The Barossa Valley, with its strong German heritage, is a place full of character. The region has a long history of making full-body reds, robust whites and fortified wine. Located 70km north of Adelaide, the Barossa Valley has a unique beauty of its own.
Since 1952, the Schild family have lived and worked in the Southern Barossa. Ben and Alma Schild moved from harsh Murray Mallee country (40km west of the Victorian border), purchasing their first vineyard, nestled at the foothills of the Barossa Ranges and overlooking Rowland Flat, where today the original homestead still stands.

Schild Estate Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
Varieties:  Cabernet Sauvignon
Region:  Barossa Valley
Eyes: Dense with dark purple hues
Nose: Deep and controlled with fresh, crunchy dark fruit supported by subtler secondary notes of cedar and sandalwood which provide a restrained edge to the wine. Ends with just a faint hint of classic Cabernet perfume to provide a clue at variety.
Mouth: Attractive creamy dark berry compote fruit is supported by a fresh and a focused line of travel through the palate. This dark fruit holds firm, deep and long before just a hint of dusty tannins shows late working around the edges, providing another layer and rounding out the wine.
Winemaking Notes: 2016 saw warm and dry conditions throughout most of growing season, but without any significant periods of severe heat. Yields were low and many red varieties ripened evenly, with great flavor depth and some firm prominent tannins which have softened well during maturation.
 
Schild Estate Barossa Valley GMS
Varieties:  Grenache / Mourvedre / Shiraz
Region:  Barossa Valley
Eyes: Dark cherry red, ruby
Nose: Inviting red fruit aromas of fresh cherries, red currants and raspberries combine with some blue fruit notes upfront before a hint of stony minerality and subtle notes of pepper spice, lavender and garrigue herb emerge from behind.
Mouth: Vibrant red berry and raspberry fruit show early on the palate providing a pillowy, velvet like feel to the wine early on. This fruity opening envelope a firm Mataro core driving down the middle. Some white pepper spice provides an additional layer of interest and a super fine tannin presence provides some balance, containment and focus to the fruit.
Winemaking Notes: This blend of Grenache (52%), Mourvedre (24%) and Shiraz (24%) is an homage to the great wines of the Southern Rhone but with a very Barossan accent. These three classic red wine varieties are blended to showcase the unique qualities of each whilst ensuring balance, and purity of fruit.
 
Schild Estate Barossa Valley Shiraz
Varieties:  Shiraz
Region:  Barossa Valley
Eyes: Dark ruby, with purple, black hues.
Nose: Intense aromas of blood plums and brambly dark berry fruit show alongside more subtle oak and sumac spice and lavender wood.
Mouth: A fresh, plump, supple attack of dark berry fruit rolls though depp into the palate, still showing strong and lively all the way through to the finish. This is accompanied by a later arriving super fine tannin frame which provides some outside framing and a clear line of focus.
Winemaking Notes: Sourced from a number of carefully selected estate vineyard parcels in an around Lyndoch and Rowland Flat, Schild Estate’s Barossa Shiraz is designed to reflect the soft elegant palate of Schild’s viticultural home in the Southern portions of the Barossa Valley.

 
Schild Estate Barossa Valley Sparkling Shiraz
Varieties:  Shiraz
Region:  Barossa Valley
Eyes: Hues of deep cherry & garnet.
Nose: Lifted, fresh red and black fruit aromas of raspberries, dark plums, blackberry and bramble fruit are supported by more subtle hints of milk chocolate and clove spice.
Mouth: Shows full, round and textural up front with juicy Morello cherry and berry fruit flavours sitting alongside teasing glimpses of chocolate, all extending deep into the mid palate. Here some vibrant, balanced acidity and soft tannin framing arrives providing structure to the fruit and keeping the wine focused on moving at a sprightly pace through the mouth. Finishes clean long and fresh.
Winemaking Notes: Uniquely Australian and heartily embraced in the Barossa, Sparkling Shiraz has been a part of the Schild family’s stable of wines right from the early days. Ed Schild quickly realized that the soft dark berry fruit, fine tannins and vibrant acid so often seen in Shiraz sourced from in and around Lyndoch in the southern Barossa made it an area ideally suited to making “red fizz”.
 
Schild Estate Barossa Valley Unwooded Chardonnay
Varieties:  Chardonnay
Region:  Barossa Valley
Eyes: Pale Straw.
Nose: Fragrant delicate floral notes, white peach, nectarines and stone fruit.
Mouth: Round and juicy with a hint of creamy volume derived from lees stirring and some tell tale varietal nuttiness. Familiar notes of white peach, tropical fruit and lemon citrus to finish are coupled with a fresh acid line and a clear direction of travel and some real balance.
Winemaking Notes: A mild, and at times cool December and January saw ideal conditions prevail towards the end of the growing season in the region. The result was a measured pace of ripening which ensured the balanced development of sugar and flavors in the fruit along with the retention of natural grape acid. A particularly strong year for white wine.

