'The Power of the Place' - An Exhibition of Landscape Paintings Presented at Linfield Road Wines by Red Opus Art Space'
We are excited to announce that we have teamed up with the fantastic Adelaide gallery 'Red Opus Art Space', who have put together an exclusive exhibition of abstract and impressionistic landscapes which are now on show in the Cellar Door.
This exhibition brings together work by a number of artists working in different mediums and styles. They are united in that each work relates to the landscape and converys something of the artists response to the natural world, both as it is experiences and imagined, A number of the artists represented have strong associations with the local landscape as previous dwellers in the Adelaide Hills near Williamstown.
The artists include Kathleen Munn, who is a past winner of the prestigious Heysen Prize, and Barbara Flaun, whose stunning work 'The Spirit of the Place' was a finalist in this years Heysen Prize.
The Cellar Door is open 10am - 5pm, 7 days a week (except Xmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day), so call in and check out the striking artwork on display over the holiday period!
http://www.redopusartspace.com.au/
Top Accolade for 'The Stubborn Patriarch' 2005 Shiraz!
We found out this week that our 2005 Stubborn Patriarch Shiraz has been selected as one of the 'Top 50 Wines' in this years Visy 2009 Great Australian Shiraz Challenge. Even better is that this year the Challenge saw a record amount of entries, with our Shiraz being chosen out of a group of 422 Shiraz's from across Australia!
We have still have a limited amount available from the cellar door, or give us a call to secure some on 8524 7355.
Recipes from the Cellar Door Kitchen
I have had so many requests for the recipes that we use for our events, that we have decided that we need a Recipe File. So keep an eye on our web page and as soon as Staci gets back from her travels, we hope to have it up and running for you. And if you are looking for a web presence, contact Staci
staciwilsondesign@gmail.com
16th October Friday Unwind 5:00 to 7:30 pm
This was our second Friday Unwind with wine and cheese, live music and a chance to see the week out with friends on the verandah. We had a capacity crowd by 6:00 pm and the cheese and fruit platters were flying out the kitchen.
The band were absolutely amazing - if you haven't heard Very Jane around the traps in the Barossa, make the effort, they are superb. Thanks Vicky and Jamie for your music and keeping the crowd going! We hope to get them back at Linfield in the new year.
11th October Seafood Sunday
What an amazing day - the release of our Dear Nellie range with a four course lunch. From crab terrines to oysters to King George whiting to citrus pie, it was certainly a feast!
The day booked out in record time and people are asking when is the next seafood day!
Huge thanks to Joe Ahern who played his acoustic sets throughout the afternoon with his vast repertoire. (Just need to get a speaker rigged up in the kitchen for the cooks)
The front of house staff of Daniel and Staci made looking after a crowd look easy and Talitha once again excelled at table service and keeping the cooks in order and Jocelyn's citrus tart scored 11/10.
It was fantastic to see a crowd talking, laughing and eating for four hours. Thank you to all of you who came along and enjoyed the afternoon at Linfield.
Our next event is our Family Picnic Day on November 15th. See the Cellar Door News for more detail.
19th October 2009
It's a stunning day here at Linfield Road and I took the opportunity to wander down and take some photos of the vineyard in full budburst.
19th September 2009
Click here to watch Linfield Road Wines on Channel 7's Discover program.
13th September 2009
What a buzz the Burger Day was. Fantastic music by Oliver's Army (Todd and Ryan, two most amazingly talented young guys), appreciative crowd and the burgers were alright too! (Sorry Ross about the beetroot).
Next event, Friday 25th September, wine and cheese from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm, with live acoustic music by well known local Joe Ahern to see the last Friday in September out.
10th September 2009
Daniel is back from a whirlwind tour of China & Singapore promoting the Linfield brand and some amazing experiences and even a few words of Chinese. The pictures will be up on the cellar door screen soon (well some of them).
9th September 2009
I have just finished a webinar with ABN which was really inspiring - a fantastic network of opportunities, knowledge and experience for business women. Valerie Koo, the presenter was awesome. If you want to know more, email me at the Cellar Door and I will give you the details to join. Deb
4th September 2009
Just had a visitor from WA who is researching her family history call into the cellar door on seeing the name, Linfield Road Wines. Her family lived at the Linfield property at the end of the dirt road that borders our vineyard and was known unofficially as the "Linfield Road" - the road to the Linfield property!
