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Kalleske wines are certified organic and biodynamic, estate grown and vinified with traditional minimalist winemaking techniques used to fully capture the essence of the vineyard allowing genuine handmade estate wines to be produced.
No additives or fining agents are used in the winemaking process ensuring all wines are vegan friendly.

Old Vine Range

Johann Georg Shiraz

Johann Georg Shiraz is a single vineyard wine produced from the oldest vineyard on the Kalleske farm, planted in 1875, that produces very low yields from gnarly, dry grown vines. The wine is a tribute to Johann Georg Kalleske, the first Kalleske ancestor to migrate to Australia from Prussia in 1838. The old vine fruit is open-top fermented, basket pressed and matured in new and used French and American hogsheads for two years prior to bottling. A powerful, but elegant wine of great sophistication showing flavours of dark berries, cured meats and savoury spice. The full-bodied muscular palate is rich and dense with finely textured tannins and fleshy dark fruit. A generous finish completes this magnificent wine that will benefit from a decade or more in the cellar.

Current Vintage Release: 2021

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The Johann Georg vineyard is the flagship of the Kalleske farm. It is the oldest vineyard on the Kalleske property and is fittingly named after the first Kalleske ancestor to migrate to Australia. Johann Georg was born in Brätz, Prussia in 1794 and migrated to South Australia with his wife and children in 1838. This vineyard was planted in 1875 and produces very low yields of around one tonne per acre from old, gnarly, dry grown vines.

Vineyard Age: Single Vineyard  planted 1875

Location: Moppa

Area: 2 acres

Yield: 0.75-1.25 tonnes/acre

Barossa Classification: Ancestor vines (>125 years old)

Grape characteristics: Strong textural aspect with intense, fine tannins and flavours of black fruits, savoury roast meat and black olive.

Elevation: 334 metres

Soil composition : Sandy top soil with traces of quartz over excellent clay subsoil

Aspect: East

Trellising: Single Wire Cane Pruned

Vineyard management practices

  • Certified Organic & Biodynamic
  • Hand pruned
  • Dry grown
  • Biodynamic compost and green-manure cover crop used mid-row
  • Hand picked

Troy Kalleske, is a seventh generation Barossan whose family has been growing grapes since 1853. Troy grew up amongst the vines and from a young age was grape-picking / pruning the vines planted by his great-great-great grandfather many years earlier.

Following Graduation from the University of Adelaide in 1999, Troy was part of the winemaking team at Penfolds, Veritas, Seppelts, Miranda, Lindemans, and Kendall-Jackson.

In 2002, after 149 years of farming and grape-growing by the Kalleske family, Troy took the next step and established the Kalleske winery. It is here where Troy hand crafts Kalleske wines.

Since releasing his own wines, Troy has rapidly gained national and international recognition as one of the Barossa’s and Australia’s best young winemakers. Troy has received numerous accolades with one of the most prestigious being the “2008 Barossa Winemaker of the Year” title awarded by the Barons of Barossa.

“Kalleske Johann Georg Shiraz is one of the oldest surviving vineyards in the Barossa and Australia.  It is the oldest certified organic/biodynamic vineyard in the Barossa and perhaps Australia.  This natural way of farming these ancient vines, combined with dry-growing, hand-pruning and traditional minimalist techniques in the winery including native yeast fermentation means this wine is genuinely unique.  It truly represents the time (vintage) and place (soil/location) where it is grown as well as expressing a living history of Barossan and Australian wine growing.”

Troy Kalleske, Winemaker

Post picking

Following picking the grapes are immediately transported to the on-site winery and within a few hours of harvest they are being processed.  No additives (sulfur etc) are added to the grapes.  The grapes are destemmed and gently crushed into a small open-top fermenter.

Pre-fermentation

The must is not inoculated at all and no sulfur, enzymes or tannins are used.  It is held at ambient temperature with natural pre-ferment soaking until the indigenous native yeast begin the fermentation.

Fermentation

The must is entirely wild yeast fermented.  Fermentation on skins is for 8-14 days where hand pumpovers are employed twice daily.   Ferment temperature ranges up to 30 degrees C prior to cooling back to 22 degrees C.  Must is gently pressed with free-run and pressings immediately combined at pressing.

