Pipers Brook Vineyard
About
Take in the magnificent ocean views as you enjoy the self drive tour through the vines to arrive at the architecturally acclaimed winery building. Established in 1974, Pipers Brook Vineyard is the home of Kreglinger Wine Estates - producers of the internationally acclaimed Kreglinger Vintage, Pipers Brook and Ninth Island wines. Open daily, the cellar door offers tastings and sales as well as a range of gifts and accessories. Situated next to the cellar door, the Winery Café is an ideal place to relax over one of the estates' fine wines or an espresso. With a contemporary menu featuring local, seasonal produce the Winery Café also caters for light lunches and morning or afternoon teas.
Location Description
Located in the heart of Pipers Brook, Tasmania.
Features
- modern pioneers and leaders of the fine wine industry...
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History
Kreglinger, founded in 1797 by brothers George and Christian Kreglinger, is a family company which holds registration number one in Antwerp. In 1893, the family’s group of companies extended to Australia, establishing Kreglinger Australia, and thus began the long and enduring relationship that G & C Kreglinger have had with Australia.
In 2000, Kreglinger Australia diversified into wine production and marketing with the establishment of Norfolk Rise Vineyard – a winery and vineyard at Mount Benson in the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. The following year the business took majority ownership of Pipers Brook Vineyard in Tasmania.
The company’s commitment to quality and excellence in all areas has allowed Kreglinger Wine Estates to establish an international reputation as winemakers of quality.
Practices & Techniques
Estate Vineyards / AVA
Climatic conditions heavily influence the final quality of the grapes in their affect on the timing of the harvest. Cool climates have the luxury of slowing down the maturing of early ripening grapes like chardonnay and pinot noir so that there is a lengthy period between the onset of ripening and harvest.
It is best to harvest around the time when autumn colours set in and before autumn rains dilute the berries. Most of our harvest occurs around late March to late April at the peak of the dry autumn and before the risk of autumn frost and rain. The varieties we use are adapted to cool, humid growing conditions. They evolved in French climates not dissimilar to that of Tasmania. All varieties experience a long slow ripening and March is, on average, our driest month. This low rainfall during the ripening period aids sugar levels of grapes and adds to the body of the wines.
Soil:
Vines like deep porous soils and the best wines are produced where a deep-rooted vine is neither under or over supplied with moisture. We have selected the ferrosol or kraznozems of northern Tasmania for our best vineyards because the soils are deep, well drained and with ideal moisture characteristics.
Although the red colour makes them look rich, in their native state they are quite poor being deficient in phosphorous, zinc and boron. We maintain the soils with low nitrogen levels to make sure the vines do not produce too much top growth.
We do not believe calcium-based soils have a monopoly on quality. Grapes for the Kreglinger sparkling produce base wines which "bear an uncanny resemblance" to those from Champagne vineyards and yet Champagne grapes are grown on limestone soils and our grapes on basalt derived soils.
In the early seventies Professor Seguin suggested the quality of French vineyard soils is related mainly to their soil moisture properties. Our observations support his hypothesis.