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GROSSET WINES Clare Valley, South Australia "Grosset Wines is an independent privately owned winery set in the Clare Valley producing just six highly regarded premium wines each vintage.
Grosset Wines� annual production is approximately 9,500 cases (dozen). Seven people are employed in the winemaking and operation of the 20 hectares of estate vineyards.
Established in 1981 by Jeffrey Grosset in the historic township of Auburn at the southern tip of the Clare Valley 100 kilometres north of Adelaide, the Winery is stylish but functional and reflects the attention to detail that extends to the Grosset estate-owned Clare Valley vineyards and to the winemaking.
Leading Australian wine authority James Halliday wrote in 2008 of the range of six Grosset wines, 'these are all benchmarks'. Stuart Pigott, a world authority on riesling, wrote after a visit to Grosset Wines that Grosset's wines, are interfused not only with that sense of place and season, but with something he calls �the spirit of Jeff Grosset', a phenomenon that occurs by a means that �science has yet to explain'. Jeffrey Grosset's immensely disciplined approach to winemaking involves meticulous attention at every stage, from the choice of the very earth itself, as in his selection of the famous windswept site for the Gaia, to the fine tuning during pressing and fermentation. All of which helps you to understand how thoroughly deserved have been his many accolades, from Jeffrey's being voted the Inaugural Wine Magazine Australian Winemaker of the Year and International Riesling Winemaker of the Year at the Riesling Summit II, Hamburg, both in 1998 to being included as one of the world�s Top Ten White Winemakers in Decanter, UK (2006) and one of the fifty most influential winemakers in Wine and Spirits, USA (2005). " |
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