Great wine drives Hunter Valley
Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine
Angus Hughson
1 May 2010
Home to some of the oldest vines and biggest names in Australian wine, the Hunter Valley is a mecca for lovers of quality drops. This three-day itinerary hits all the top spots as well as provides a sneaky insight into the talented young winemakers who are keen to take the region to new heights.
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Places and faces of the Valley
Drinks Trade
Katrina Holden
1 May 2010
The Hunter Valley, like most wine regions, relies and thrives on a mix of wine, tourism and hospitality. Katrina Holden and Sarah Davey met up with some of the Valley's characters and key operators to hear their stories of contribution to the region they call home.
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Quench
Illawarra Mercury
Kerry Skinner
17 April 2010
Names like James Bushby, Dr Henry Lindeman, George Wyndham, Maurice O'Shea and Edward Tyrrell epitomise the rich tapestry that is the Hunter Valley's wine history.
None more so than Tyrrell's Wines, who have been making wine in the Hunter for more than 150 years.
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Tyrrell's goes with the flow
WBM
31 March 2010
The popularity of white varietals making a substantial presence on Australian wine consumers has influenced Tyrrell's to release its latest white wine, Old Winery Pinot Grigio.
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Harvesting the Hunter
National Liquor News
Mike Bennie
26 March 2010
The continual success of Tyrrell's comes from not only solid foundations, but from the ability to progress and to build in an increasingly difficult market. While events like 'Jazz in the Vines' continue to be held on site at the Tyrrell's vineyards, innovative value add off-premise promotions and new releases are also assisting the continuing success of the brand.
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Top 20 Australian wine companies
Australian & NZ Grapegrower & Winemaker
Tony Keys
26 March 2010
Last year Grapegrower & Winemaker introduced the Top 20 Australian wine companies report. It was very well received, proving informative, interesting and providing readers with extensive insight into what happened the year prior. It is worth noting that 16 of the 23 wineries are family-held companies. Tyrrell's Wines is number 18.
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Venture into Semillon
Melbourne Weekly
Jeff Gordon
23 March 2010
This wine has had five years in the bottle and is now beginning to show the lovely toast and slight honeysuckle characteristics of developed semillon, but as it was bottled under screw cap it still has the delightful freshness and citrus/acid bite that makes aged semillon so popular with wine show judges and white wine drinkers.
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Pinot Grigio to take on popular sauvignon blanc
Launceston Examiner
Mike Burnett
17 March 2010
A wine industry leader has made the observation that pinot grigio is where sauvignon blanc was five years ago. Anyone not up on the sauvignon blanc success can rapidly come up to speed by taking a look at its heavy weightingg on wine retail shelves and restaurant lists.
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Generation Game Plan
Sydney Morning Herald
Ellen Connolly
9 March 2010
Chris Tyrrell, his hands stained red from harvesting, admits he could well have wine in his blood. For as long as he can remember, the 27-year-old knew he would work in the wine industry.
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Quality trumps quantity
Newcastle Herald
17 February 2010
Although many Hunter wineries will continue to process grapes and juice from other wine regions, the 2010 Hunter vintage is pretty well done and dusted.
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Hunter drops rewarded with fine haul
Newcastle Herald
17 February 2010
Last week was a joyful one for Hunter wine producers as they wound up a quick and successful 2010 vintage and harvested a haul of two major trophies and 20 gold medals at the Sydney Wine Show.
For the third time in four years, the Tyrrell family wine company won the NSW Royal Agricultural Society Trophy for the best semillon of show.
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Wine of the Week - Belford Semillon 2004
Good Living, Sydney Morning Herald
Huon Hooke
19 January 2010
This is simply a great wine and a distinctive, dare I say, unique, regional style. Do yourself a favour and discover one of the world's greatest food wines. It's amazingly fresh and youthful, with a light-yellow hue; lemon-zest aromas dominate a bouquet that is just starting to build bottle-aged complexity. It has a tremendous combination of delicacy and intensity in the mouth, with impressively long and concentrated citrusy flavour and great harmony. Just 11 percent alcohol and bone-dry, so it's good for the weight-conscious. It can take a serious chill. Now to six-plus years. 96/100
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Industry acclaim for lightweightwine bottles
Australian & New Zealand Wine Industry Journal
31 December 2009
Australia's Lean+Green lightweight wine bottles have won widespread industry acclaim just months after the official launch in Australia and the UK in May 2009.
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The Tyrrell's Touch
WBM
Anthony Madigan
2 December 2009
On a wet Tuesday in October I'm sitting in a pub opposite the Adelaide Railway Station waiting for Bruce Tyrrell AM. Bruce is good fun to break bread with - he tells a good yarn and has more one-liners that Rodney Dangerfield in Caddyshack. And he's a dream interview because he has an opinion on most things, which is probably why some of the things he says attract headlines.
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National Wine Show of Australia
Maitland Mercury
1 December 2009
Three Hunter Valley Wines have been unveiled as the "best of the best" at the Vintage Cellars National Wine Show of Australia.
Tyrrell's Vineyards was awarded two trophies - Best Dry White Table Wine (semillon, premium classes) for its 2005 Belford Semillon and The Semillon Trophy (2007 and older vintages) for its 2004 Belford Semillon.
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Vision vindicated
WBM
30 November 2009
Bruce Tyrrell could see the Australian red wine boom coming in 1993 and decided to extend the winery's viticultural reach beyond the Hunter Valley and into places like McLaren Vale and Heathcote.
