude of different facets and nuances which will continue to evolve. Although extremely intense, the wine's power is cloaked within its balance and concentration, surging forth as an expansive sensation, in a way that only the greatest wines can show.

Torbreck The Bothie Frontignac 2012 375ml

Barossa

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On a highland trail, the place to stop and rest when weary is known as a Bothie. Torbreck have been tinkering away at a sweet wine since 2001, the idea was always to construct something that's just a little bit different. This sweeter style of Frontignac exhibits lifted fruit aromatics, lifted perfumes of rosewater and honeydew melon, geraniums and lime, very characteristic of it's Barossa provenance. Bothie is a very versatile wine that can be enjoyed either at the start of a meal or nicely chilled at the end, alongside fresh fruits and cheese, ice creams or sorbet.

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Torbreck's owner operator David Powell has always been a huge fan of France's Muscat Beaumes de Venise. Muscat à Petits Grains (Brown Frontignac) grapes are harvested from Helbig Vineyard at Marananga in several stages to acheive different levels of ripeness, creating a myriad of potential flavours. Grapes are gently crushed and pressed with as little skin contact as possible to minimize phenolics. Fruit is treated to a slow vinification in fermenters, halted mid way by the addition of a neutral spirit to arrest yeasts against further acivity and raise alcohol level to around fourteen percent, retaining Brown Frontignac's natural sweetness. Alcohol 13.4%


A vibrant, straw/ peach yellow colour. Beautifully fragrant aromas of fresh pine/ lime, melon and lychees are accompanied by extraordinary floral notes. The subtle, clean flavours of lemon sorbet, lemon tart and orange rind balance perfectly with the residual sugar to achieve a full, lush, round palate. A sweet but substantial wine, equally enjoyable as aperitif or dessert.

Torbreck The Factor 2009

Barossa

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In the early 1980s, due to lack of demand, the government paid incentives to growers to rip out their vines and gut some of Australia's most precious old vineyards. The movement to cool climate viticulture made the Barossa, of all places, look rather irrelevant. The Factor is Torbreck's salutation to those dedicated growers who stood by their vines and continue to painstakingly produce small harvests of the most splendid Shiraz. A wine of immense concentration and great purity of fruit that only the most meticulous husbanding of vines can achieve.

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The experience with old vines Shiraz began after the discovery of derelict sites around the Barossa. David Powell took an interest and nursed them back to health, he was rewarded by the proprietors with small parcels of fruit which he made into wine. The formula has served to produce small batch efforts which are recognized as some of Australia's most distinguished wines. Parcels of Shiraz on old dry grown vineyards at Marananga and Greenock, Krondorf, Gomersal and Ebenezer are selected for their quality and individual charm, separately vinified and matured up to two years in a selection of new and seasoned French oak barriques, followed by assembling and bottling without fining or filtration. Alcohol 15.4%

Deep scarlet with robes of tawny red. Delicate scents of wild blackberries, pipe smoke and pepper are supported by a dark core of espresso roast, black currants and coal. The nose expresses soil, earth and vinuous tones of vibrant black jelly fruit. The palate offers tremendous texture and combines great richness with subtle notes of olive tapenade, saddle leather and mineral. Brooding and densely packed, this majestic wine continues to slowly unravel its extravagant riches.

Torbreck The Pict Mataro 2009

Mourvèdre

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Torbreck are strongly influenced by French wine styles. The wild, rugged and earthen aromas associated with France's Bandol provide the basis for The Pict, a powerful single vineyard, pure Mataro wine. Sourced exclusively from a plot of ancient vines near the hamlet of Greenock, the palate is elegantly rich, earthy and beautifully balanced for early drinking, a profound expression of Mataro, untamed and wild, almost certainly enough to satiate a Pictish warrior.

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From the Materne Quarry Block at Greenock planted circa 1927. The outstanding raw material from this truly unique site has warranted special attention, leading to the creation of an individual bottling. This spectatular property is surrounded by cereal paddocks, providing very little protection from local bird life, the entire vineyard requires netting each year. The small batch of Mataro is hand picked and destemmed into a single cement vat for seven days before gravity draining and a basket press. Juice are racked into new French oak barriques for the completion of malolactic and two years maturation. The best barrels were assembled into the final wine before bottling without fining or filtration. Alcohol 15.0%

Black and neon purple in colour. Fresh soil, tree bark, cassis and leather dominate the nose, as hints of spice, chocolate and drying meats evolve with time in the glass. The expansive palate is rich and dense showing a rustic core of earth, tar and black olive all tightly framed by the wines mineral strewn tannins. Beautifully balanced in its youth with the constitution and structure to develop magnificently.

