Wine Composition
100% Shiraz
Winemakers Comments
This evocative wine captures this spirit. It has been handcrafted with the use of traditional methods from the fruit of old vines and delivers a rich, opulent palate, a fleshy core of dark fruit sweetness and a finish of superb length.
Previous Awards
James halliday | 97 points
Vintage
This wine is a memorial to the majestic old vines which were tragically uprooted from their Barossa Valley earth during the infamous Vine Pull scheme of the 1980's. Our century old estate vineyard bears the name 'Black Sash' and pays tribute to the 'survivors' - those vines which serve as a living reminder of the value of resilience in the face of adversity and the relevance of tradition in an environment of constant change . This evocative wine captures this spirit. It has been handcrafted with the use of traditional methods from the fruit of old vines and delivers a rich, opulent palate, a fleshy core of dark fruit sweetness and a finish of superb length.
Winemaker
Name: Mark Pearce
Winery
Kellermeister is owned
and operated by the Pearce family. While continuing to do small things well and
have fun along the way, winemaker/owner Mark Pearce has firmly established
considerable pedigree, particularly around the winery's Shiraz and
Grenache-based wines in recent years. Under Mark's leadership the winery
achieved significant success on the world's biggest stage, the International
Wine Challenge, in London in 2012 being awarded the World's Best Shiraz,
Australia's Best Shiraz and the Barossa's Best Shiraz and then followed up in
2013 being awarded the Barossa's Best Shiraz, Grenache and Mataro. Today the
winery is rated in the top 7% of Australian producers by Australia's most
authoritative and acclaimed wine critic, James Halliday.
Kellermeister founded
initially by Ralph Jones in 1976 and named in honor of his German mother, who
died when he was a young boy and whose maiden name he recalled as being
'Keller' before being anglicized. Ralph's ambition in establishing
Kellermeister was to "play the Curtain Raiser" in the Barossa Valley,
hand making, hand bottling, and handselling small-batch wines of real
character. With his beloved wife Val beside him, he would purchase a
century-old Shiraz vineyard (known as Kellermeister's Black Sash vineyard
today) on a hill near the sleepy southern Barossa town of Lyndoch, and later
build the now-famous yet still humble mud brick cellar from the scorched red
earth of that unique and gloriously located site.
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