Torbreck Vintners ‘The Laird’ 2021

Please note: These wines are all offered ‘in bond’ and are expected to arrive in the UK in Jan/Feb 2027.

The Laird (formerly Gnadenfrei) Vineyard was first planted in 1958 on a southwest facing slope in the tiny hamlet of Marananga in the Barossa Valley. Torbreck’s first harvest of Shiraz from this highly coveted plot came in 2005.

The 2021 summer growing season was mild, with even and cool daily temperatures throughout. Enhanced by good rains provided during the winter and spring of 2020, the vineyards grew wonderful canopies and developed well-formed grape bunches. As a result of this long flavour development cycle in the vineyard, 2021’s signature is wines of high aromatic lift with densely coloured tints and exceptional balance.

Deep Aubergine with an opaque core. Luxurious and alluring black and blue fruits such as satsuma plum, blackberry, black cherry and cassis fill the bouquet, complimented by savoury notes of olive brine, tar, bay leaf, vanilla pod and black tea. The palate possesses great fruit depth and a degree of elegance, displaying wonderful harmony and posture with firm tight tannins holding the fruit and the structure together, with the typicity of ironstone minerality that is evident from Marananga’s western ridge, showing a ferrous like element that complements the palate. A wine that will live for generations.