Torbreck The Steading 2009

Barossa

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On a highland farm, the array of barns, stables and outbuildings is known as a steading. Steading GSM has long been David Powell's favourite wine within the Torbreck stable because of the old, gnarled bush vines that produce its core. Grenache, Mataro and Shiraz grown to ancient sites at Marananga and Greenock, Moppa and Seppeltsfield, Gomersal and Ebenezer, perform brilliantly in their own right. When assembled however, their strengths coalesce into a wine of remarkable structure and bucolic grace.

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Steading is an ode to the great old vines which escaped government sponsored uprootings of the 1980s. There are still ancient Barossa vineyards planted to Grenache, Mataro and Shiraz, brought over from Europe on original pre-phyloxera rootstock. Share farming agreements with the Barossa's best growers ensures access to these precious sites. There are over forty different parcels, all vinified and matured separately. Grapes are de-stemmed into open top fermenters, gently pumped over for up to a week, basket pressed and gravity fed into underground vats before racking into older French oak hogsheads for two years maturation before assemblage and bottling without any fining or filtration. Alcohol 15.1%

Deep ruby with flickers of violet. Delicate aromas of truffle, five spice and spring flowers are supported by a rich core of licorice, saddle leather and provencale herbs. Burgundian in style, the palate is elegant and pure with subtle notes of crushed cherries, earth and cedar all neatly wound by a taut spine of acidity and ripe supple tannins. A wine of amazing integration and complexity which will continue to evolve.

Torbreck The Struie 2011

Barossa Eden

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The view from Struie down towards Dornoch Firth is as inspiring as the panorama across Barossa's Valley floor from atop the elevated ranges. David Powell assembles Shiraz wines from ancient, isolated little Barossa Valley vineyards, some being well over a century old. Sourced from several elevated sites throughout the Barossa and Eden Valleys, Struie reflects the cooler side of the region and showcases the subtle nuances which can be gained from hillside viticulture, for a full bodied and powerful, rich red wine of purity, focus and intensity.

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Named after a hill which rises above Glenmorangie distillery, Struie is the home of a pub called Altman Arms, where David Powell first heard a band called Run Rig. Sourced from several elevated sites along the Barossa Valley (sixty+ year old vines) and Eden Valley (forty+ year old vines). Grapes grown to the Eden Valley's higher altitudes ripen slower and later than their cousins down in the Barossa, resulting in distinctive quality of fruit with a lower pH and higher natural acidity, elegant, tightly structured and highly prized by winemakers. Batches are separately fermented and matured for eighteen months in a selection of mostly seasoned French oak barriques. Alcohol 15.2%

A dense and completely opaque hue, exhibiting sheen and viscosity. Aromas of black raspberry, crème de cacao and star anise around a fragrant core of slow roasted meats, scorched earth and olive tapenade. Full bodied and tightly structured, the palate exhibits perfect ripeness and brooding richness along with a spine of beautifully integrated acidity and fine tannin that will greatly reward. A beautifully weighted, old vine Barossa with an extra dimension of rum and raisin throughout, a Shiraz of and remarkable effusiveness and immense concentration.

Torbreck Woodcutter Shiraz 2012

Barossa

Before David Powell took on the task of raiding Barossa vineyards, he spent several years on the Scottish Highlands as a lumberjack in the Torbreck forest. Woodcutter Shiraz is a highly approachable introduction to the Torbreck range, featuring fruit from some of the up and coming vineyards, rather than the battle hardened old warriors which make up the heart and soul of the Torbreck winelist. This is the kind of red the winemaker himself liked to drink with a hearty meal after a hard day's work in the wood, but you don't have to be a woodcutter to enjoy it.

