From the Gramps’ own winery vineyard comes this classic Cabernet featuring lovely cassis and mulberry aromas, with notes of tomato plant and forest floor undergrowth. There’s a hint too of leather-bound books; a development feature due to the wine's time in bottle. Loads of primary fruit still, and it’s ripe, with good structure, and fine tannins knitted together. Fruit-driven, meaty, chewy. Delicious.

Tim Gramp is a fifth generation direct descendant of the wine family that made the Barossa Valley-based company, Orlando, famous. It is a proud history that dates back to 1837 when Johann Gramp, keen to start a new way of life, sailed from Germany to Australia at the tender age of 17. Johann eventually settled in the Barossa Valley, at a beautiful riverside location known as Jacob’s Creek, and set about planting the first vineyard in the Barossa Valley. Wine is in Tim’s veins and he has kept flying the flag to continue the Gramp dynasty. He studied at the world-renowned Roseworthy College, then spent a career working for, and collaborating with wine companies in Australia and around the world for over forty years. Tim’s heritage and focused commitment have nurtured and reinforced his winemaking philosophy to produce exceptional wine from small parcels of fruit selected from single-site vineyards in the famous sub-region of Watervale in the Clare Valley. The use of the time-honoured basket press epitomises the definitive historical, regional and varietal characteristics of Tim Gramp Wines.