Winery: Teusner
Region: Barossa Valley
Variety: Grenache, Mataro, Shiraz
Your Wine Guy says:
Grenache and Mataro were top performing varieties from the 2009 vintage in the Barossa and make up the majority of the salsa blend. A food friendly, savoury style of rosé that finishes dry with plenty of spice, mid-palate creaminess and red fruit notes. Great during the warmer months ... and the cooler ones too.
93 Points YWG Drink to 2013
Critics say:
“Nice cheeky rosy red with red fruits and an attractive floral perfume. It’s not too dry, nor too sweet, just juicy and well balanced with excellent length of flavour. A little clip of grip and herb on the finish is a lovely touch. Seriously drinkable.”
92 Points Gary Walsh The Wine Front 2010
The winemaker says:
“The fruit is grown specifically for Rose - not bled off of other ferments - in order to retain as much natural acidity and freshness as possible. The parcels of juice were pressed off skins and wild fermented in older hogsheads. Once ferment was completed the wines were left on lees in barrel for about 3 months, with twice weekly stirring. It is reasonably dry in terms of sugar (about 6g/L RS) but the sweet grenache fruit characters give a rich and luscious palate.
The nose begins quite creamy and round due to the lees aging, through which the spicy summer berry characters of the Grenache and Mataro shine through. The palate follows the nose quite closely, with a complete palate, tight clean structure and zippy acid.” Kym Teusner
Winery Information:
Kym Teusner is one of the Barossa’s young guns but with an old world influence. Many of his peers are making massively rich and ripe reds (often at very high prices), however Kym Teusner has aimed to balance the natural power of old vine Barossa material with careful, reductive winemaking to produce wines of incredible elegance and complexity. His wines are about as close as the Barossa gets to reminding the drinker of the Southern Rhône Valley in France.
The value for money they offer is quite astounding.
Kym was lucky enough to be guided by one of Australia’s (and perhaps the world’s) best old-vine specialist Dave Powell at Torbreck wines - renowned for their extremely high quality wines using the classic Rhône varieties like Shiraz, Viognier, Grenache, Mataro that regularly fetch very high prices sourcing fruit from very old vines within the Barossa.
Teusner formed as a partnership between Kym Teusner and brother- in-law Michael Page. Teusner Wines are focused on protecting very old, low-yielding, dry-grown Barossa vines. Kym Teusner was crowned Gourmet Traveller Young Winemaker of the Year in 2007 and produces wines which encapsulate the essence of the Barossa Valley, with remarkable complexity and elegance.
“Our philosophy is to produce only exceptional, affordable wines by being very selective about the fruit that we source from old, well maintained vineyards. These vineyards reliably produce balanced, complex fruit which we guide, with minimal inputs, into wine. Our fruit sources are predominantly family and close friends, which allows us this selectivity in which fruit we vinify.” Kym Teusner
Australian wine authority and critic, James Halliday (in Halliday’s Wine Companion), has awarded Teusner Wines a 5 Red Star rating, an accolade afforded to only the top 8% of Australia’s wineries.
Halliday describes the meaning of his 5 Red Star rating as an: