It's 30 degrees Celsius outside, the grapes are changing colour, vine growth is slowing down and it feels like another vintage is just around the corner...

The “Around Australia in 80 Sips” juggernaut rolled into Southern California last week as a precursor to Australia Day...

We have all heard that the common wisdom states red wine should be served at room temperature. “Common Wisdom” is what the masses are led to believe. You’d do well to keep in mind that it is common wisdom that elects our politicians, programs our television shows, and guilts us into driving a miserable Prius when we’d really rather be cruising along in a 1978 Aston-Martin V8 Vantage that sucks down gas like it was free RunRig...

...the love should be shown every day and not just the designated one day of the year. AND SO IT IS at Torbreck with ‘International Grenache Day’....

Last month, the Torbreck Barrel Hall was magically transformed into a concert venue for the second season of Barossa Klassik.  With the lights dimmed, glowing back-lit barrels and candlelight, the intimate setting provided the perfect atmosphere for guests to relax and enjoy an amazing listening experience, not to mention an acoustic that rivals some of the world's finest...

What better way to judge a wine than put it against some of the top wines of the world and invite renowned wine critics and sommeliers from across Australia to decide for themselves? That’s exactly what we did for the launch of The Laird 2006.  By showing a wine amongst what could be argued are its peers, gives a true indication of a wine’s worth...

Resting up after a (ahem!) difficult 2011 Barossa harvest? Not Dave Powell!

The infamous 2011 Vintage has finally drawn to a close today with Scott digging out the final Shiraz ferment as I type. It is fitting that the fruit in this last fermenter was sourced from Eden Valley, the region that I was resigned to not picking any grapes from at all...

What a wonderful start to our Harvest Weekend as we welcome international guests with warm and sunny Barossa weather.   Guests travel from all over the globe (China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, UK, and USA) to help Torbreck celebrate the 2011 vintage...

At this time of the year my winery staff numbers double in size...

The facet of winemaking that keeps me enthusiastic and interested above all else is probably the weather...

Our regular blog readers and customers probably know that Dave Powell, our proprietor and Chief Winemaker at Torbreck, is a rather quiet and reserved sort of guy. Not really one to blow his own trumpet and talk his wines or himself up.

It is with elation and no small amount of pride that Torbreck is honored to announce RunRig has been elevated to the rank of “Exceptional” wines in the most recent updating of Langton’s Classification of Australian Wine V.

Representing some of the best restaurants in Australia, twenty four Sommeliers gathered together in the sunny Barossa Valley...

Virtually every winery with half-a-clue about business seems to have their winemakers out flogging their wines somewhere in the world in the past couple of months. I know this from first-hand experience, since I’ve seen them all out there.