Spinifex

5 Star Winery - Halliday Wine Companion
"Winery of the Year" - Penguin Australian Wine Guide

“Pete [Schell] and his partner Magali Gely operate what I think is the best new-wave of small-scale Barossa wine companies to emerge at the beginning of the 21st century… These weren’t big, blockbuster, showy wines designed to impress. They were wines that managed to take the best of the Barossa’s sometimes forgotten varietal traditions and fuse them onto a very European flavour sensibility.” - Max Allen, The Future Makers

"We started Spinifex in 2001 with the opportunity to source some great old vine Mataro growing in deep white drift-sand on the Barossa Valleys’ Western Ridge. Our focus is on making regional wines from the traditional Mediterranean grape varieties that have been grown successfully in Australia for over 150 years - Shiraz, Mataro, Grenache, Cinsault, Carignan, Ugni Blanc, Grenache Gris,  Marsanne and Semillon. We aim to make wines that display signatures of vineyard provenance and vintage, show regional typicity and have a consistent thread of 'house style' that reflects our preferences and experiences with wine. The wines we choose to make are  predominately blends, the synergies derived from blending wines of differing character enhance the subtle complexities, even textures and profound personalities delivered from great old vine vineyards." - Spinifex

  • Spinifex Bete Noir Shiraz 2021

    Spinifex Bete Noir Shiraz 2021

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    94 POINTS! - WINE FRONT

      "Charred meats, blackberries and blueberries, a floral element and fist loads of roasted spice. It’s bold but neat, tannic but not at the expense of the overall flow." - Wine Front   "Inspired by the classically styled Barossa reds...

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  • Spinifex La Maline Shiraz 2021

    Spinifex La Maline Shiraz 2021

    Region: SA- Eden Valley

    JAMES HALLIDAY 97 POINTS!
    WINE FRONT 95 POINTS!

      "Deep aromatics of woody spices – sandalwood, cardamom, mace and pepper – fuse with deeper fresh leather, ink, char and dark chocolate notes.  Fruit aromatics are cool and dark – spiced black cherry and tart blackberry...

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    Current stock: 14

    $78.00
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  • [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Garcon Grenache 2022

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Garcon Grenache 2022

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    SOFT AND ENERGETIC GRENACHE FROM A MASTER OF THE VARIETY

      "Displays delicate and perfumed aromatics of ripe raspberry, cherry,  red currant, rose petal, lily and discrete white pepper and musk notes. Youthful, mid-weight palate, strong red currant, spice and red plum skin flavours. Plum skin...

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  • [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Luxe Rose 2021

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Luxe Rose 2021

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    2023 ROSE OF THE YEAR - HALLIDAY WINE COMPANION

      "Lots going on here with silky, elegant feel all up. Delivers light sour cherry, pomegranate juice scents and flavours with some flinty, wet slate minerally character too. Great palate weight, deep enough yet fresh, glides along and then screws...

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  • [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Papillon Grenache Blend 2021

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Papillon Grenache Blend 2021

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    WINE FRONT 93 POINTS!

      "Mostly grenache, some cinsault. Playful GC blend. Juicy, flirty red. Floral scents, red berries in scents and flavours, good chomp of sticky tannins, this fine, fresh feel throughout. Glistens in the palate; like sucking on a ruby. That...

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  • [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Dominion Shiraz 2019

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Dominion Shiraz 2019

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    JAMES SUCKLING 96 POINTS! WINE FRONT 94 POINTS!

      "A wine of real depth and power that also delivers real complexity. Dark-berry and plum aromas with plenty of spice and dark chocolate, as well as tarry accents. The palate is bold, powerful and packed with ripe dark-fruit flavors. Long,...

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  • [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Esprit Mataro Grenache 2020

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Esprit Mataro Grenache 2020

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    WINE FRONT 94 POINTS!

    "Mataro, grenache, cinsault. Feel the esprit. Lotus Esprit one of my favourite cars of all. Seriously good red. Dark fruit but medium weight, ripples with suede tannins, tightens and coils in on itself with spirals or woody spice and fragrant, leafy...

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  • [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Rose 2019

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Rose 2019

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    WINE FRONT 94 POINTS!

    A VIBRANT AND PERFUMED ROSE, FULL OF RED FRUIT AND FLORAL FLAVOUR, TEXTURE AND CRUNCH ACIDITY.   "Excellent rose. High drinkability, fair amount of texture, fruitiness, savouriness and more. Complex but not at the expense of straight-out...

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  • [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex La Colline Shiraz 2011

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex La Colline Shiraz 2011

    Region: SA- Adelaide Hills

    "La Colline, The Hill, is a 100% Adelaide Hills Shiraz and this is Pete Schell's second release. Schell has worked with bits and pieces of Adelaide Hills fruit over the years but this wine marks Spinifex's first all-Hills bottling. And no surprises-it's...

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  • [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Esprit Grenache Mourvedre Shiraz 2012

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Esprit Grenache Mourvedre Shiraz 2012

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    - Wine Front 93 points!Its both creamy and spicy but the wash of raspberried fruit is where the real action is. This slips through the mouth beautifully, layers of leather and earth adding plenty to that core of creamy red berried fruit. Pleasure and...

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  • [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Indigene Mataro Shiraz 2010

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Indigene Mataro Shiraz 2010

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    - Wine Front 94 points!If I was in the mood for a Barossa red I cant think of too many Id reach for ahead of this. Drinkability and class in a well structured framework. Ground spice, mixed berries, chicory and licorice. Theres a dry, chocolatey element...

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  • Spinifex Shiraz Viognier 2007

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Shiraz Viognier 2007

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    -Campbell Mattinson 95 points!'It seems that Spinifex wines can do no wrong. Funny thing is that I took a while to be convinced of the Spinifex mastery ... but I'm well and truly on board now. Exactly what top-notch shiraz viognier should be. Elegant and...

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  • Spinifex Esprit Mataro Grenache Shiraz 2010

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Esprit Mataro Grenache Shiraz 2010

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    Campbell Mattinson 94 Points!"Celebrated blend of mataro, shiraz and grenache " with some extra input from cinsault. Cracking wine, this 2010. Beautifully well managed. Tastes fresh and lively and yet has leathery, earthen notes " to complement the...

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  • Spinifex Indigene Mataro Shiraz 2009

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Indigene Mataro Shiraz 2009

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    Mike Bennie 94 points!"Bold, seductive aromas that run from Indian spice to red berries to briar and back to herbs. It's complex and heady, yet inviting, with plumes of scent evoking the character of the wine from afar. One of those you can whiff from...

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  • [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Garcon Grenache 2020

    [SOLD-OUT] Spinifex Garcon Grenache 2020

    Region: SA- Barossa Valley

    A PURE, DELICIOUS GRENACHE FROM OLD VINEYARDS IN BAROSSA

      "Celebrating the legacy of Barossa Valley Grenache, Pete Schell sources this wine from three dry-grown, old-vine parcels: one in the extreme west at Moppa (55 years old); one in northern Barossa at Ebenezer (90 years old); and one in Bethany in...

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