Mother Nature is a fickle beast, which makes winemaking a challenging art. The 2018 Vintage once again proved that timing is everything. With minimal winter rain we braced ourselves for a potentially difficult year but then spring arrived with bountiful water. The dry and hot summer restricted yield but amplified the quality of the harvest. The downside of the lower …
South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival is the largest open access visual arts festival in Australia. For the entire month of August, audiences are able to explore, engage with and discover the work of South Australian artists in a diverse range of unique spaces across the CBD, suburbs and SA regions, as locations from cafes and restaurants to schools, wineries, …
Think you know Barossa? Think again. It’s not all green vineyards, oak barrels and shiraz (while we do have plenty of those) We’ve got incredible food, emerging wine varieties and a generosity we’re damn proud of. We offer a true welcome; less jargon, more conversation. Barossa. Be Consumed returns to Melbourne this winter with a bigger line-up, which includes Izway …
With warmer summers and marginal conditions increasing it is essential that winemakers, who rely entirely on the weather, focus on the future of our regions across Australia and what that means from a sustainability perspective. “The wine for a hotter future might come from an ancient grape grown in Italy’s south”, says respected wine writer Max Allen. In the ‘Italian …
In the hot, dusty, northerly wind, Liam and I have just washed down the last press cage to officially close the 2019 Harvest. These conditions are be fitting of those that we experienced all year, and it is astounding that we have made some incredible wines despite everything we faced. That we have made such stunning wines is a direct …
The Barossa Valley is recognised globally for producing some of the finest and most collectable wines. Continuing our stellar run of great vintages, the 2016 vintage will be considered one of the great harvests of the last 20 years. Layered and complex, these wines will age for many years and will cement the Barossa Valley as one of the worlds …
The first wine ever made by Izway Wines was in 2003 it was just one barrel of wine and we called it Bruce. The following vintage we decided Bruce needed some Mates and our second wine was born. The original idea of Mates was to replicate the style that we saw made in Beaujolais, but with grapes that were relevant …
Spring is a significant time in viticulture and winemaking. The buds burst from dormancy and our next vintage begins to take shape. The cool mornings and sunny days also seem to wake me from a winter slumber – I feel energised from the sun’s warmth. Being a sport tragic this time of year also signifies finals footy, the start of …
We’re calling it here and now – the 2017 vintage was one of the Barossa’s best for Grenache and Aglianico. While the winter and spring leading into the 2017 vintage were cold and wet, with double the amount of rainfall of 2016, consistently cool conditions throughout the ripening period were ideal for these late ripening varieties. As a result, the …
