Wine Composition
100% Grenache
Winemakers Comments
Light burgundy to cherry color. A whole bunch, brambly and wild berry feel on the nose. The palate is almost the reverse and stays soft and clean. Again there are Forrest fruits here but very light to medium-bodied.
Grapes vinified from one of the world's oldest Grenache vineyards, planted circa 1868 at the Stonegarden Vineyard, Eden Valley.
Matured in 100% fine French oak for two years and bottled unfiltered and unfined.
Limited production.
Award
James Halliday | 98 points
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
14%
TA
6.26 g/l
pH
3.39
Winemaker
Name: Mark Pearce
Cellar Techniques
Grapes vinified from one of the world's oldest Grenache vineyards, planted circa 1868 at the Stonegarden Vineyard, Eden Valley. Matured in 100% fine French oak for two years and bottled unfiltered and unfined.
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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