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From good vineyards at Greenock and Ebenezer, Marananga and Gomersal, Moppa, Lyndoch and Kalimna, hand tended by the Barossa's most capable growers. Low yielding, old, dry grown vines are the cornerstone of Torbreck. Manual winemaking methods and minimal intervention are combined to produce a profound style. The growers have been selected for the uniqueness of their site and spartan approach to viticulture. The focus at Torbreck wines is on the vineyards, not the winery. Woodcutter is fermented in cement, wooden and inox vats over the course of a week, basket pressed to well seasoned hogsheads and French oak foudres for a year, bottled without fining or filtration. Alcohol 14.9%

Dark scarlet colour. Sweet boysenberry and candied plum, floral oils and cured meat on the nose, a refreshing mineral tone. Blackberry and raspberry, cherry and licorice, peppery aromas soar from the glass of this opulent, voluptuously textured Shiraz. Boasting superb purity, length and intensity, this beauty simply over delivers, juicy and nicely balanced with an attractive interplay of red and dark berry flavors given focus by crisp but not strident acidity. Finishes tangy and bright, with no obtrusive tannins, a delicious introduction to the Torbreck style.

Low yielding, old and dry grown Barossa Valley vineyards are the cornerstone of Torbreck Vintners

Torbreck founder David Powell was immersed in the study of Economics at Adelaide University, when an uncle introduced him to wine. Young Dave realized that grapes could be more intriguing than numbers. He began spending more and more of his spare time in the Barossa Valley and during the winters, he availed himself of the opportunity to venture overseas to work harvests in California and Italy. He travelled throughout the famous wine regions of Europe and even spent time in Scotland as a lumberjack. This experience was instrumental in illuminating the unique attributes of the Barossa, at a time when others felt its heritage was past the sell by date.

Finding work at Rockford, Powell became steeped in the traditional culture of the Barossa as the idea of owning his own winery began to take shape. David was saddened by the vinous devastation caused by the mid 1980s government sponsored ‘Vine Pull’ scheme. He became convinced that a market existed for old vine wines as influenced by the classic Rhône styles. Lacking deep pockets (but inspired nonetheless), he set about approaching local landowners concerning their neglected properties.


Powell began to discover and clean up a few sections of dry grown old vines and was able to secure a contract for the supply of grapes from a run down but ancient Shiraz vineyard. He managed to raise enough money to share farm the vineyard, a practice which involves paying the owner a percentage of the market rate for his grapes in return for totally managing the property. Dave nurtured these old, lifeless and overgrown vineyards in his spare time. Near lifeless, he brought them back to health and was rewarded with small parcels of fruit which he made into wine. Bringing the old practice of share farming back to the Barossa subsequently secured for him a regular supply of fruit from the best Shiraz, Grenache, and Mataro vineyards, including a few hectares of what are thought to be among the oldest grapevines on the planet. In return for his equity of toil and sweat, Powell’s efforts were rewarded with a few parcels of dry grown fruit, and he turned these wages into the first bottles of Torbreck. As the first vintages lay in barrel, Dave thought back to his experiences overseas and realized that the growers of the Barossa Valley had overlooked the suitability of the French white Rhône varieties. Powell purchased 30 acres of land in Marananga in 1994 for the purpose of planting Marsanne, Roussanne, and Viognier. Shiraz was included in the mix in what is now known as the Descendant Vineyard, also the site of the new Torbreck winery.	In 1995 Dave crushed three tonnes of grapes and fermented them into wine in a shed on his 12-hectare Marananga property. He named his wine Torbreck after the forest in Scotland where he worked as lumberjack. Other acquisitions (included a one hundred year old vineyard that had been previously share farmed) soon followed, and Torbreck continues to follow the path of sourcing the best fruit possible from its own vineyards and those of select growers. It can be said that the Torbreck portfolio offers the best of both worlds, old and new. Powell is a passionate believer in the Barossa Valley and its viticultural heritage. Dave loves the intense, rich, Rhone-like flavours that come from old vines. His approach to grapegrowing and winemaking melds the region’s terroir with its traditional winemaking practises. In so doing he has achieved a style that fuses his love for the Barossa with his admiration for the valleys of the Rhône.
In July 2002 the historic Hillside property was acquired by Torbreck. Situated in Lyndoch, it is one of the original Barossa properties. Vast and picturesque it contains some magnificent old and ancient vineyards that will further the source of premium quality fruit. The Hillside property contains a wonderful native ecosystem that supports a myriad of flora and fauna which Powell intends to turn it into a nature reserve. An original settlers hut has been lovingly restored as the winery cellar door and provides a personal touch with some Barossa warmth. A new winery and administration facility was completed on land acquired from a next door neighbour. Complete control of all aspects of production have seen a new benchmark of wine quality established by Torbreck in the Barossa.

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