Shobbrook Wines
Handmade, natural wines from South Australia.
Our wines are made as naturally as possible — using the wild yeasts that are part of each vineyard's ecosystem, and adding only a tiny amount of sulphur before bottling.
Fresh news!
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2009 Syrah is Jancis Robinson's wine of the week.
"So very different from most Barossa Valley Shirazes. Ah, I see it's a Syrah! Really very fine. Meaty, savoury finish. But with a great ‘smoothed’ texture. Ambient yeast. A caressing wine." 17 points
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‘The Future Makers’ by our mate Max is out!
Max has been kind enough to put some good stuff about us in his hefty new tome. Here's a review and a nice interview with the guys from Qwoff.
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Winner of the Wine Australia Medal, 2010
We had a brilliant night in Melbourne at the Gourmet Traveller show. Congratulations to Sue Hodder and Allen Jenkins, and Robert O'Callaghan on their awards, too.
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Max Allen's Real Australian Wine Blog
Winner of the Wine Australia Medal ('best new talent') is Tom Shobbrook, making some stunning wines under his own labels - new interpretations of Barossa classics.
The Wines
Order any pre-release wine before December 1 for a 10% discount.
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2011 Nouveau Nouveau
The new year is upon us - an unsulphured Mourvèdre bottled right at the last moment of fermentation. It has a light spritz - something refreshing, with loads of spice. 13.5% alc/vol. Geography & viticulture: Hand picked fruit from the Shobbrook vineyard in Seppeltsfield. $22/75cL bottle. Available now.
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2010 Eden Valley Riesling Pre-release
12% alc/vol. Geography & viticulture: Hand picked riesling from the Eden Valley, South Australia. $32/75cL bottle. Pre-release orders available
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2010 Seppeltsfield Vino
A salasso of the 2010 Syrah, no longer a rosé but not quite a red. 8 months in barrel. Serve lightly chilled in the Summer, and table-top temperature in the Winter. 13.5% alc/vol. Geography & viticulture: Hand picked Shiraz from the Shobbrook vineyard in Seppeltsfield. $22/75cL bottle. Sold out
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2009 Tommy Ruff Shiraz Mourvèdre
Mostly Shiraz, topped up with a splash of Mourvèdre. 12 months in large French casks before being trickled off into bottle. 14.5% alc/vol. Geography & viticulture: Hand picked fruit from the Western Barossa. $26/75cL bottle. Available now.
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2010 Seppeltsfield Merlot Pre-release
Mum's vineyard, growing on the red-brown earth at Seppeltsfield gave us fruit for one barrel of Merlot. 14% alc/vol. Geography & viticulture: Hand picked fruit from Shobbrook vineyard in Seppeltsfield. $30/75cL bottle. Available now.
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2011 Ebenezer Mourvèdre Pre-release
The Mourvèdre is available both sulphured and unsulphured. 14% alc/vol. Geography & viticulture: Hand picked fruit from Ebenezer, Northern Barossa. $40/75cL bottle. Pre-release orders available
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2010 Seppeltsfield Single Vineyard Syrah Pre-release
The 2010 will be offered en primeur for a limited time before release.
14% alc/vol. Geography & viticulture: Hand picked fruit from the Shobbrook vineyard in Seppeltsfield. Pre-release orders available Purchase En Primeur-->
Looking for information on past releases?
Shobbrook & Riecine at Prince Wine Store, Melbourne - Sat, July 09, 2011.
A happy sheep roasted over charcoal and some great wine to be tasted, in the courtyard at Prince's South Melbourne store. Come along from midday - it's free of charge.
Seasonal Barrel Tastings
Once or twice a season we hold a barrel tasting at the winery — so our friends can come out, see how the wines are made, meet the dogs, and experience the wines as they are before they're bottled.
We'll take a bit of a tour, have some lunch — usually including our own smallgoods and whatever the vegie patch is offering at the moment — and a glass of something good.
If you like what you see, write your name on your chosen barrel — once your wine is in the bottle, we'll send it out to you.
We don't currently run a full time cellar door, so if you'd like to visit and purchase some wines, the barrel tasting is your best bet.
Next barrel tasting: Post vintage 2011 (once we've found all the grapes!)
We have room for 12 guests at each tasting. They're free of charge.
Ordering & Stockists
Order online here or visit one of our stockists.
How to find us
View Shobbrook Wines - vineyards in a larger map
Press & Reviews
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Jancis Robinson on the 2009 Seppeltsfield Syrah
29th April, 2011
Lustrous crimson. Very sweet and rich and beautifully balanced. But great freshness on the finish. Vibrant finish. So very different from most Barossa Valley Shirazes. Ah, I see it's a Syrah! Really very fine. Meaty, savoury finish. But with a great ‘smoothed’ texture. Ambient yeast. A caressing wine.
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Alice Feiring - Tom Shobbrook Takes Manhattan.
November, 2010
Take a look at their site and see the mad energy. They are in that nascent moment where everything is possible and positive and their velocity searing. They've attracted huge attention&emdash;at least on their home turf. Tom in his first Shobbrook vintage became Gourmet Traveler's winemaker on the rise of the year, proof that Australia is craving something real to drink.
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Natural wonders - Huon Hooke.
August, 2010
Shobbrook seems like a quality man: he's worked in quality wineries such as Riecine in Tuscany (for five years) and isn't interested in faulty wine.
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Jeni Port - Natural Selection Theory.
February, 2010
All you need know is that there is a change coming to world winemaking and it is largely in response to … suspicious-sounding winemaking technologies, the kind that Australian and other New World winemakers have generally prided themselves on.
Should we call it a movement?
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Max Allen - Wine, It's a Natural.
March, 2009
Tom Shobbrook in the Barossa and Anton van Klopper in the Adelaide Hills are banging the Natural Wines drum. And it’s a deep, resounding rhythm, too. Over lunch recently – various things shot, caught, grown and gathered by the two winemakers – Tom and Anton opened their latest bottles. The wines were just gorgeous.
So — say hello!
If you're in the neighbourhood, let us know - we love to catch up with new people and try a barrel or two.
- Email: info@shobbrookwines.com.au
- Phone: 0438 369 654 or from overseas: +61 438 369 654
- Post: Shobbrook Wines,
PO Box 609, Greenock, South Australia, 5360.
Get in touch
Email: info@shobbrookwines.com.au
or phone: 0438 369 654
Tom Shobbrook makes Shobbrook wines
He also goes by the name of Didi, under which moniker he makes some very unconventional wines with an Italian influence, and is part of Natural Selection Theory — makers of the Voice of the People seasonal wines, which you may have seen on the counter of your favourite wine bar, as well as ciders, smallgoods, olives and anything else they can throw into a pot.
He gets up very early to launch balloons with Barossa Valley Ballooning.
He's the winner of Gourmet Traveller's Wine Australia Medal for 2010.
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