Wine Composition
100% Riesling
Winemakers Comments
Beautiful, fresh, and crisp Riesling from Eden Valley. Very high quality with a good acidity that balances out all the other complex elements in the best possible way.
Previous Award
Halliday Wine Companion 2020 | 96 points
Technical Analysis
Alcohol Percentage
12 %
Vintage
Brothers Michael and Graeme Fechner are The Wombat General. This wine embodies the brothers' passion for the Eden Valley vineyard from which this wine is made, and honours their commitment to continuing their family's legacy of six generations of grape growing. This commitment has required both men to make their sacrifices. Upon the advent of the declining health of their mother, during tough times in the Australian wine industry, eldest brother Graeme abandoned his dreams of becoming a helicopter pilot, leaving Duntroon as a young cadet to take up the post of General in the family's grape growing business. During those years, Michael supplemented the family's income building dams, and soon earned the nickname Wombat when his absence was explained by the fact he was "out digging holes". As you enjoy this wine with friends or family, be sure to raise a glass to passion, commitment, and to The Wombat General!
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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