In our
Autumn/Winter Newsletter (via our website) we highlighted an article from Wine Enthusiast
praising the value of vintage variation: “Let’s honour each wine’s
terroir by allowing a new vintage to express itself as naturally as possible”. As a natural organic/biodynamic producer that
is entirely our philosophy.
In many parts of Australia, including the Barossa, Vintage 2011 was extremely wet and much cooler than normal. Many vineyards were affected with mildew and botrytis rot and much fruit was left unharvested. The different weather resulted in an atypical year with many producers and journalists writing 2011 off as an inferior vintage.
However, you cannot paint an entire region with the same brush and the diversity of the Barossa has meant that some brilliant wines have still come out of 2011. Our vineyard location in the North-Western Barossa (most North-Westerly vineyard & winery in the Barossa) combined with our organic/biodynamic farming techniques meant we could harvest all of our fruit, at optimum maturity and make very good wines. The wines certainly display the coolness of the vintage with more pepper, spice and florals than normal but they are still weighty, mouthfilling, flavoursome and well structured.
We are certainly pleased with our 2011 wines that have been released to date, including the reds we are currently releasing now as well as the old vine wines still maturing in barrel.
We have had some excellent third party endorsements of our 2011 wines from wine shows and critics.
Highlights include the 2011 Clarry’s GSM gaining three major trophies at the International Wine Challenge in London, as well as a Gold Medal in Canada and at the Barossa Wine Show.
James Halliday gave it 5 stars and had this to say: "It is a real surprise packet, its energy and fresh red fruit drive coming from the low alcohol; if ever there was proof that biodynamics can help vines weather the storm of incessant rain, this is it".
Tyson Stelzer also thought highly of it saying" “this blend has every right to a much higher price tag. The cool 2011 season makes for a particularly sophisticated Clarry’s, accented with fresh rhubarb, pepper and bay leaf. A fine, savoury tannin chassis promises unusual longevity”.
The 2011 Moppa Shiraz, just getting released was acknowledged highly with a Gold Medal at the recent New Zealand International Wine Show.
Nick Stock rated the 2011 Rosina as a ‘Best Value Wine’ in the Good Wine Guide 2012 and described it as “terrific”. He also rated the 2011 Florentine at 91 points and thought it was “bright, really tidy and composed”.
Our 2011 Buckboard Durif was chosen as the ‘People’s Choice Award’ for the Marananga Wine Show.
Louise Radman loved the 2011 Florentine: “This example from Kalleske is an absolute cracker”.
2011 is a unique vintage that’s produced diverse wines across the Barossa and Australia, some excellent wines amongst them. At Kalleske we strive for our wines to embrace the time (vintage) and place (vineyard) and that’s again what we've achieved in 2011 and we’re thrilled with the outcome, but we invite you to be the judge…
In many parts of Australia, including the Barossa, Vintage 2011 was extremely wet and much cooler than normal. Many vineyards were affected with mildew and botrytis rot and much fruit was left unharvested. The different weather resulted in an atypical year with many producers and journalists writing 2011 off as an inferior vintage.
However, you cannot paint an entire region with the same brush and the diversity of the Barossa has meant that some brilliant wines have still come out of 2011. Our vineyard location in the North-Western Barossa (most North-Westerly vineyard & winery in the Barossa) combined with our organic/biodynamic farming techniques meant we could harvest all of our fruit, at optimum maturity and make very good wines. The wines certainly display the coolness of the vintage with more pepper, spice and florals than normal but they are still weighty, mouthfilling, flavoursome and well structured.
We are certainly pleased with our 2011 wines that have been released to date, including the reds we are currently releasing now as well as the old vine wines still maturing in barrel.
We have had some excellent third party endorsements of our 2011 wines from wine shows and critics.
Highlights include the 2011 Clarry’s GSM gaining three major trophies at the International Wine Challenge in London, as well as a Gold Medal in Canada and at the Barossa Wine Show.
James Halliday gave it 5 stars and had this to say: "It is a real surprise packet, its energy and fresh red fruit drive coming from the low alcohol; if ever there was proof that biodynamics can help vines weather the storm of incessant rain, this is it".
Tyson Stelzer also thought highly of it saying" “this blend has every right to a much higher price tag. The cool 2011 season makes for a particularly sophisticated Clarry’s, accented with fresh rhubarb, pepper and bay leaf. A fine, savoury tannin chassis promises unusual longevity”.
The 2011 Moppa Shiraz, just getting released was acknowledged highly with a Gold Medal at the recent New Zealand International Wine Show.
Nick Stock rated the 2011 Rosina as a ‘Best Value Wine’ in the Good Wine Guide 2012 and described it as “terrific”. He also rated the 2011 Florentine at 91 points and thought it was “bright, really tidy and composed”.
Our 2011 Buckboard Durif was chosen as the ‘People’s Choice Award’ for the Marananga Wine Show.
Louise Radman loved the 2011 Florentine: “This example from Kalleske is an absolute cracker”.
2011 is a unique vintage that’s produced diverse wines across the Barossa and Australia, some excellent wines amongst them. At Kalleske we strive for our wines to embrace the time (vintage) and place (vineyard) and that’s again what we've achieved in 2011 and we’re thrilled with the outcome, but we invite you to be the judge…
