In this pictorial we follow the progress of the 2006 vintage of Bush Vine Mataro which provides much of the fruit for two of our icons wines - the Bull's Blood and the Heinrich. more...
At Rolf Binder's Veritas Winery we strive to produce a range of quality wines with distinctive character. Our pursuit of excellence means choosing only the most suitable fruit and handling it in the winery in small batches. The results you can taste for yourself in our tasting room - but not all of the wines are available all of the time.
A consequence of constantly seeking to make great wine is limited production. Maintaining high standards means the supply of wines at the top of our wine hierarchy is much less than the demand. So while we would love each and every visitor to share the pleasure of everything we make that is just not possible.
What we do strive to ensure is that at any one time at least one of our premium reds and whites is available for tasting. You can find our list of wines with their normal release times at Our Wine Hierarchy.
A lovely family came to visit our Tasting Room today. Rick and Suzanne (left) came from Lindsay, Ontario, to visit their daughter Heidi and Heidi's husband, Nik (centre) in Adelaide. With them they brought Suzanne's brother Fenton, and his wife Jennie, from Kingston, Ontario (right).
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We met Ann and Ian from Adelaide yesterday, discovering the Valley on the Barossa Cheese and Wine Trail. With them they brought their good friends, Hester and Chris from South Africa.
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Visitors to our Tasting Room in the beautiful Barossa Valley will notice some interesting artworks on the walls. We run our Tasting Room as an Art Exhibition Space, giving local South Australian artists a chance to show off their new creations, or blow the dust off some of their older pieces. This also gives our Tasting Room a fresh look and atmosphere every month.
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Mike and Diane from Evergreen Colorado popped into our Tasting Room today, armed with the latest edition of American wine critic, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate.
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We receive a lot of return visitors to our Tasting Room so, other than having new and interesting wines that are different to try, we also change the art on the walls.
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A letter came to me via e-mail on Sunday, and I wanted to share it with all of you...
Dear Rolf,
We felt moved to get in touch. For 12 years the comment that you made whilst you were having dinner with my wife and I in Tanunda has rung in our ears every time we opened a bottle of your wine.
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The Barossa Grape and Wine Tourism Association held their inaugural event 'Barossa At Home' this weekend. Forty four Barossa Wineries held various events. This ranged from the winemaker serving in the Tasting Room and being available to meet people and answer their questions, through to intimate dinners at the winemaker's home.
Rolf Binder decided to hold a Masterclass, showing the consistency of our style and focusing on three classic Barossans - the Shiraz, the Mataro, and the Grenache. These three varieties make up our Heinrich blend, taking the sweet luscious fruit of the Shiraz, the spicy, leathery earthiness of the Mataro, and the sweet confectionary and spice from the Grenache, to make up one of our more popular wines.
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We see a lot of Canadian fans of Rolf Binder Wines in our Tasting Room.
Enzo, Linda, Karen, Anne and Mike come from Port Coquitlam, a river port town east of Vancouver in British Colombia.
Known by the locals as "PoCo", the town sits at the confluence of the Fraser River and the Pitt River. The Coquitlam River borders it on the west, and is where the world revered Canadian Salmon come to spawn. Coquitlam is an indigenous Canadian word for "Little Red Fish", obviously referring to the salmon.
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A couple of serious foodies, or "Gastronauts" as we like to call them, dropped by our Tasting Room on Saturday, recommended by others who take their food and wine very seriously.
Andrea and Elizabeth come from Canada, and together operate Andrea's food business Quince.
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Heather, David and Chris popped into our Tasting Room this week for a splash of wine.
Heather (on the left) and Chris (on the right) used to be nursing sisters together, and have reunited for the holidays. David in the middle is Chris' husband, and together the three of them were riotously funny with their many stories of days gone by.
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The Cheese and Wine Trail Bag made yet another appearance in the Tasting Room today.
Chris and Lydea, hedonists from Melbourne's beautiful Dandenong Ranges, are visiting the Barossa Valley this week, tasting and treating themselves to all the wonderful food and wines here on offer.
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Buoyed by the great success of our regular Friday Night Wood Oven Pizzas that we ran during daylight saving last season, we have started them up again.
The long table along the verandah overlooking the beautiful Barossa Valley and Barossa Ranges has been full every week.
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We change our artworks in the Tasting Room every month, giving local artists "a go", and giving us a change in workspace that keeps us all motivated and fresh.
This month we are exhibiting a collection of works by renowned Adelaide artist, Christine Gordon.
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While in the Tasting Room I met two very lovely people from Townsville - Julie Carr & John Preston.
John had just recently left the air force after serving in Kuwait and many other very interesting (although unsafe) destinations across the world. A very stressful job on a good day. So while contemplating their future John & Julie decide to have a holiday (with no children) and visit the very beautiful Barossa Valley.