Maturation

Following pressing the wine is filled to new (typically 50%) and seasoned French oak hogsheads.  The wine is matured in barrel for 2 years prior to bottling.  Extra tight 3 year seasoned French oak is chosen to show utmost respect to the fruit.  Two years allows the wine to mature and develop complexities whilst still maintaining vibrancy.  The wine is racked from barrel and bottled without any fining agents used and is non-filtered.

98 Points
“One of the most impressive wines I tasted on my trip to South Australia was the 2016 Johann Georg Old Vine Single Vineyard Shiraz, named for the first Kalleske to arrive in Australia back in 1838. The dry-grown vines were planted in 1875. It offers a tremendous mix of berries on the nose and palate, ranging from red raspberries to the darkest currants, and delivers them all with great intensity. Full-bodied, concentrated and creamy-textured, it finishes long and plush. Accessible now, it should possess 20 years of evolution.”
Joe Czerwinski, Robert Parker.com, September 2018 – Vintage 2016

Bio Wine of the Year Trophy
Double Gold Medal
2015 China Wine & Spirits Awards

98 Points
“This wine sits unchallenged at the head of the Kalleske shiraz tree. The grapes were treated with the care and attention they deserved in a small open fermenter for 12 days using a heading down screen that submerged the cap, pressed to French hogsheads (new and used) for 2 years. It’s got a juicy, supple mouthfeel with an unexpected lightness and finesse”.
James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion, August 2020

Halliday Wine Companion Magazine, Feb/Mar 2021
“This is the poster child for the merits of biodynamically grown fruit, with bright, ebullient flavours and heady aromas leaping from the glass.”

97 Points
“This has instantaneous appeal, its mouthfeel gently velvety, the flavours of perfectly ripened blackberries, plums and licorice, oak and tannins soing no more than provide respectful support. A lovely old vine wine that rose above the tribulations of the 2014 vintage”.
James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion 2018

97 Points
“This vineyard was planted in 1875. This wine is literally painful with the intensity and complexity of its unbridled black-fruited assault on the palate. You could write 100 words describing the aromas and flavours, the next person writing the same length, equally valid, but having nothing in common with the first description. Kalleske offers 13 specific flavour descriptors threaded through different, more general, observations”.
Halliday Wine Companion 2017

98 Points
“Spectacular colour. A super saturate or black purple with a black heart and very deep black crimson hue showing superb glass cling. Perfumed aromas reveal lifted top notes of violets and blackberry followed by some dark plum, liquorice and confectionary. The palate is an explosive flavour experience framed by perfectly integrated, silky smooth tannins. A Profound Barossa Shiraz”.
Nick Wine Merchants, Vintage Direct newsletter, August 2010

95 Points
“If this wine had the word Penfolds on the front label it would be sold at three times the price. If you like Barossa shiraz, Kalleske Greenock Shiraz should sit in the centre of your sights. Another stunner under this label. So smooth, so rich, so grunty, so substantial. It’s a wine of warm, inky depths and long, fruit-drenched tannin. Vanilla cream, blackberry, saturated plums and cloves. A mouth-filling red, done terrifically well”.
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, October 7 2016

Excellent Classification: Langton’s Classification of Australian Wine
“The family of first-generation settler Johann Georg Kalleske Shiraz established a mixed farm at Greenock in 1853… The substantial, 120-acre vineyard, organic and biodynamic, with an average vine age of 50 years, is now regarded as one of the region’s great ‘grower’ vineyards. It has been a key source for many extraordinary Australian wines, including Penfolds Grange… The ‘ancestor vines’ (aged 125+ years) are hand-pruned and hand-harvested…The rich and voluminous Johann Georg Shiraz is a classic Barossa style with dark berry and dark chocolate aromas and flavours, dense chocolaty tannins and underlying mocha oak”.

“THIS is the flagship of the Kalleske family’s Barossa Valley operation and it’s a feast of a red that weighs in at 14.5 per cent alcohol. It is inky purple and has scents of cassis, bay leaf and dried cranberries. Lush, ripe black plum flavour rolls onto the front of the palate and blackcurrant, licorice and peppermint chocolate fruit characters marry with cedary oak on the middle palate. Dusty tannins come through at the finish”.
John Lewis, May 28th 2014

96 Points
“…. the Johann Georg has emerged as one of the Barossa’s most impressive reds. It comes from vines well over a century old that return rich and concentrated fruit flavours. There is a mix of berry and plum fruit that is enhanced by meaty and earthy characters, plus a touch of spice. Although having plenty of grunt, it retains softness and elegance. The tannins are fine and integrated, with the oak complementing the fruit and building complexity. A long-lasting finish completes a top-class package…”
Mike Burnett, Launceston Examiner, April 15th 2013

