The Grape Barossa Grower Service Award was established to annually recognise the outstanding contribution of grape growers to their region, and as an opportunity to importantly acknowledge the voluntary service of those individuals. Nominations are made by their peers when[...]
The awards dinner for the 36th Barossa Wine Show was much like many that had gone before – full of good humour, expectation and ebullient celebration, all washed down with a general sense of community well-being and fortified with a[...]
Article originally published Oct. 6, 2010. At the time, Vic Kraft, seemed very old to me but this man (whose contoured face resembled the bark of an old vine) taught me so much about vineyards, pruning, weather and nature. I[...]
Halfway between Nuriootpa and Kapunda you will find Koonunga Hill, and this is where Ian Becker runs his “typical Barossa mixed farm,” Mount Charles. Ten and a half hectares of the 86ha farm are under grapes, alongside sheep and cropping[...]
Speaking to our Leading Ladies as vintage 2012 began, all the signs were positive for a ripper of a season, but as vintage now draws to a close it’s time to take stock of all the cuts and bruises, long[...]
The lifestyle and opportunities available here in the Barossa Valley can have a huge pull to bring travelling sons back home to their roots. Grape grower Karl Schiller was working overseas in New Zealand – where he met his now[...]
Adrian Hoffmann is a sixth generation Barossa vigneron. His family have been landowners here since 1857, and Adrian is now Director of Dimchurch vineyards at Ebenezer in the northern end of the Barossa Valley. He manages 120 hectares of vines[...]
Harvest is swinging into action, but our Leading Ladies seem to be an unusually relaxed bunch of early-vintage winemakers, with most of them looking forward to events happening after vintage – and enjoying the perfect weather. “Exciting times here at[...]
Grape grower Marty Gallasch runs his Vinhaven property at Ebenezer with the help of his dad, Frank. The property, which was previously called Birdwood, has been farmed since 1861 and used to be a mix of dairy, chickens, apricots, sheep[...]
Steven Schiller is a 4th generation farmer from Gomersal. His property takes in views of the Tanunda/Bethany area, swinging through Rowland flat with the Barossa Ranges as the background, through to the pine forests around Williamstown. On the western side,[...]
