Low
yielding, old and dry grown Barossa Valley
vineyards are the cornerstone of Torbreck
Vintners where traditional, manual
winemaking methods and minimal
intervention are combined to produce a
variety of wines each year. The growers we
work with have been selected for their
unique vineyard sites and spartan approach
to viticulture - Torbreck wines are
concentrated in the vineyards, not in the
winery. Our website enables you to
discover all of our wines and the
vineyards that give them life.
'Dave
Powell, unquestionably one of the world's
finest wine producers, has an uncanny
ability to discover old vine Barossa
vineyards, and then secure long term
contracts for their fruit.'
Torbreck
Vintners was founded by David Powell
in 1994. The roots go back to 1992 when
Dave, who was then working at Rockford,
began to discover and clean up a few
sections of dry-grown old vines. Near
lifeless, he nurtured them back to health
and was rewarded with small parcels of
fruit that he made into wine. Dave 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
vineyard. This share-farming principle has
enabled Torbreck to use fruit from
the very best vineyards in the Barossa
Valley, which is home to some of the most
precious old vines in the world.
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 a forest
in Scotland where he worked as a
lumberjack.
Address:
Lot 51, Roennfeldt Road, Marananga, SA,
5352
Phone:+61 (8) 8562 4155 Fax: +61 (8) 8562
4195
www.torbreck.com