James Halliday’s 20 Great Reds
“From a single block of vines planted in 1875, and made in a very small quantity… It is very complex and intense, yet little more than medium-bodied, having a tapestry of aromas and flavours similar to Eduard, with great length. How great will the ‘10 be?”
James Halliday, Australian Wine Companion 2013

Eduard Shiraz

Eduard is sourced from three vineyard blocks on the Kalleske property that were planted between 1905 and 1960. Vines are dry grown and produce low yields. It is named after Karl Heinrich ‘Eduard’ Kalleske who worked the Kalleske vineyards from 1853 until the 1880s. The old vine Shiraz blocks are open-top fermented, traditionally pressed and matured in new and seasoned hogsheads for two years prior to bottling unfined and unfiltered. Eduard is an intense, powerful and full-bodied wine exhibiting dense classic Barossa old vine Shiraz characters. Inky black fruit flavours abound together with harmonized tannins, subtle oak complexity a sturdy structure and great length. Eduard is a sophisticated wine of the highest calibre and is worthy of cellaring for many years.

Current Vintage Release: 2022

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Old Vine Grenache

Old Vine Grenache is made from the oldest Grenache vineyard on the Kalleske farm, planted in 1935. The grapes are entirely dry-grown ensuring intensely flavoured fruit. Fermentation is warm in open-top fermenters with gentle hand pumpovers twice daily. After basket pressing the wine is matured in seasoned hogsheads prior to bottling. An intense, rich and robust Barossa Grenache with plenty of exotic flavours, a layered palate, harmonious balance and solid structure.

Current Vintage Release: 2023
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Classic Range

Greenock Shiraz

Kalleske Greenock Shiraz is a single vineyard wine sourced from a low yielding block consisting of shallow sandy loam over superb deep red clay providing ideal conditions for Shiraz vines. The wine is made in open-top fermenters and basket pressed and matured in hogsheads for up to two years before being bottled without fining or filtration. It is a powerful wine with intense flavours of dark fruits and toasty oak supported by fine ripe tannins. A wine with a strong backbone and a long finish that will cellar for a long time.

Current Vintage Release: 2023
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Merchant Cabernet Sauvignon

In 1838, merchant and miller, Johann Georg Kalleske migrated from Prussia, establishing a new life in South Australia. Today, seven generations later, descendant and fellow merchant and miller, Kym John Kalleske, farms our diverse Kalleske property established at Greenock in the North-Western Barossa in 1853. Continuing the family tradition, Kym is a miller of hay and a merchant of chaff, lamb and grapes. This Merchant Cabernet Sauvignon is a single vineyard wine that’s been hand pruned and harvested by Kym. Traditional winemaking and maturation in new and seasoned French oak hogsheads has ensured a full-bodied varietal Cabernet Sauvignon displaying classic structure and richness typical of the Kalleske vineyard.

Current Vintage Release: 2023
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Moppa Shiraz

Moppa Shiraz is named after the small district of Moppa, just North of Greenock, where the Kalleske farm and vineyard was established in 1853. Sourced entirely from our Kalleske Moppa vineyard, a trace of Viognier and Petit Verdot has been added to this Shiraz giving it a contemporary edge. The palate is rich and flavoursome. The tannin profile is superb, fine grained but fleshy adding texture and definition. Well structured, this is a complex and well balanced wine with fruit at the fore but background oak in support. Generous in flavour, it’s completed by a very lengthy finish. Moppa is an expressive Shiraz that can be enjoyed now or will cellar well in the medium to long term.

Current Vintage Release: 2023
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Clarry’s GSM

Clarry’s is a blend of Grenache, Shiraz and Mataro with old vine Grenache from the 1940s and 1960s. The wine is fermented in open-top fermenters and basket pressed. To preserve the superb fresh fruit flavours of the wine, it is only aged in very old oak hogsheads and only for a limited time of 3-4 months. Clarry’s is soft and fruit-driven with flavours of raspberry, perfume, clove and spice. It is mouth watering with a muscular structure and great length.

Current Vintage Release: 2024
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Divergent Range

Congruous Chenin Blanc & Semillon

Congruous: marked or enhanced by harmonious agreement among constituent elements; appropriate or fitting.
Congruous Chenin Blanc & Semillon… the use of constituent winemaking techniques to create a textural wine of fitting agreement.
 