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We get a lot of groups coming through the Barossa Valley, many of them to celebrate birthdays or anniversaries, or other events. Today we had a visit from six Lederhosen-ed Lads celebrating their friend Jan's bucks party. From left to right we have Anthony, Stephen, Ben, Joseph and Jan, with Reinhard sitting in front. And they haven't come from far-off nineteenth century Germany, but hour away Adelaide.
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We welcomed four lovely ladies from Geelong into our Tasting Room today. Chris, Bec, Marion and Joyce are visiting the Barossa Valley for a few days, leaving their (very jealous) husbands at home.
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In May 2006 Sarah Milosevic, was awarded a Rotary exchange to America to study their accounting practices. During her visit she met Julie and Brady Krebs whilst in Cleveland Ohio. A great friendship was struck and now Julie and Brady have ventured to Australia.
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Talented Adelaide artist, Zoe Paull, has brought her amazing works into our Tasting Room to exhibit for the month of August.
From today, Zoe's works will hang upon our lovely butter yellow walls, leaping out with colour and texture in a series of amazing and fantastic pieces of art.
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We had a group of lovely people visit our Tasting Room in the Barossa Valley from Sydney during the Easter long weekend. The Bulls Blood, always a favourite, really impressed them. But it was the little taste of Candied Balsamic Vinegar that truly inspired them to write us a letter.
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Recent visitors to our Tasting Room in the Barossa Valley had more than interest in the wine. Tiffany brought along her lovely family to visit the namesake of her horse, "Veritas".
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We welcome our visitors from Malaysia this weekend. Winston Ong, Alison Ooi, Agnes Tan and Chong Seng Fook are all friends from Penang, and have heard a lot about Rolf Binder Wines back home in Malaysia.
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Pizza Night is proving to be a great success at Rolf Binder @ Veritas Winery.
Held every Friday evening over Summer, the Pizza Night has been drawing crowds of up to eighty wine loving guests. The table is shared which means so is the conversation and party atmosphere amongst different groups.
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We were visited in our Tasting Room today by a group of Hungarian gents. Zsolt (kneeling at the front) came to settle in Brisbane in 1988. His friends (from left) are Feri, Zoltan, Pali and Peter. Rolf is in the middle in the dark blue shirt. They were impressed with the Hungarian heritage of the Binder family, and had their photo taken in front of the portrait of Rolf Senior, which takes pride of place in our Tasting Room. They were also impressed with the Bulls Blood, the Australian version of the Hungarian Bikaver.
Multi-skilling in any job is an asset, and creates a stronger base in any work team.
There's more to being a winemaker than just converting grapes into liquid pleasure. Our old glasswasher finally gave up the ghost, so Rolf spent a couple of hours on his knees in the Tasting Room installing the new glasswasher. It was a messy, smelly job, and not as glamorous as one would think winemaking would be. Thanks for fitting it though, Rolf. Handwashing was becoming a bit tiresome!
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We have recently renovated our Tasting Room in the Barossa Valley, glamming it up to match the high quality wines Rolf, Christa and the boys produce every year.
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Veritas Winery had a new structural addition built onto the front verandah, adding to the Tuscan-style architecture of the Tasting Room area of our big winery shed. A large wood-fired pizza oven was built by local grape grower Jeff Laycock in a matter of days. If he didn't have to wait for cement to set, it would have been very quick indeed.
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Visitors to our Tasting Room come from all over the globe. Alka and Dinoo visited us from Singapore this week. They flew from Singapore to Sydney and, as soon as they got off the plane, they went straight to the Park Hyatt on Circular Quay, beneath the majestic Sydney Harbour Bridge, and across the water from the grand Sydney Opera House.
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The 2005 Bulls Blood Shiraz Mataro Pressings has been extremely popular this year, and we introduced it to two new fans this week. Alan Peake and his nephew Simon Lavender visited our Cellar Door in the beautiful Barossa Valley where they were treated to a tasting of four of our fine red wines.
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On the third weekend in June, while Rolf and Julie were in Sydney with the Barossa Valley contingent for the Good Food and Wine Show, we had some avid wine lovers come and visit our winery. Coincidentally, they were down from Sydney.
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Matthew and Alexandra Miller travelled from Arizona to the Barossa to spend a couple of days tasting our delicious wares. We have since had the following correspondence from Alexandra.
Dear Julie,
We're going to a wine tasting today here in Arizona where one of the wines is the Halliwell Shiraz/Grenache. We picked this tasting mainly because we'd been to the winery and knew what excellent wines you have.
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Friday the thirteenth proved to be a lucky day for forty guests at Rolf Binder's Bacchanalian Banquet.
