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  • Weather

    18° C Few clouds
  • Time

    11:57 AM
  • Wine average?

    96 Tb
  • Country Ranking?

    3
  • Region Ranking?

    3
  • Popularity ranking?

    239

History

Emmanuelle and Toby Bekkers have forged an impressive mark on the McLaren Vale landscape through their highly skilled vineyarding and winemaking. Rather than going down the alternative grape variety route, they have harnessed the region’s magnificent heritage to build a reputation for their Bekkers brand. Their attention to detail, especially during the maturation phase, brings an extra resonance to the wines. This masterful Stradivarius-like ...

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Vineyards

The Bekkers winemaking story starts with exceptional attention to detail in the vineyard. It is a showcase for Toby’s viticultural abilities and a philosophy of farming which views the vineyard through a prism of ecology, not chemistry.

This philosophy extends equally to the cellar where Emmanuelle’s precision is the perfect foil to Toby’s unfettered, open-minded approach to winemaking.

Patience and gentle practices bring to life wines t...

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Inside information

McLaren Vale means a lot to Toby Bekkers. It’s where he met his winemaker wife, Emmanuelle, in one of the region’s oldest wineries more than 20 years ago. Today it’s where they live with their family and make their living growing grapes and crafting premium wines.

“We’ve been in this region for a long time, and I worked out very quickly that it was a great place to grow grapes,” says Toby. “The beautiful thing about McLaren Vale is its dive...

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