Ben Schild Reserve Shiraz
Varieties: Shiraz
Region: Barossa Valley
Eyes: Deep, dark purple. Dense and solid to the edge.
Nose: Aromatic primary fruit aromas of blood plums and blackcurrants are accompanied by just a hint of violet flowers, soft creamy fresh vanilla bean, dark chocolate and mocha notes and a fleeting, wafting subtle glimpse of oak spice.
Mouth: A classic core of plush, lifted dark berry compote fruit, coupled with classic chocolate and spice flavors and a vibrant acid line ensures some freshness and vitality on tasting. This primary fruit holds its line to the end constantly intertwined and enveloped by a fine, but ever present tannin structure providing some clear framing, direction and balance and ensures no jagged edges are evident.
Winemaking Notes: Upon purchasing the Three Springs property in 1952, Ben Schild transformed the land into a mixed farm with a focus on sustainable viticulture and planted the seed that would one day become Schild Estate.
Sourced from a carefully selected single vineyard parcel in the hills overlooking Lyndoch, this wine has been created as a fitting tribute to the man that started the family’s long association with viticulture & winemaking in the Barossa.
 
Moorooroo Limited Release Shiraz
Varieties:  Shiraz
Region:  Barossa Valley
Eyes: Dark ruby with purple hues
Nose: Balanced and inviting primary aromas of concentrated, soft blackcurrant and dark plum fruit are intertwined in and around secondary glimpses of fresh vanilla bean and a faint presence of well integrated oak spice.
Mouth: The unctuous dark berry fruit and sense of creaminess evident on the nose are also prominent as flavours on the palate. Here they fill out the mouth and roll all the way though to a long and lingering finish. A bright acid structure and some fine tannins provides a clear frame and direction of travel ensuring a genuinely balanced feel to the palate.
Winemaking Notes: This irreplaceable vineyard was planted by Johan and William Jacob in 1847, just eleven years after the foundation of South Australia. These vines are now over 169 years old - some of the oldest vines in the world!
The block is situated between Jacob's Creek and the North Para River, hence the name Moorooroo, an aboriginal word meaning 'meeting of two waters'.
The Moorooroo vines concentrate the characteristics of the single vineyard into a wine of rare complexity, at the same time displaying intensity of character with a subtlety and elegancy only found in wines of the very highest quality.

PRÄMIE Special Release Shiraz
Varieties:  Shiraz
Region:  Barossa Valley
Eyes: Deep, dark ruby.
Nose: Full, soft and layered with aromas of vibrant blackberries and blood plum fruit. These are coupled with secondary more subtle hints of cedar wood, fresh vanilla bean, pan forte and clove spice.
Mouth: Intense primary fresh plum flavors show again on the palate, where they hold their presence all the way through to roll out soft and “pillowy” at the finish. A firmly present, but fine tannin framework provides just enough focus and lift for the fruit to ensure added complexity, but retaining vibrancy to the mouth flavors of this wine.
Winemaking Notes: Every so often there are parcels of wine that generate tremendous excitement amongst the winemakers at Schild Estate. We set this aside to make PRÄMIE, the wine that defines the best of the vintage and the land on which it was grown.
Shiraz fruit was selected from two special sites, our Liebich and Angus Brae blocks high up on the Eastern Hills. Meticulously handled to allow the vineyard to reach its fullest expression in the glass, pure lifted blue and black berries with hints of graphite and clove give way to a rich, dynamic palate showing great control. Finesse and length.
 
Edgar Schild Reserve Grenache
Varieties:  Grenache
Region:  Barossa Valley
Eyes: Deep dark ruby
Nose: Lifted aromas of both red and dark berry fruit aromas show prominently upfront and are supported by subtler hints of fruit loaf, cardamom and faint oak spice
Mouth: Notes of morello cherries, red currants and dark plum fruit fill out the front and mid palate with texture and presence. These sit alongside refreshing mouth aromatics and pepper spice supported all the time by a fine subtle tannin frame constantly lifting and framing the wine. The result is some lovely movement through the mouth before finishing structured, clean and long as the fruit rolls out the back end
Winemaking Notes: A mild, December and January with cool nights saw ideal conditions prevail towards the end of the 2016 growing season. The result was a measured pace of ripening which ensured the balanced development of sugar and flavors in the fruit along with the retention of natural grape acid before some later season warmth allowed some real fruit presence to develop.