The Growers’ Cut is a special release, cellar door only wine, that pays homage each year to a selected grower whose particular vineyard has best exemplified the season or produced an extraordinary parcel of wine. The grapes produced each year for this wine will be one of the traditional Torbreck and Barossa varieties of Grenache, Shiraz or Mataro.
Torbreck's wine making process includes keeping each individual vineyard parcel separate throughout fermentation and maturation, with blending of vineyards only occurring prior to bottling. At the end of each vintage our winemakers select the winning parcel of wine, which is then kept apart for a limited release single vineyard bottling.
This is a highly sought after prize, and competition between growers is both friendly and fierce. The award is presented at our Annual Growers Dinner, where all Torbreck growers are invited to taste barrel samples of all the individual vineyard wines produced from the most recent vintage.
Tammy and Stuart Schutz are the recipients of the Growers’ Cut Award with their 2022 Stonewell district Shiraz . Planted in 2002 on red clay and ironstone, the wine exhibits black summer fruits and western ridge intensity, and is a worthy winner of the Growers' Cut Prize
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Previous Growers' Cut -
The Grower's Cut 2021 - Maternre Shiraz, Greenock
The Grower's Cut 2020 - Neldner Grenache, Gomersal
The Growers' Cut 2019 - Slade 'Front Block' Shiraz, Greenock
The Growers' Cut 2018 - Helbig, 'Block 3' Shiraz , Marananga
The Growers' Cut 2017 - Limb, 'Patterson's Hill' Vineyard Shiraz , Seppeltsfield
The Growers' Cut 2016 - Hoffmann, 'Track Block' Vineyard Shiraz , Ebenezer
The Growers' Cut 2015 - Hongell 'Block 4' Shiraz, Krondorf
The Growers' Cut 2014 - Schultz 'Primrose Block' Grenache, Kalimna
The Growers' Cut 2013 - Helbig 'Block 2' Shiraz, Marananga