We named our wine label after this road, and a reasonable amount of research into the local history of the area, so we were chuffed to talk to someone who could fill in a few gaps and confirm what we knew. Deb
29th August 2009
A Wrap Up on the 3 + 3 Sunday, held on August 16th.
Our inaugural Linfield Road Wines’ Three Cabernets and Three Curries Sunday held recently was a real buzz and it seems set as an annual event on the 3rd Sunday in August!
The sleepless nights worrying about numbers, food quantities, shopping, preparing, cooking and most importantly bringing it all together on the day were forgotten as soon as the first table filled.
A great crowd laughed, chatted and light-heartedly stirred the table staff a little while literally licking the bowls clean to the sound of Ric and his guitarist (apologies, it is hard to catch someone’s name when you have your skates on.)
At front of house, Daniel and Honey took everyone through a vertical tasting of The Black Hammer before our guests settled down with a bottle of their favourite Linfield for lunch. The popularity of our fantastic wines kept these two Linfield warriors busy all afternoon.
I pondered afterwards about what makes an event special? The answer was simple – the people! (OK – and Linfield wines!)
• Jocelyn, who baked the amazingly yummy mini lemon meringues and cup cakes that had many wanting seconds.
• The warm smile of one of our regular weekend visitors at Linfield, who has a twinkle in her eye, a keen sense of humour and knows a good wine!
• The lovely but quiet Talitha who was a gem in the kitchen and with table service.
• The cheeky fun character by the alfresco doors – you know who you are – disappointed that my lemon tree is not a real success but advocates that for a small payment, he and a few mates have the answer to get it growing and producing.
• The musicians who had us humming as we worked away.
• The orderly chaos in the kitchen, (it isn’t big and with three people buzzing around; don’t mess with Steve when he is in charge of three curries and 3 kilos of rice! But we gave him 10 out 10 on the day!
And there were so many more people things throughout the day that created the atmosphere and the friendliness. A huge thank you to everyone for attending. We look forward to seeing you at our next event - Burger and Blend Sunday Sept 13th. ph 85247 355
August 2009
Linfield Road Wines updated Wine in Williamstown Web presence.
We have had so many positive responses to our new web page. Thank you for taking the time to contact us. It does look great and it reflects the brief (that seems to get lost in translation in the web creative world sometimes) that we gave. You have told us that it is easy to navigate, easy to view, is well laid out and tells the story.
It is not finished yet - we have a few more pages and information areas to add and our e- newsletter will soon be up and running.
Thank you so much to our webmaster and creative guru, Staci, for her willingness to communicate with us and develop the changes that we needed.
Send her an email at staciwilsondesign@gmail.com for help with / construction of your website.
23rd July 2009
Barossa Comes to Brisbane
Linfield goes to Brisbane with our single vineyard wines for this exciting tasting of wines from a huge range of small super premium Barossa wineries. Many wineries will be at the tasting, and it promises to be a great night with some amazing wines.
Make sure you book soon to have a look at the following wines from our range:
The Stubborn Patriarch 2005 Shiraz
The Black Hammer 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon
The Slab Hut 2005 Merlot / Shiraz / Cabernet Sauvignon
The Monarch 2006 Merlot
The Steam Maker 2008 Riesling
Ratafia Riesling 2008 Dessert Wine
Look forward to seeing you there!
Cheers, Daniel Wilson
29th June 2009
As part of an upcoming feature on Williamstown, The Discover crew from Channel Seven called in to film at Linfield Road on Saturday. After spending a busy morning practising our best ''acting natural'' poses, we had a great time showing presenter Kelly Golding around Linfield Cottage and the cellar door, before sitting down to enjoy one of our gourmet platters on the verandah with the crew.
I''ll post the screening date on here when it''s confirmed, but the segment should be going to air in the next few months.
25th June 2009
Two gorgeous new wines from Linfield Road are now available:....and they both come with hand drawn stick figures!
