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Maverick Wines Pty Ltd. was established in 2004 with the objective to become one of the top premium boutique wineries in Australia. Although young, Maverick owns 100 acres of vineyards from the top terroirs across the Barossa Valley and Eden Valley. Approximately half of the vines are over 50 years old, and many much older - the Old Ben vineyard in the High Eden Valley has 100 year old Shiraz, at the Greenock Rise vineyard on both sides of Greenock Creek the Bush Grenache is over 100 years old, and even some Riesling from the 1860s! For many years the fruit from these vineyards went into some of the top names of the Australian wine industry - they are now proudly incorporated into our Maverick wines.
All Maverick wines are produced from estate grown fruit, using sustainable agricultural practices, with low yields resulting in optimal quality. Production is limited by the individual vineyard sites, with emphasis throughout is on delivering a tailor made product which combines outstanding quality and value. The Maverick objective is to make elegant, understated single vineyard varietal wines in Northern Rhone style, perfect consumed with or without food.
The Barossa Wine Region is broadly divided into 2 regions; Barossa Valley and Eden Valley. Within these regions are unique sites that sharply focus general regional wine styles into vineyard and even block specific wines that are a true reflection of that site’s terroir.
Maverick has 4 vineyards, each in very different areas of the Barossa giving it the ability to create unique vineyard specific wines.
One of the great aspects of the Barossa as a wine region is its unparalleled vine clonal diversity. As one of the first wine regions established in Australia it has many vineyards of significant age, many of which were established using vine planting material taken from the famous European wine regions before they were ravaged with phylloxera. This clonal material had been selected over generations of cultivation in Europe and is now preserved in some of the oldest "own rooted" vineyards in the world in the Barossa. The absence of phylloxera, which is regarded as the world's worst grape pest and has been responsible for the transition of own rooted vines to the use of rootstocks in most grape growing areas of the world, has meant Barossa vineyards have survived the test of time.
Wines are produce under the Trial Hills single vineyard and Twins categories.
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