On arrival, guests were privileged to try a couple of brand new wines, bottled only the week before. The Tramino Frizzante proved to be popular with its fresh spritz and semi-sweet fruit flavours. This was well matched with a crisp, dry Gewurztraminer, light bodied but packed with full flavours of perfume and spice. Sadly, Australian consumers won't get to try this wine again as it is destined for England's shores.
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Friday the thirteenth proved to be a lucky day for forty guests at Rolf Binder's Bacchanalian Banquet.
On arrival, guests were privileged to try a couple of brand new wines, bottled only the week before. The Tramino Frizzante proved to be popular with its fresh spritz and semi-sweet fruit flavours. This was well matched with a crisp, dry Gewurztraminer, light bodied but packed with full flavours of perfume and spice. Sadly, Australian consumers won't get to try this wine again as it is destined for England's shores.
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In early March we welcomed Monica and Ingemar Bengtson to the cellar and guided them through our range of wines. This is their second visit to Australia, the last time being 1999-2000. Ingemar has retired from an active business career and is now able to pursue a previous passion for wine and food by writing for the Swedish magazine “Mat Och Vanner” or Food and Friends.
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Our new Tasting Room is attracting some very positive responses. Airier and brighter than the dark timber and olive walls of the former design, the "Lolly banana-yellow" walls and the white fittings make the room seem a whole lot bigger.
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We welcomed four old friends to our new tasting room on Monday afternoon.
Ron and Hilda Carr of Tanunda brought in their old friends John and Ellen Smith from Malton in North Yorkshire. The four have known each other since 1951 while growing up in Yorkshire. They hail from coal mining country near Grimley, and all of them have family members who worked in the pits.
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Thank for your hospitality during our recent visit to Rolf Binder as well as your introduction to the range of Rolf Binder wines, all of which my wife and I enjoyed very much.
As you may remember, we bought a bottle of the 2004 Hanisch. We opened it the same night at our hotel. What a fabulous wine! There were tons of blackberry and blackcurrant flavours. With time in the glass, more complex aroma of smoke and floral characters emerges. The finish is extremely long. We hoped we could bring back more to Canada, but we were afraid that all the subsequent travelling under the hot Australian sun will spoil what is meant to be one of the best Shiraz.
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Debra Walters from Melbourne made the pilgrimage to Rolf Binder@Veritas on Saturday after many years of enjoying our wines in Melbourne restaurants. Debra, who was rapt to find Rolf working in the Tasting Room, requested a very amorous photo with the man behind the label.
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We change our artworks in the Tasting Room every month, giving local artists "a go", and giving us a change in workspace that keeps us all motivated and fresh.
Multi-skilling in any job is an asset, and creates a stronger base in any work team.
There's more to being a winemaker than just converting grapes into liquid pleasure. Our old glasswasher finally gave up the ghost, so Rolf spent a couple of hours on his knees in the Tasting Room installing the new glasswasher. It was a messy, smelly job, and not as glamorous as one would think winemaking would be. Thanks for fitting it though, Rolf. Handwashing was becoming a bit tiresome!
Visitors to our Tasting Room come from all over the globe. Alka and Dinoo visited us from Singapore this week. They flew from Singapore to Sydney and, as soon as they got off the plane, they went straight to the Park Hyatt on Circular Quay, beneath the majestic Sydney Harbour Bridge, and across the water from the grand Sydney Opera House.
The 2005 Bulls Blood Shiraz Mataro Pressings has been extremely popular this year, and we introduced it to two new fans this week. Alan Peake and his nephew Simon Lavender visited our Cellar Door in the beautiful Barossa Valley where they were treated to a tasting of four of our fine red wines.
On the third weekend in June, while Rolf and Julie were in Sydney with the Barossa Valley contingent for the Good Food and Wine Show, we had some avid wine lovers come and visit our winery. Coincidentally, they were down from Sydney.
Matthew and Alexandra Miller travelled from Arizona to the Barossa to spend a couple of days tasting our delicious wares. We have since had the following correspondence from Alexandra.
Friday the thirteenth proved to be a lucky day for forty guests at Rolf Binder's Bacchanalian Banquet.
In early March we welcomed Monica and Ingemar Bengtson to the cellar and guided them through our range of wines. This is their second visit to Australia, the last time being 1999-2000. Ingemar has retired from an active business career and is now able to pursue a previous passion for wine and food by writing for the Swedish magazine “Mat Och Vanner” or Food and Friends.
We welcomed four old friends to our new tasting room on Monday afternoon.
"Dear Julie,
Debra Walters from Melbourne made the pilgrimage to Rolf Binder@Veritas on Saturday after many years of enjoying our wines in Melbourne restaurants. Debra, who was rapt to find Rolf working in the Tasting Room, requested a very amorous photo with the man behind the label.