2017 Torbreck The Factor Shiraz Barossa Valley Australia

Since 1994, Pete Kight has been a pioneer in the Barossa Valley and has successfully highlighted the world-class quality of Shiraz in the area. Since 2008, the winery has been producing wines from grapes that are 100% grown on the estate. Torbreck has access to unique low-yielding, century-plus old vine vineyards that produce some of the best wines in Australia.

Torbreck wines are neither fined nor filtered and barrel aging varies as needed.

The manager on a highland estate is referred to as The Factor. Many of Torbreck's wine names reference a Scottish heritage. Many of these vineyards were planted in the 19th century and because of South Australia’s far-sighted quarantine policy, were not affected by the phylloxera outbreak that ravaged the vineyards of the world in the 1880s. They survive on their own roots more than a century later as clonal time capsules. The reputation of the Barossa as the preeminent red wine growing region of Australia rests firmly on wines such as this.