Steingarten Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed within 2 to 5 years of release for fresh citrus vibrancy, or aged for 10 to 20 years to develop complex toast, honey, and petrol characters.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters, pan-seared trout, spicy Thai green curry
✨ Technical Specifications
Steingarten, translating to 'stone garden' in German, is one of Australia's most legendary and pioneering cool-climate Rieslings. Conceived in 1962 by Colin Gramp, this iconic wine was born from a daring experiment to plant Riesling on a windswept, bone-dry, and incredibly rocky ridge in the Eden Valley. The terrain was so unforgiving that workers reportedly had to use dynamite to blast planting holes into the hard schist and quartz soils. This extreme terroir forces the vines to struggle, resulting in a wine of immense concentration, laser-like acidity, and a distinctive flinty minerality. Steingarten represents a benchmark for dry Australian Riesling, celebrated for its purity, structure, and ability to reflect the rugged beauty of its high-altitude origins.
🍾 About the Producer
Jacob's Creek traces its lineage to 1847, when Bavarian immigrant Johann Gramp planted the Barossa Valley's first commercial vineyard on the alluvial flats bordering Jacob's Creek. Originally developed under the historic Orlando Wines banner, the brand officially debuted under the Jacob's Creek label in 1976 and evolved into Australia's quintessential wine export powerhouse. Headquartered at Rowland Flat, the estate benefits from a classic warm Mediterranean climate with ironstone, sandy loam, and red-brown clay soils, ideal for delivering fruit purity and velvety tannin structure. Fruit sourcing extends across Barossa, Coonawarra, and the high-altitude, windswept slopes of Eden Valley. Led by Chief Winemaker Dan Swincer, the cellar balances commercial accessibility with pedigree viticulture through sustainable, low-impact farming. While celebrated globally for its approachable Classic and Reserve varietal releases, Jacob's Creek commands critical reverence through flagship cuvées such as the mineral-etched, age-worthy Steingarten Riesling, Centenary Hill Shiraz, and the pioneering Double Barrel series aged in whiskey-seasoned casks.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
11.5% - 12.5%