The 2022 season brought slow ripening in cooler conditions, creating a vintage with higher natural acidity, rich colours, and fine tannins. Torbreck's signature wine, The Steading, embodies the winery's philosophy. The 2022 blend features 50% Grenache, 31% Shiraz, and 19% Mataro. It offers vibrant aromas of red and blue fruits, including mulberry and cherry, with a more robust and plush palate than previous vintages. Sandalwood and other oak spices add to the wine's complexity. For maturation, it saw 20 months on fine yeast lees in large 4500L French oak foudre vats. Natural malolactic conversion occurred during time in barrel.
The Steading comes from multiple Barossa subregions - Gomersal, Lyndoch, Greenock, Moppa, Marananga, Seppeltsfield, and Ebenezer. The vineyards range from 40 to 150 year old vines that survived the worldwide phylloxera outbreak of the 1880s, and a century later, the vine-pull scheme in the Barossa in the 1980s.
The 2022 season brought slow ripening in cooler conditions, creating a vintage with higher natural acidity, rich colours, and fine tannins. Torbreck's signature wine, The Steading, embodies the winery's philosophy. The 2022 blend features 50% Grenache, 31% Shiraz, and 19% Mataro. It offers vibrant aromas of red and blue fruits, including mulberry and cherry, with a more robust and plush palate than previous vintages. Sandalwood and other oak spices add to the wine's complexity. For maturation, it saw 20 months on fine yeast lees in large 4500L French oak foudre vats. Natural malolactic conversion occurred during time in barrel.
The Steading comes from multiple Barossa subregions - Gomersal, Lyndoch, Greenock, Moppa, Marananga, Seppeltsfield, and Ebenezer. The vineyards range from 40 to 150 year old vines that survived the worldwide phylloxera outbreak of the 1880s, and a century later, the vine-pull scheme in the Barossa in the 1980s.