Barossa and Eden Valley
100% Cabernet Sauvignon
14.5% Alc
12 months in French Oak Barrel, 20% new
20 Years Vine
Beathe for 2 hours
Our Valley & Valley range of wines are produced from vineyards in both the Barossa and Eden Valleys. We aim for a style that typifies the Barossa – plush fruit, subtle use of oak and soft, round tannins. This Cabernet Sauvignon offers dark fruits, licorice and cassis notes with hints of spice and cedary oak on the nose. The palate is rich with good structure and fine tannins to give length and power while finishing soft and full of flavour.
GOLD– 2024 CWSA China Wine & Spirits Awards (Hong Kong)
GOLD – 2024 Sakura Wine Awards (Japan)
90 points – Antonio Galloni Vinous; Angus Hughson
Excellent work from the vintage here with a stylish mid-weight 2023 Cabernet Sauvignon Valley & Valley. Juicy and fresh, it has adequate mouthfeel and flavour, and the al-dente tannins provide just enough grip to hold a reasonable finish.
94 points – Wine Showcase Magazine; August 2024
Cassis, blackcurrant and violet aromas followed by a good dose of sweet dark berry flavours fill the mouth. Lovely Length!
92 points Sam Kim – Wine Orbit
This is immediately appealing on the nose, showing dark berry, dried herb, cured meat, and toasted nut aromas, leading to a supple palate offering ripe fruit intensity with finely pitched tannins, making it structured and sturdy with a harmonious finish. At its best: now to 2035
92 points Ray Jordan – winepilot.com
From the get-go there is a delightful pristine purity about this wine. It’s medium weight, most likely showing the influence of the higher altitude cooler vineyards. Fragrant and perfumed with notes of red currant and cedary herald this as cabernet, The medium-bodied palate is supported by angular tannins and a neatly laced oak influence. Focused and precise finish. Best in the shorter term.
Welland Valley & Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
The Welland story began with the arrival of the Krieg family, from Germany in 1847. The Kriegs became one of the Barossa’s founding families. Hardworking and successful business people, the family owned the local brickworks, a tannery and also a significant amount of orchard and vineyard at the northern end of the Nuriootpa township.
Welland vineyard was planted in 1923 by the Krieg family Situated on red clay soils, this vineyard for many years supplied premium fruit to well-known Barossa wineries such as Penfolds and Peter Lehmann. The Barossa has more than 550 grape growers. Many of these growers are generational and while the Krieg family never owned or operated a winery themselves, their vineyard became known amongst local winemakers as growing some of the region’s finest Shiraz.
Welland Today In 2017, the last few hectares of this old vineyard were listed for sale as a ‘development site’. The vines were within a whisker of meeting the bulldozers when a group of friends led by Ben and Madeleine Chapman purchased the block. Together they are now in the process of resurrecting this historic old vineyard.