SEPPELTSFIELD LAUNCHES NEW WINE EXPERIENCES ON ROYAL VISIT
The Royals visited Seppeltsfield as part of a single day visit to the Barossa and Adelaide, stopping at the 164 year old winery for a taste of South Australian regional wine, food and art culture. Their Royal Highnesses were welcomed to the Barossa as the first official destination of their Australian visit.
Following a tour of Seppeltsfield’s cooperage and a meet and greet with...
The Seppeltsfield story begins with Joseph Ernst Seppelt, a merchant, who migrated to Australia with his family in 1849, from Silesia, in what is now Poland.
The Seppelt family settled in the Barossa Valley in 1851, and purchased the property now known as Seppeltsfield. The Seppeltsfield area is warm and dry, with only a 500 mm Rainfall, while the soils are heavy and red brown. The Seppelt family vines flourished in this fertile valley and ...
The Seppeltsfield vineyards span over 100 hectares and include plantings of Barossa’s traditional grape varieties Shiraz and Grenache. Small plantings of the traditional European fortified varieties of Touriga (for VP –‘vintage port” style) and Palomino (for the “Sherry” styles) are also within the estate's holdings.Whilst Seppeltsfield's vineyards span broadly across the Western ridge of the Barossa, it is the Great Terraced Vineyard, located...
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