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  • Seppeltsfield ups its SA cruise ship targets with a trip across the ditch

    Seppeltsfield ups its SA cruise ship targets with a trip across the ditch

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    Seppeltsfield Wines head of tourism Elaine Ratcliffe was one of eight South Australian wine industry professionals, researchers and academics to be awarded a bursary to visit other Great Wine Capitals around the world. Ratcliffe, who headed up Barossa winery Seppeltsfield’s tourism arm, was awarded a $6000 bursary to travel to Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, where…

  • Sunset on Seppeltsfield Road

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    Watch sun go down along Barossa’s most iconic road while enjoying some of the region’s best wine, food, gin, beer and music at Sunset on Seppeltsfield Road, Friday November 1. Friday 1 November, 2024 Sunset on Seppeltsfield Road Barossa Valley Tickets and more info After a sell-out 2023 event, “Sunset on Seppeltsfield Road” is back…

  • SA wine identity buys Australian Vintage vineyard as chairman departs

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    Randall Wine Group chairman and proprietor Warren Randall hopes his acquisition of a Lyndoch vineyard from embattled Australian Vintage will bolster Seppeltsfield’s re-entry plans into China’s luxury market. Speaking to InDaily, Randall said the deal came at an opportune time for his company which has been satisfying Chinese demand for Australian luxury wines following the…

  • SA wine mogul Warren Randall aims for China reboot after tariff wall crumbles

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    Before China introduced crushing tariffs on Australian wine exports four years ago, Warren Randall was savouring the fruits of success in the lucrative Asian market. He was selling premium bulk red wine to Chinese winemakers, Seppeltsfield was doing well there and he’d just found a niche in the market via his “entry-level” One Pound Per…

  • d’Arenberg Cube creator triggers protest with new vision

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    It was about four months ago when around 350 locals living in a quiet spot near the Onkaparinga River and McLaren Flat first saw Chester Osborn’s plans to build a striking new tasting facility for the Settlers Spirits distillery that he bought in 2021. Concept designs for the estimated $7.58 million project showcased a building…

  • Hall of Grace: Prue Henschke named a national wine treasure

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    Seppelstfield’s 100-year-old Para Vintage Tawny that sells for $1700 a bottle was also granted entry into the inaugural Hall of Fame: Wine. James Halliday AM praised the liquid gold saying “the importance and quality of this wine is beyond refute; it is a gift from generations past, a wine altar on which we worship, an…

  • McLaren Vale gin bar first step in creating ‘Seppeltsfield of the south’

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    The Randall Wine Group – owners of the iconic Seppeltsfield Estate in the Barossa – bought Penny’s Hill in April this year and executive chairman and proprietor Warren Randall said the group had ambitious plans to develop the picturesque site. “We are thrilled to welcome our very first tourism business to Penny’s Hill in McLaren…

  • Wine reviews: The climate is right for these cool reds

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    In the era of what we have simplistically called “alternative” or “emerging” varieties, we’ve also gone down another convenient path of lumping most of them together in a vague geographic pot as being of “Mediterranean” origin. But there is more to the story. Sure, many of the southern Italian, French and Spanish grapes fit nicely…

  • Disco bites, Stew and Shiraz, Bonjour Barossa

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    Disco Fork – June 3 Fork on the Road will bring its food truck carnival to Hart’s Mill in Port Adelaide for a disco-themed event this Saturday. In attendance will be all-star street food favourites Daisy Burger, La Cantina Co, Sloe Moe’s and Tacocat, among many others, as well as local craft brewers and small-batch distillers including…

  • Seppeltsfield ‘mark II’ promised for McLaren Vale

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    Warren Randall, who revamped the Seppeltsfield cellar door complex and returned the gravity-flow winery to working order, has bought the Ryecroft winery in McLaren Flat through his company, Seppeltsfield Wines. Behind an unremarkable contemporary brick wall on Ingoldby Road, Randall says there is an original 1888 winery – and he intends to restore it to…