Current Vintage Release: 2024
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Plenarius Viognier

An intriguing but inviting bronze amber colour. The aromatics abound. There is honey, glace fruit, ginger, apricot, dried fig, spice and a touch of hops. Very captivating. The palate is medium-full bodied. Flavours are intense. The texture is sublime, a multiple of layers and diverse but complementary mouthfeels. There is a touch of inviting oily roundness that is checked by lightly chalky tannin and natural citrusy acid adding freshness. The dry finish is lingering and clean, inviting another sip sooner rather than later. A complex mesh of aromas, flavours and textures providing a provocative and enchanting drink.

Ingredients: 100% certified biodynamic grapes. single vineyard Viognier grapes wild fermented on skins for 9 days. matured in hogsheads for 11 months. bottled unfined & unfiltered. naturally cloudy. naturally amber in colour. no added sulphites.

Current Vintage Release: 2024
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Parallax Grenache

Grenache is one of the most widely planted red wine grape varieties in the world. It is typically harvested late in the season when it is fully ripe to display gorgeous rich sweet red fruit characters and soft supple tannins with a generous and supple mouthfeel. But when harvested early in the season a divergent and equally impressive wine can result. Parallax Grenache is picked 2-3 weeks earlier than normal and combined with fermentation on stalks and minimal maturation has resulted in an admirably divergent wine compared to the norm from this variety, showing the versatility of Grenache.

Current Vintage Release: 2024

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Zeitgeist Shiraz

100% certified biodynamic grapes. Kalleske shiraz grapes, multiple blocks. wild fermented on skins for 7-10 days. no maturation. early vintage bottled. naturally primal in colour, aroma and flavour. no added sulphites. Primal characters. Capturing the spirit & character of the vintage. Unoaked.

Current Vintage Release: 2024
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CCCLXV Durif

Durif is a naturally dark, intense, tannic variety.  When made in the ‘traditional’ way of 7-14 days on skins followed by maturation in oak barrel it delivers a superb immensely full-bodied drink that is often described as ‘Shiraz on steroids’.  CCCLXV Durif 365 takes this a step further.  By leaving the wine on skins for an entire year and not maturing it in any oak, the result is an even more concentrated, powerful and thick inky wine.  It proclaims all that Durif has to give, allowing the flavour, colour and tannin generosity of the skins to entirely egress into the wine.  By bottling after pressing with no barrel maturation, there is no oak intrusion, truly allowing for the Durif grape to shine in its absolute largesse.

CCCLXV: the roman numeral CCCLXV corresponds to Arabic number 365.  CCCLXV = 365.

CCCLXV Durif… a wine of the utmost power displaying the heightened intensity that a protracted 365 days on skins gives to this naturally concentrated and intense variety.

Current Vintage Release: 2024
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Alternative Range

Dodger Tempranillo

Dodger Tempranillo is medium magenta-red in colour. The aroma displays lifted varietal Tempranillo characters of herbs, leather, earth and dried plum. Medium-bodied, the palate exhibits spice, crunchy red fruits and marzipan with subtle oak in support. The natural tannins are prominent adding defined structure and chewiness. There’s a dry lingering finish to complete the wine. Dodger can be enjoyed now or over the next eight years.

Current Vintage Release: 2023
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Fordson Zinfandel

Fordson Zinfandel is rich purple-red in colour. Ascending from the glass are intense and lifted aromas of blackberry jam, jubes, clove spice, Christmas cake and a touch of choc-mint. The juicy palate is packed with succulent berry fruits, suitably restrained with fine but structured tannins. There are subtle oak maturation nuances adding further complexity. Energetic, harmonious and truly varietal, this medium to full bodied wine is very drinkable. Approachable and fruit forward, Fordson Zinfandel can be enjoyed now or over the next five years.

Current Vintage Release: 2023
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Stryker Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot is a late-ripening variety, often it is the last variety to be picked on our Kalleske farm. It is known for its deep purple colour, floral aromatics and high tannins. It is a versatile grape variety that can add depth and complexity to blends or stand alone as a medium-full bodied red wine. Stryker gains its name from the person who assisted the blacksmith in his job, working with iron, using a furnace, anvil, and hammer. As children growing up on the farm, many a cold day was spent by Tony, Kym and Troy, assisting Grandfather Clarry forging points and shears by the warmth of the furnace in the blacksmith shop, all working as a Stryker.

