Battle of Bosworth

• 2013 Spring Seed ‘Sweet Pea’ Moscato now available We’ve had to be quick on our feet with this new vintage of the Sweet Pea. Huge demand plus the fact that we had run out of the 2012 vintage has meant a fair bit of back office and winery rustling of papers and tanks (thanks Hugh at McLaren Vintners) to get this current vintage ...
• Meet Your (Wine) Maker Each year as a region McLaren Vale brings down an assortment of restaurateurs and retailers from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and sometimes even WA! They spend a couple of days and nights here tasting wine, doing masterclasses, going up in a helicopter and generally getting a real taste of the food and wine culture ...
• 2011 McLaren Vale Scarce Earth Shiraz Launch Saturday 27th April Tickets are available for the launch of the 2011 McLaren Vale 2011 Scarce Earth Single Vineyard Shiraz. This is the third release of these wines. In the words of Stacey who works at the McLaren Vale Grape Wine and Tourism Assoc, please find details about the Scarce Earth project below: Scarce Earth is an initiative of ...
• Trophy at the 2013 Organic Wine Show   For the second year running, the Puritan Shiraz {no added Preservative} has taken the trophy for best preservative free wine of show at the Australia and New Zealand Organic Wine Show. The 2012 Puritan won a Gold medal in the Shiraz Class (class 11), was the highest pointed wine in that class and then then ...
• Upcoming events in March and April 2013 There are some great events coming up that Battle of Bosworth and Spring Seed are involved in, so open up your diaries and start blocking some dates off. First up is ‘Sips in the Country’, which is part of the inaugural Adelaide Food and Wine Festival. Sips in the Country is on Sunday April the ...
• Sold Out – 2011 Pinot Noir   So, farewell then, 2011 Battle of Bosworth Pinot Noir. The inaugural Battle of Bosworth Pinot Noir is no more.  If you are lucky, you might find some around the traps in fine wine shops, or if you happen to be in London you can slide by one of the 3 (or is it 4?) highly ...
• 2012 Wrap-up The prospect of harvest – or vintage – is slowly but surely rearing its head. Vintage for us here at Battle of Bosworth means Joch and the boys putting some serious hours into picking our grapes. We harvest the white varieties at night so we can deliver them to the winery in the cool of ...
• Sips and the City Wednesday 21st November 6-9pm at Adelaide’s Apothecary 1878 A call to arms, ladies of Adelaide. Come and be entertained and informed by 4 mistresses of wine, namely Louise from Battle of Bosworth and Spring Seed Wines, Corrina Rayment from Oliver’s Taranga, (Will she be wearing a beard? Have a look at their website for enlightenment on that last comment -  http://www.oliverstaranga.com ) Karina Dambergs ...
• Chanticleer Shiraz 96 Halliday Points   Our 2012 Scarce Earth Single Vineyard Chanticleer Shiraz got a great plug in James Halliday’s Wine Companion Newsletter (1st November 2012) getting 96 points. This is the highest score we have ever got for one of our wines from James, and so is terrifically exciting. The fact there is only about 5 dozen left of this ...
• 2010 Best of Vintage is a Hot 100 SA Wine   ‘the Adelaide Review Hot 100 South Australian Wines is a search for the most drinkable and exciting wines in South Australia, but more than that, the Hot 100 SA Wines is a celebration of South Australian culture, people and places’  James Erskine, Co’ordinator of Judges.  The 2010 Battle of Bosworth ‘Best of Vintage’ Cabernet/ Shiraz/ Petit Verdot was judged ...