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Our thank you to the independent retailers that have helped us get to where we are today, this blend of Shiraz and Mataro has won a loyal legion of fans who love its expressive, savoury Barossa goodness.

It has cleaned up at the last couple of Barossa Wine Shows also, picking up the Cooperages 1912 trophy the last two years on the trot and the inaugural 2009 release nabbed the 'Best Value Red Wine in Australia" in Nick Stock's Good Wine Guide.

I reckon we might be onto something?

Blend: Shiraz 60%, Mataro 40%

Expressive dark fruits on the nose with dark plum, cherry, blackberry and a splash of mulberry. There are hints of Barossa earth, exotic spice, white pepper, roast meats, soy sauce and licorice along with lighter shades of spiced, seasoned oak. Medium-bodied in the mouth with plenty of texture and savoury verve to please the most fickle wine-lover. Dark plum, blackberry and black cherry provide the fruit flavours supported by a swathe of exotic spice, licorice, beef consomme, dried flowers, white pepper, dark chocolate, tobacco leaf and rich Barossa earth. The wine displays plenty of energy thanks to a vibrant line of acidity and a raft of ripe, sandy tannin provides ample structure on the lingering finish.

This rambunctious wine pays homage to the Teusner gang's originality. It's a wine style fashioned only by the quality of the old vine fruit and the style of wine the buys love to drink themselves. A great follow up on the previous year, the new release Indepenent is again sourced from low yielding, ancient vines in the Northern Barossa - Ebenezer, Kalimna and Moppa. As always the winemaking is hands off and the fruit is allowed to tell its own story. The result is a brooding, complex wine dripping in dark, aromatic, spicy fruit that sings of the earth from where it came, as well as the toil of those who tended the vines. The 2011 Indy over delivers on every front.