Life is for living and the season that epitomises this is spring! Awakening from a winter slumber, the first days of spring bring budburst and a renewed enthusiasm for fun and frivolity. Our Spring Fever brings out the best in everyone and is worthy of celebration with good friends and great food!

Old Barossa vignerons referred to their vineyards as gardens. The Three Gardens is a contemporary blend of Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne – varieties which, while new to the Barossa, show great promise. The best characteristics of each variety have been combined to create a truly harmonious wine. 

The Live Wire represents an energetic evolution of the traditional Riesling style introduced by our migrant ancestors in the 1840s. From the renowned Barossa region it is finely balanced with upfront fruit and a tangy crispness on the finish. Vivacious and perfectly refreshing!

Many people choose this vibrant style of wine for their drinking pleasure during the warmer summer months.  Bella Rouge, Italian for “beautiful” and French for “red” respectively, takes its inspiration from these two traditional wine cultures, to make a refreshing rosé wine perfect for al fresco dining with family and friends.

Old Barossa vignerons referred to their vineyards as gardens. The Three Gardens is a contemporary blend of Grenache, Shiraz and Mataro, varieties which have been grown in the Barossa since the 1840s. The best characteristics of each variety have been combined to create a truly harmonious wine.

Grenache has long been held in high esteem by Barossa winemakers. Despite being overlooked elsewhere due to a workhorse history, it has hidden depths and great potential.  Like a Rough Diamond, ordinary at first glance, its real beauty as a jewel is only revealed through cutting and polishing.

'Full-weighted. Boasting old vine character in spades. While this is distinctly older school, promoting fruit sweetness, the grape tannins and structural attributes are palpable. And appreciated. Things change. For the better. Very attractive. Clove, darker riffs on mulled cherry and raspberry and root spice. Mulberry pie. Gently reductive. A bit confected. This is a traditional address, assessing and moving with the times. A solid wine.' 91 Ned Goodwin, JamesSuckling.com

While the Barossa is renowned for its German heritage there is an important Italian influence too.  When the Della Mina family emigrated to South Australia from Italy in the 1930s, they were joined in marriage to the Lindner family, an enduring bond was forged based on a mutual love of family, farming, food and wine.

'Deep-ish red with a tint of purple and a subtle bouquet in which dried meat and a whisper of dried fruits figure, the palate is medium bodied and savoury, drying and yet soft textured. There's a nice touch of fruit sweetness at the core. A good and credible rendition of the grape varieties.' Huon Hooke 

Malbec is a historic variety originally native to southwest France, whose centre of gravity moved to the southern hemisphere in the late twentieth century. It is renowned for its age-worthy, deeply coloured, rich and smooth wines.  Here in the Barossa, it makes a real Black Beauty of a wine.

‘Medium to full-bodied, lots of sweet dark fruit and juicy presence, tastes like Malbec in a richer style, for sure, with a pleasing chew to tannin and good length. Vibrant and good to drink.’  91+  Gary Walsh

Jackaman’s vineyard is home to Langmeil’s finest and rarest Cabernet Sauvignon, planted in the 1960s during the Cabernet revolution in the Barossa. This vineyard was lovingly tended by the colourful Barossan Arthur Jackaman, a World War II paratrooper, boxer and butcher who in retirement passed his small plot into Langmeil’s care.

Orphan Bank is testament to Langmeil’s commitment to preserving old and rare Barossa vineyards. Ten rows of Shiraz planted pre-1860 were saved from the developer’s bulldozer and replanted alongside the original Langmeil vineyard on the banks of the North Para River. We called these ten rows the “Orphans”, but after 150 years they have a new home.

Pure Eden is a single site wine, made from an Eden Valley vineyard planted by Charles Angas in the 1890s.  Later owned by the Shiltons  1911  -1926;  Meakins 1926-1929; Roeslers 1929-1961;  Andretzkes  1961-2011  and  now  the  Lindner  family.  This  wine  is  a  reward  of  these guardians’ efforts for more than one hundred years.