Current Vintage Release: 2022

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Buckboard Durif

The Kalleske vineyard and farm was established at Greenock in the Barossa’s North-West in 1853. For more than a century, the horse drawn ‘buckboard’ was indispensible on the farm. The buckboard buggy transported not only people but hauled produce and supplies to and from the farm, including countless loads of grapes. In the mid 1900s the horse was replaced with a motor and then the buckboard further evolved into a flat bed truck and eventually to the modern ute. Buckboard Durif is a single vineyard wine that’s been grown, vintaged and matured on the Kalleske property. Vigilant grapegrowing, traditional winemaking and maturation in new and seasoned American oak hogsheads has resulted in a powerful, full-bodied wine of great flavour and intensity. Buckboard Durif can be enjoyed now, but best over the next decade.

Current Vintage Release: 2023

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Whites & Rosé Range

Florentine Chenin Blanc

This single vineyard Chenin Blanc, sourced from mature vines on our Kalleske Farm, is a vibrant fruit-driven wine. These old vines are one of the few remaining Chenin Blanc vineyards in the Barossa. Grapes were harvested in the cool of the night and gently pressed for fermentation to provide a naturally varietal yet complex wine. It gains its name from Carolin ‘Florentine’ Kalleske, the first daughter of Johann Georg Kalleske who migrated to Australia from Prussia in 1838. Florentine is a hand crafted wine that has been grown, vintages, and matured on our Kalleske estate at Greenock in the North-Western Barossa.

Current Vintage Release: 2024

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Rosina Rosé

Rosina is an attractive misty-rose pink colour. The aroma is bursting with bright fragrance including crushed raspberry, fresh jasmine flower, musk and strawberry. The palate is fresh and juicy with flavours of watermelon and crunchy cranberry. Crisp and vibrant, a hint of restrained grape sweetness adds harmony. It’s a very lengthy rose’ with a radiant finish.

Current Vintage Release: 2024
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Lorraine Semscato

Lorraine Semscato is grown on the Kalleske family farm at Greenock in the North-Western Barossa Valley. The wine gains its name from Australia’s fastest hand grape-picker, Lorraine Kalleske, who during the 1980s was the fastest hand grape-picker in Australia, winning a total of four National Grape picking Championships, including a three-in-a-row trifecta. As the competition is no longer held, Lorraine retains the title of Australia’s fastest grape-picker. Lorraine has put her skills to good use by hand-harvesting grapes on the Kalleske farm for the past five decades.

Current Vintage Release: 2023
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Elenore Semillon

This single vineyard Semillon is from one of the older surviving Semillon vineyards in the Barossa, planted on the Kalleske property in 1980. Grapes from these old low-yielding vines were native yeast fermented and matured in a trio of vessels; French barrels for oak richness, concrete egg tank adding complexity and stainless tank providing freshness.There is evident oak from barrel maturation adding another layer of flavour. There is further complexity with honey, butter and creamy notes from the natural malolactic fermentation and time on lees. The wine is balanced with bright acidity adding backbone and length. Elenore is a lavishly flavoured old vine Barossa Semillon that can be enjoyed now or over the next five years.

Current Vintage Release: 2022
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Sparkling Range

TKX2 Sparkling Shiraz

We are delighted to release our inaugural Sparkling Shiraz and couldn’t be happier with the result!  Our Kalleske family have grown grapes for 150+ years, with our first wine made in 2002 and released in 2004.  So, twenty years later it is fitting to release our first Sparkling Shiraz.  The name is derived from Tony & Troy Kalleske: TK + TK = TKX2.

Current Vintage Release: 2021
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Fortified

JMK Shiraz VP

JMK Shiraz VP is a luscious fortified Shiraz grown and vintaged on the Kalleske family farm at Greenock in the North-Western Barossa Valley. This wine is dedicated to fifth generation grapegrower, John Malcolm Kalleske (JMK), who has tended the Kalleske family vineyards for more than 50 years. The vineyard for this special wine was hand pruned and harvested by John. JMK Shiraz reflects the dedication of John and the generations before him to the treasured Kalleske vineyard. JMK is a harmonious, soft and opulent wine that can be enjoyed now whilst young and vibrant however will strongly reward patience in the cellar for decades to come.

Current Vintage Release: 2022

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Past Vintages
Tasting Notes:  2022  | 2021 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005
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