''The Man About Town'' 2006 Aged White Tawny is the newest addition to the Linfield Road single vineyard range. Handmade entirely from Chardonnay grapes sourced from our Southern Barossa family vineyard, it''s the perfect fortified wine to warm up with after a cold winters day. Tasting Note: Golden Amber in colour, the nose displays hints of honey and ripe melon. Rich characters of carmelized apricots and peaches coat the mouth, with a long luscious finish.The wine is named after Thomas Wilson, who arrived in Adelaide from England with his young family on July 27th 1838. After settling in, Thomas wasted no time becoming involved in the affairs of the young city, finding himself elected the 2nd Mayor of Adelaide in 1842 while lecturing on art and engraving, establishing a law firm, acting as the first editor for ''The Adelaide'' magazine and writing a great deal of very lengthy poetry.
In 1841, ''The South Australian'' Magazine published what can only be described as an extraordinarily descriptive quote about Thomas:
''No man seems to possess more of the attribute of ubiquity than Mr Wilson. Visit whatever part of Adelaide you may, during the hours of business, there you are sure to meet with him... he is blessed with a pair of such singularly active legs, as seemingly to annihilate distance and space, his presence in chambers, in the council room, in his own offices, and at the extremities of the city being apparently coeval in point of time''.
Annihilating distance and space... if only that trait had passed on down through the generations. It just sounds so useful! The wine has been maturing in oak since 2006, and has developed stunning color and flavour. Made from a single variety, sourced from a single vineyard, in one single vintage and with only 88 dozen produced. Available from the Cellar Door or Mail Order for $15 a bottle. P: (08) 8524 7355.
The Ratafia 2008 Riesling is the other new addition to the range, a delicious single vineyard dessert wine that is on the mellow side of sweet - perfect with a mango sorbet and tropical fruit salad. We have only produced a tiny 170 dozen, so make sure you call into the Cellar Door soon, or give us a call - would love to hear from you.
Tasting Note: ''Made from Riesling pressings this delicious sweet wine is partially fermented before being fortified with a neutral spirit. Serve chilled and enjoy the delightful pinapple and melon flavours. A wonderful dessert wine.''
The Ratafia is made from the Riesling pressings of our 2008 Riesling, and spent 9 months in French oak before bottling. Packaged in stunning 375ml bottles $22 at Cellar Door or Mail Order. P: (08) 8524 7355
13th October 2008
Spring is underway, as budburst brings next years crop to life. Very quickly the vineyard is alive with colour and activity, which is always in stark contrast to the dormant vines we've been pruning only a few weeks before.
With pruning finished and snips retired to the back of the workshop, we've focused our combined attentions on the cellar door, spending the October long weekend furiously working away with the help of good friends Matty and Chelsea. The polished concrete flooring looks fantastic, the redgum bar has been installed, the interior painted, and the landscaping is... well we're almost there.
18th August 2008
With another cold Barossa Valley winter coming to a close, we are now well over halfway through the pruning. Once again Grandpa, better known as Arnold, unless this is Stacey reading, has been out there everyday, despite the fact that he's recently turned 86 years old. It is with considerable guilt that I head over to his place for a stout after a day when I've been cooped up in the office!
If you can get past the fact that its 7 degrees and pouring down with rain, pruning is surely one of the most peaceful tasks going. We usually have two people working on either side of the row here, and I always find it amazing how an hour or two passes without a word being spoken before the conversation picks up as if it never stopped.
The cellar door construction is moving along at a rapid pace, with the Oregon wood verandah now up and the concrete floor being polished as I write this (and no, I'm not hiding). Looking out over the vineyard, with the first rows of gnarled Grenache in the foreground, it's the perfect location for a cellar door and we are currently on track to be open in late October. I'll have more updates as it progresses along in the upcoming weeks.
Finally, in a publicity coup tempered only by the fact her last name hasn't been Wilson for 65 years, Grandpa's sister Ivy has become a radio star at 91 years of age! Tune into http://www.abc.net.au/adelaide/radio/ every Wednesday at around 2.30pm to hear her talk to Carole Whitlock about everything from life on the farm to motorbike racing.
Daniel Wilson
