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Old Vine Garden Wines
Langmeil Winery’s commitment, is not only shown in our dedication to the resurrection of our own Old Vine Gardens, but also visible in our support to our loyal growers who are custodians to some very special parcels of Barossa’s history. Site specific characteristics and micro-climates assist in creating the uniqueness of Barossa’s Old Vine Gardens and are highlighted in single vineyard wines. Regional Barossa blends from these old gardens provide the winemaking team a cross section of developed flavour profiles to showcase.
Techniques such as only gently destemming the hand harvested fruit
rather than crushing, open fermentation and basket pressing, with
completely no fining or filtration, Paul and team ensure the full
potential of the fruit is captured with old fashioned minimal handling
but labour intensive techniques.
This assortment of wines is our personal expression of the best of our Old Vine Garden fruit from our beloved Barossa, and we trust that you take pleasure in tasting, drinking and cellaring them as we do growing and making them.
2008 'The Freedom' 1843 Shiraz
Langmeil’s original vineyard, the Freedom, was planted in 1843 and survives to this day. Planted by our Lutheran forebears who were escaping religious persecution and war in Prussia, just seven years after the state of South Australia was colonised. They came to their new homeland, from ‘Persecution to Freedom’, to worship and find peace in our beloved Barossa. The Freedom is Langmeil’s first and foremost vineyard. A small block of Shiraz planted by Christian Auricht and his family in 1843, not only survive, but thrive on the banks of the North Para River, adjacent to our winery. Since the Bitter and Lindner families re-established the abandoned vineyards and winery in 1996, we have vinified the Freedom 1843 separately from other Shiraz at Langmeil. These thick trunked, dry grown, low yielding, gap toothed old vines, which we believe to be the oldest surviving Shiraz in Australia, are guided through the cellars in their 164th vintage by fifth generation family winemaker, Paul Lindner.
