Schwarz Wine Company

The Dust Kicker range are blended wines of premium Barossa varieties.
It is a vinous tribute to my work boots, as we spend many hot summer days walking the rows of Barossa Vineyards to select the perfect parcels of fruit to make this wine.

The Dust Kicker GSM 2010

2010 in the Barossa ticked all the boxes with the extended, cool growing season working wonders on the Grenache, Shiraz and Mataro grapes that make their way into our Dust Kicker GSM.We source the grapes for this particular blend from many locations in the Barossa, each individual parcel of fruit adding its own particular characters to the finished wine where the result is larger than the sum of its parts.

Grenache for its perfume and spice, Shiraz for power and bass-notes and Mataro for its savoury structure and texture, together they seem to seamlessly mesh together as a complete blend. Perfect with light meat dishes or indeed by itself.

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The Dust Kicker Shiraz 2010

The Dust Kicker Shiraz is sourced from various old-vine vineyards across the Barossa. Each individual parcel is vinified separately in small ferments before aging in seasoned oak barrels before blending.

2010 was an excellent vintage for us here in the Barossa. We were spared any disease issues or heat events and the low, slow ripening conditions resulted in top-notch fruit with great varietal definition and great balance.

Earthy, mouth-filling and the essence of the Barossa, youll find the Dust Kicker Shiraz will serve you well with food at the dinner table and with the company of good friends for many years to come.

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2012 The Dust Kicker Rose

The 2012 vintage in the Barossa was a ripper and the blend for this years The Dust Kicker Ros is 60% Grenache and 40% Mataro.

The fruit is harvested and crushed without de-stemming before macerating for 24 hours. Following maceration we press and settle overnight before wild fermentation using natural yeast in tank on light lees. Post fermentation the wine stays in tank with a weekly stirring of the lees before bottling.

A perfect wine to enjoy with good food and good friends on a late afternoon.

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2012 The Dust Kicker Chenin Blanc

Time, as we all know, flies and 2012 sees us up to the third release of our The Dust Kicker Chenin Blanc. I reckon its our best to date from a very strong Barossa vintage and just perfect drinking as the weather warms up.

After harvesting, half of the fruit is pressed immediately without de-stemming and the remainder is left to macerate for 6 hours before we send it to the press. The idea behind the maceration is to build increased texture and structure into the wine . We then ferment the wine using natural yeast and after fermentation is completed, half of the wine goes to stainless steel, and half to barrel until release.

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Nitschke Block Shiraz2010

The Nitschke Road Shiraz block was planted by my mother and father in 1968 in Bethany near the base of the Eastern Barossa Range. The vineyard is still pruned and picked by hand and the soils of loam over brown and red clays results in a wine of considerable concentration and drive.

Rich, opulent fruit is the reoccurring theme with this vineyard and it always seems to show great balance and texture year in, year out.

Thiele Road Grenache 2010

Planted in 1946, our family Grenache block on Thiele Road in Bethany remains one of my favourite blocks. The gnarled, old vines continue to produce fantastic fruit and the quality out of the 2010 vintage was evident as soon as I tasted the fruit in the vineyard.

We are very lucky in the Barossa to have some of the oldest Grenache vines in the world and I sometimes think that we tend to unappreciated the variety. After all, it is one of the most versatile wines around when it comes to matching with food and when the temperatures increase outside, dont be afraid to pop it into the fridge for a while to chill down and provide a refreshing red for you and your friends.

2010 The Schiller Shiraz

The Schiller Shiraz is a wine not only rich in flavour but rich in history too.

The fruit sourced for this wine comes from the sixth generation Schiller Family vineyard at Hallett Valley in the Barossa. After a last minute reprieve from the bulldozers, the 400 Shiraz vines planted by Carl August Otto Schiller in the 1880s are something to be treasured. As you cradle a glass of this Shiraz, cast a thought to the generations of pruners and pickers that have trod these rows over the last 130 years and raise a toast in their honour.