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Making our Fine Wines

At Hobbs our three red wines and three white dessert wines are all made from grapes grown in our own 15 acres of vineyard here in the Barossa Ranges. With Shiraz vines planted over a century ago, our vineyard is old, and our yields are low. Our fruit is rare and precious.

Our cooler climate ensures long, mild ripening conditions, resulting in the typically characteristic flavour and acid balance of the fruit.

 

Our Shiraz Wines

We make three styles of Shiraz wines – at Hobbs it’s something of a specialty.

Our Old Vine Shiraz is made through traditional wine making craft from our hundred year old vines. Our ‘Amarone style’ Shiraz is produced by hand-picking the grapes, then placing them onto racks and semi-drying before fermenting. Our fine Shiraz Viognier is created using fruit sourced from selected vines in our Viognier block, co-fermented with the Shiraz to make a wonderfully complex ‘Rhone style’ wine.

Scarce and sought-after, these three wines are all made in small volumes of less then 300 dozen.

Our Dessert Wines

Dessert wines are a special discipline. Hobbs dessert wines are made in a semi-dried style, concentrating the natural varietal flavours. There is no botrytis or fortification used in our dessert wines.

In addition to our white dessert wines, we make a dessert Grenache wine in the same semi-dried style. The fruit for this wine is picked from an old vineyard in the valley – one that grows some exceptional Grenache vines. In 2005 we have intensified the dessert wine style to match the German and Austrian styles of sweet wines. The berries have been dried yet further to achieve a higher baume. This in turn increases the concentration of natural flavours within each shrivelled berry, producing an intensely concentrated, rich wine. This sweet flavour comes at a cost in terms of volume - from each tonne of grapes, we make only around 200 litres of wine in this style.
 
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