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Golden oldies
WBM
30 November 2009
Bruce Tyrrell says the Australian wine industry has a precious commodity sitting right under its nose that's not being fully utilised or marketed - old vines.
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Semillon stands the (taste) test of time
Launceston Examiner
Mike Burnett
25 November 2009
The search for the next big thing in Australian wine has its risks.
The danger is that we can forget about, or at least push into the background, some of the great styles and varieties that we already have.
Semillon is one long-established grape that should not be ignored.
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Semillon to counteract New Zealand 'sauvalanche'
Sunday Examiner
Mark Smith
15 November 2009
We're spoilt for choice when it comes to white wine varieties. In Australia, winemakers have more than a couple of dozen different white grape varieties at their disposal each vintage, at least among those that are grown in sizeable commercial quantities.
So why is it that consumers in the premium end of the market seem so content to splash millions of litres of New Zealand sauvignon blanc down their gullets each summer when there are so many other choices on offer?
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United we stand
Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine
Nick Ryan
1 November 2009
The country's foremost wine families have joined forces in a bid to reverse the global opinion polls on fine wine from our shores. Each family, captured here at Sydney's Wildfire, brings a swathe of history to the campaign.
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Savour the taste of the old drop
Singleton Argus
Kate Morris
9 October 2009
The viticultural lineage of some of the finest vineyards in the Hunter is being kept alive thanks to a recent initiative devised by wine legend Bruce Tyrrell.
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Tyrrell's does it by the book
Australian & NZ Grapegrower & Winemaker
29 September 2009
Hunter Valley winery Tyrrell's was named Australian winery of the year in James Halliday's 2010 Wine Companion. Tyrrell's this year is celebrating 151 years of winemaking and has had a stellar 12 months.
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Wine industry's founders forge new brand
Maitland Mercury
Julie Hartigan
8 September 2009
Life is full of variables but for Hunter Valley vigneron Bruce Tyrrell there have always been two constants - family and wine. Mr Tyrrell is the fourth generation to find the family/wine balance that has led to unprecendented success for the Tyrrell's label and the fifth generation - John, Christopher and Jane - are continuing the tradition by working alongside their father.
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When family run is the humane way forward
Newcastle Herald
Phillip O'Neill
7 September 2009
Twelve proud family owned wineries have banded together to form Australia's First Families of Wine. Their aim is to enhance the reputation of Australian wines on the world market.
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Aussies are on the nose
West Australian
Ray Jordan
5 September 2009
Aussies like to pride themselves on their wine but industry experts say Australian wine is suffering from a serious image problem overseas. Twelve of the country's most iconic winemakers banded together to launch Australia's First Families of Wine in August.
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Esteemed winemaker pops in
Blue Mountains Gazette
2 September 2009
Tyrrell's Wines have been contributing to the Australian wine industry for 150 years. Originating from Tyrrell's Wines finest and oldest vineyards in the Hunter Valley region, their winemaker's selection sampled on the night was one of the oldest and most awarded collection of wines.
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Tyrrell's Lunatiq new release
WBM
1 September 2009
There has always been a healthy debate about the moon's influence on wine and vines - based on the fact that the earth has rhythms in respect to its position to the sun, moon and the stars. In recognition of this discussion, Tyrrell's has launched the new Lunatiq Heathcote Shiraz 2006.
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Victoria's hidden gem
WBM
1 September 2009
Heathcote has made its name as the home of the connoisseur's Shiraz. Those in the know, know Heathcote. In fact, there's a general consensus among many well-known wine scribes that if they were to plant a vineyard of their own, this is where they would do so.
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Show success for region's best
Newcastle Herald
John Lewis
26 August 2009
Two wines - the Tyrrell's 2007 Stevens Shiraz and the Warraroong Estate 2005 Semillon - shone the most brightly at last week's 2009 Hunter Valley Wine show at Singleton.
The Tyrrell's 2007 Stevens Shiraz won five trophies, including the Doug Seabrook Trophy for best red wine of the show.
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Top 12 family wineries join forces
Courier Mail
Ken Gargett
25 August 2009
About 17 years ago, a group of the world's top family wineries formed an association they called "Primum Familiae Vini", the First Families of Wine.
Now Australia has a wine family of its own, Australia's First Families of Wine. In the making for about three years, it is largely in response to the endless criticism that our wine is copping offshore.
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Love in the Valley
The Age
Jane Faulkner
22 August 2009
There are few families wine companies that can boast a 150-year history that includes ownership of one of Australia's most successful wines, but Tyrrell's in the Hunter Valley has such bragging rights. They're also one of the finest producers of semillon, several actually.
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Tyrrell praises Aussie palates
Western Suburbs Weekly
Christian Wilkinson
11 August 2009
Fourth-generation winemaker Bruce Tyrrell of Tyrrell's Wines knows a thing or two about how to produce a world-class vintage, but he says Australian wine consumers wouldn't put up with anything less.
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A Good Red
Noosa News
7 August 2009
The newly released Tyrrell's 2006 Vat 8 Shiraz won three major trophies at the 2008 Hunter Valley Wine Show, including Best Red Wine of Show and Premium Vintage Red Wine.
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Legendary Hunter Semillon
WBM
31 July 2009
Fashions change in wine styles and varieties, both in winemaking and consumption. Sometimes the two even go hand-in-hand. The Hunter has had its share of changes, with dabbling in Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir and even some current lip service to Sauvignon Blanc.
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Hunter winery selected in best of company
Newcastle Herald
31 July 2009
AWARD-winning author James Halliday has named the Hunter's Tyrrell's winery Australian winery of the year in his 2010 Wine Companion book.
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