Winery: Teusner
Region: Barossa Valley
Variety: 65% Grenache, 25% Mataro, 10% Shiraz
Vintage: 2009
Your Wine Guy says:
Rich intense aromas of raspberry and plums followed by some spice and earthiness tempt the nose. The medium weight palate shows spicy flavours of dark berry and plum with some black pepper on the back palate. Velvety tannins finish with long aftertaste of dark raspberry, cherry, spice and black pepper. A beautiful wine for drinking now and will continue to drink well over the next 4 years.
94 Points YWG Drink to 2015
Critics say:
“Super bright and vibrant, with crunchy, clearly defined blackberry fruit framed by attractive mocha notes; the palate is fruitful on entry, and then moves to great depths of minerals and licorice; long, satisfying and eminently slurpable, no need to wait for this wine to come around. Grenache/Shiraz/Mataro. Screwcap.”
94 Points Drink to 2014 James Halliday Top 100 James Halliday’s Wine Companion
“Floral, fruity, fresh and delicious. Exactly what lovers of Joshua are hoping for. Enough guts and enough tannin to give it a sturdiness too. Very dry through the finish. Warm with alcohol but complex and bright. Love the smell, love the flavour, not so keen on the warmth but love the fine, nutty, focussed finish.”
93 Points Drink 2010-2015 Campbell Mattinson The Wine Front
The winemaker says:
“Joshua is the first name of one of my earliest ancestors in the Barossa Valley. It is also the name of my youngest nephew, and son of my business partner, Michael Page. This fusion of young and old means the name 'Joshua' perfectly characterizes this wine.
Joshua is made from Grenache, Mataro and Shiraz harvested from vineyards with up to 80 years of heritage in the Barossa Valley. It is an age old style, made famous in the Rhone valley.
We have, however, crafted this wine to retain its youth and vibrancy, to demonstrate what well maintained, old vine Barossa Grenache is all about. It is a wine that displays copious amounts of fresh red berry fruits and dusty tobacco leaf, without the intrusion of oak influence. A splash of Mataro adds to the earthy complexity, whilst a little Shiraz is used for structure and weight.
The ripe tannins of the Grenache are gently supportive, without being intrusive.
This is a wine designed to enjoy immediately that will cellar well for at least five years.” 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:
“Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity. Will have at least two wines rated at 94 points or above, and have had a five-star rating for the previous two years.”