TOWER ESTATE古城堡庄园

Winery

Tower Estate is situated on Broke Road, the main artery through Pokolbin, and produced its first vintage in 1999. Early on Evans and his team realised that their declared objective of “excellence” was only feasible with the right winemaker in charge. So they were fortunate to find someone of Dan Dineen’s calibre. Trained at Roseworthy College in South Australia and gaining vintage experience locally and in France, Dan made

his name creating stylish wines for two premier Hunter Valley wineries, Mount Pleasant and Brokenwood. With his finely developed sensory skills, he was the ideal candidate to take the helm even before Evans & McGuigan succeeded in hiring him to Tower Estate.

With Evans charming parcels of high quality fruit out of his old mates, and Dan Dineen in charge in the cellars, the aim is to produce classic, regionally styled wines with distinctive varietal expressions. All wines are made from fermentation onwards at Tower. There is a Cabernet Sauvignon from Coonawarra, a Riesling from Clare Valley, a Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay from Adelaide Hills, a Shiraz from the Barossa, and a Semillon, Verdelho, Chardonnay and Shiraz each from the Hunter Valley.

庄园概况

古城堡庄园（Tower Estate）地处澳洲著名的葡萄酒产区——猎人谷（Hunter Valley），庄园位于穿过伯克尔滨(Pokolbin)的主干道旁，于1999年开始葡萄酒酿造。一开始伊凡（Evans）和他的团队就认识到，他们所追求的“卓越”的目标只有在“卓越”的酿酒师来主导整个酿酒过程时才是切实可行的，因此，他们幸运的找到一位有酿酒天分的奇才——丹·狄尼恩（Dan Dineen）。丹曾在澳大利亚南部罗斯沃尔塞大学Roseworthy College接受教育，在澳洲和法国获得了酿酒的经验，后来为猎人谷两个首屈一指的葡萄酒厂泊莱森特山（Mount Pleasant）和伯若科恩伍德（Brokenwood）创制了别具风味的葡萄酒而声名鹊起。因此，凭着他成熟的感官技能，他是Tower庄园掌舵的理想人选。

有了出自伊凡老伙计之手的迷人的高品质的葡萄，有了Dan主管地窖，Tower庄园的目标就是生产出一流的、具有地域风味的、与众不同的葡萄酒。于是，Tower庄园便在不同的区域筛选当地最好的葡萄，如：来之库纳华拉（Coonawarra）的赤霞珠（Carbernet Sauvignon），克莱尔谷（Clare Valley）的雷司令（Reisling）， 塔斯马尼亚（Tasmania）的黑比诺（Pinot Noir）等等。为了确保葡萄酒的品质，所有的发酵过程都在Tower庄园里进行。