News and Events
14 September 6 pm – 11 pm
El Estanco Greenock
Join us for our legendary fortnightly pizza nights. Kick back in our beautiful courtyard or inside in our quirky restaurant, drinking a local brew from our ever changing drinks list and sampling pizzas depending on available produce. Freshness and taste are the key drivers at El Estanco, with everything being made from scratch.
Call and book to avoid disappointment. Take Away Available
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Using certified organic oats locally milled, and fruit and almonds sourced from South Australia, Lee Fleming and John Morgan of Fleming and Ware have been hand making this muesli product in Angaston for 14 years. The range includes Au Naturale, Tutti Frutti, Market Blend, Gluten Free, Gone Nuts, and Winter Warmer. Just another example of a fabulous local artisan product you will find in your breakfast provisions at the cottages.
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Where: Gomersal Wines, Gomersal
When: Saturday 1 September 2018 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Sunday 2 September 2018 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Gather your friends and family to Graze amongst our great indoor and outdoor spaces with stunning views!
Hungry? Start your day with a hearty Barossa Big Breakfast featuring Tanunda’s Thornby’s Shiraz smoked bacon and grain fed beef sausages, eggs, and tomatoes. After something lighter? You’re a candidate for the yoghurt and muesli pot with Gomersal’s very own blend of honey toasted muesli, dried fruit and nuts.
Arriving a little later? You can’t go past the famous Bazza Burger. Yum. Or is cheese more your thing? Not sweet enough? Try the sensational Pannacotta or Apex Bakery Apple Strudel with Jersey Fresh cream.
What’s that sound? It’s the rockin’ tunes of the ever popular Acoustic Highway of course!
Don’t forget! Our full range of Premium, Reserve and Estate wines available including our New Release Fortified Shiraz….
Gomersal Wines’ has your Father’s Day Weekend covered…and look out for our ‘not to be missed’ Fathers Day wine offer!!
Experience for yourself just why Barossa wine and produce is the heart and soul of this weekend.
*Bookings are encouraged for Breakfast, Burgers and Groups to avoid disappointment
8563 3611
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Where: Thorn-Clarke Wines, Angaston
When: Saturday 1 September 2-4 PM
A fun Masterclass like no other! It’s time to put your game face on, accept the challenge, dare your friends and prepare for the ultimate food & wine pairing battle!
Learn from some Masters of the Barossa wine, cheese, meat, fruit & paste trades how to match foods with a selection of Thorn-Clarke wines. Pick their brains for information to gain an “upper hand” & to get “one up” on your competitors. Once you are trained, it gets serious as you use your new found skills to attempt to create the perfect food & wine match. There are no wrong answers, just flavours to savour! The winner will be crowned and the fun continues as the celebrations begin.
It will be a fun, relaxed (sometimes serious & competitive) session, full of great Barossa products and the people who create them. Book now and bring your friends to accept the challenge before it sells out.
Phone: 8564 3036
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Where: Lindsay Wine Estate, Tanunda
When: Friday 31 August 2018 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM
Masked in mystery and draped in decadence, Masquerade at Alchemy offers you a night of eclectic cocktails by Durand Distillery, tantalizing eats by Elli Beer ‘The Eatery’ and fine wine whilst live music fills the air.
A night to indulge and dance with new and old friends. Your ticket includes wine and canapés throughout the evening..
Let the masquerade begin..
Find out more: 8563 3858
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Our pick for the weekend – the Marananga Wine Show public tasting! A great range of wines, an opportunity to meet the winemakers and growers, a truly local experience you will not find anywhere else.
Saturday 25 August
Book online or purchase tickets at the door
$25.00 includes tasting glass, nibbles and wine tasting
Come witness bud burst and shake off the winter blues! Get out and about, enjoy a beautiful spring day together with a guided gin tasting and a long leisurely lunch. That should put a spring in your step!
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We’re singing in the rain, we’re happy again!
It took a while but, we finally received some decent winter rains and are far luckier than other farmers in areas of QLD and NSW who remain in severe drought. We have had 61 mls in one week this August, which was desperately needed. It is critical that the moisture in the soil penetrates to at least a 600 ml depth toward the end of winter, where the vines root zone is located. As the vines begin to come out of dormancy at the start of spring, they send out feeler roots that will detect the amount of moisture present in the soil. If they detect dry conditions, this can have a very detrimental effect on crop loading. So this recent rain was very welcome indeed!
Soil moisture profile checks will be taken and monitored on a weekly basis during the coming months We do this by placing a ‘Neutron Probe’ down various test location tubes in our vineyards to a depth of 1.2m to take readings, which can then be downloaded and studied using moisture monitoring software. This helps us to ensure the right amount of moisture is maintained in the soil structure, and determine when to irrigate and for how long.
As of 13 August the last of the pruning was completed. Due to the previous dry conditions, we are starting our spring tasks early, one of which is mowing the cover crop, this stops the crop competing with the vines for water and mineral nutrients. It also imparts nitrogen into the soil, thus improving soil structure. We expect bud burst to be earlier this year, so from the first week of September we will start to see the vines springing forth with fresh green growth, a particularly beautiful time in the Barossa.
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Why not spoil your Dad this Father’s Day?
Here are some great ideas from two of our favourite wineries, Seppeltsfield and Two Hands.
Seppeltsfield Wines
From memorable wine tour experiences, wine collections sent direct to his door, gift vouchers to allow Dad to decide his own Seppeltsfield treat, or the funniest event tickets in town, we’ve done the hard work for you. Save the gift wrapping headache with a range of wine collections available in pre-prepared gift boxes, including the Seppeltsfield Red Gift Collection.
Two Hands Wines
Most fathers love a great glass of red, accompanied by hearty fare and surrounded by family. Treat your Dad to a truly unique wine experience that the whole family can enjoy. From the hedonistic heights of the Secret Block in the Moppa Hills to their very special Holy Grail vineyard in Seppeltsfield…..take it all in before enjoying a long, lazy lunch back at Cellar Door, where you will taste the pinnacle collection of wines in the Flagship Series.
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Engineering, digging and welding fun!
Our 8.8kw solar installation on the cottages is now complete. This complements our stand alone, off grid, 5kw solar system on our farm shed and office.
Dan and Evan have been busily angle-grinding and welding making the frames for our new signage which is about to be installed in the next week. What do you get when you have a surveyor and an engineer working on a project? Definitely nothing that is under engineered!! Reggie our eccentric Jack Russell who is constantly on the look out for rabbits and kangaroos and loves digging holes, has been keeping an eye on things too!
Just around the corner from the cottages, on Mattiske Road, Hayes Family Wines have opened a new cellar door, well worth a visit and an easy short walk away.
Another very exciting new venue that will be opening it’s doors at the end of this month is Seppeltsfield Rd Distillers. Already winning accolades for their outstanding gins, you can be one of the first to visit their stunning tasting room with a guided gin tasting experience included in our soon to be released Spring Fling Package. Stay tuned, we will let you know when our Spring Fling package is released. In the meantime, as winter comes to an end, why not grab some of our last remaining availability towards the end of this month and book our winter sale and save $100.
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