The Louise Group Experiences The Louise is so fortunate to be located in a place where the culture and heritage is so rich and there are so many outstanding and unique wineries and local producers to visit and connect with. And as we have great relationships with local producers, we are thrilled to share these with you. As corporate or incentive guests these once-in-a-lifetime experiences afford you some truly outstanding team-building opportunities as well as a chance to gain insight into the workings of a worldclass wine region. The Barossa is home to over 80 cellar doors and over 50 small producers - allow us to introduce you to some of these gems of the Barossa Valley and treat your team to an experience they ll never forget. Here are a number of unique producers/tour operators who genuinely welcome a small corporate or incentive group from The Louise into their passion-filled field. These special tours share the essence of what is magic and special about the Barossa and come highly recommended. Our Sales and Events Manager is happy to answer your questions regarding the booking of the following group-based experiences. Email: events@thelouise.com.au Phone: (08) 8562 2722 Maggie Beers s Exclusive Group Demonstrations Group demonstrations are great experiences to share with your colleagues, friends or families. Sessions are available to be booked daily at 11.30am or 3.30pm. These interactive, exclusive sessions will teach you how to utilize Maggie s Verjuice, making it your new secret weapon in the kitchen! There are 3 different cooking demonstration options available for groups of 10-40 guests, available Monday to Friday, outside of South Australian school holidays, only: Demonstration only ($15 per person): An exclusive Cooking with Verjuice Demonstration for your group; taste Verjuice and Sparkling Ruby Cabernet, seasonal roast vegetables deglazed with Verjuice and salad greens tossed in a Verjuice Vinaigrette Lunch option ($40 per person): Exclusive demonstration as above plus Barossa Corn Fed Chook, roasted with fresh herbs and deglazed with Verjuice, Seasonal Vegetables roasted with fresh herbs and deglazed with Verjuice, Salad greens with Verjuice vinaigrette. Also included is a selection of Maggie Beer s Pate, served with wood oven bread and a glass of Pheasant Farm wine. Demo pack option ($69 per person with lunch, $44 per person without lunch): At the conclusion of the demonstration and / or lunch each guest will receive: 1 x signed copy of Maggie Beer s cooking with Verjuice Book 1 x 375ml bottle of Maggie Beer s Verjuice. All experiences are exclusively for groups of 10 or more. Bookings are essential. These experiences are not available on weekends or during South Australian school holidays, (School Holidays: 15/12/12-28/01/13; 13/04/13-28/04/13; 06/07/13-21/07/13; 28/09/13-13/10/13 and 14/12/13-27/01/14). Hot air ballooning Barossa Valley Ballooning invites you for the experience of a lifetime to enjoy the incredible thrill of a hot air ballooning adventure over The Barossa Valley, some of South Australia's most picturesque countryside. Your hot air balloon flight will last for about an hour but the magical memory will last forever. The beautiful Barossa Valley is situated about an hour's drive north east of Adelaide, and the best way to see the Barossa is from the aerial vantage point of one of our balloon baskets. Finish the morning in luxurious style with a superb buffet breakfast sampling some of the Barossa's delicious local produce in Harry's Restaurant at the award winning Novotel Barossa Valley Resort. $300 per person or $270 per person for a group of 6-12. Allow 5-6 hours. Please note a 4am pick-up is necessary for this experience as flights take place at dawn.
Barossa Classic Cycle Tours Barossa Classic Cycle Tours will tailor a bespoke and unique bike experience especially for your group. They ensure a great experience, taking time to engage with the beautiful Barossa Valley region and all its hidden secrets. The Barossa has over 80 cellar doors for your cycling and tasting pleasure. Admire the breath-taking scenery as you glide past rows and rows of vineyards with a backdrop of rolling hills whilst experiencing Australia s most famous wine region. Sufficient advanced notice is required for all tour reservations. A 2-3 2 3 hour tour typically includes: A starting and finishing point at The Louise A rider pack including: water, sports drink and snack bar A guide Back-up vehicle with first aid kit Your bike & helmet. 2-3 cellar door/local producer visits Group pricing: 15-20 guests, starting at $66 per person 10 14 guests, starting at $72 per person 6 9 guests, starting at $78 per person Artisans of the Barossa Artisans of the Barossa is a group of like-minded producers with a common goal to protect and promote small batch, subregional winemaking. They are seven individual wineries, with different winemaking styles representing the breadth and diversity of our home - the Barossa Valley. What binds these producers together is a commitment to making inspirational wines that uphold the culture and traditions of Barossa. Allow us to book you and your team into one of Artisans of the Barossa s outstanding experiences. Artisans Perspective (4-10 guests): A private tasting with your chosen winemaker and their wines served with our regional platter. This is a fantastic opportunity to get a behind the scenes glimpse of the wines and the maker. $75 per person, allow 1 hour. Artisans Collection (4-10 guests): A private tasting with an Artisans Ambassador looking at the top wines from each Artisan served with our regional platter. $75 per person, allow 1 hour. Artisans Studio (10-30 guests): This is a true study of Artisan wine. You will be guided through 3 tutored tastings hosted by our winemakers including blending your own wine, sub regionality amongst our brands and how to be a wine judge. The event is then followed by a lunch catered by Saskia Beer. We can tailor tastings options if required. $140 per person, allow 2-3 hours.
Charles Melton Wines Dry farmed, handcrafted fine Barossa red wines Since the first vintage of Charles Melton Wines in 1984, this small Barossa Valley winery has gained both national and international recognition for its premium red table wines. The wines span the range from a light red, The Rose of Virginia, through to Australia s premier Rhone-style red, Nine Popes. Charlie Melton also makes small quantities of Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon and is the only Australian producer of a vin-santo styled dessert wine, Sotto di Ferro. Great emphasis is placed on the quality of fruit, with all grapes dry grown and harvested from the winery s own 80 acres of prime Barossa vineyard land, as well as from a select group of grape-growers. Yields are extremely low (often only one tonne to the acre) and the vineyards are truly old with many exceeding 80 years and some well over a century in age. The Charles Melton Team invites you to join them at the winery for a private tasting of the Charles Melton Wines portfolio, a short winery tour and then lunch or cheese plate with a glass of wine while enjoying the serenity of the verandah of their Cellar Door. Choose one of these two memorable experiences: Charles Melton Private Experience with Cheese Plate. Private tasting, winery tour, cheese plate and glass of wine. $25pp (min 1, max 12 guests) allow 1.5 hours Charles Melton Private Experience with Lunch. Private tasting, winery tour, relaxing lunch and glass of wine. $50pp (min 1, max 12 guests) allow 2 hours Elderton Wines Great wine is made in the Vineyard Elderton celebrates the individual terroirs of each of their sites and to produce wines that show true regional history and character, varietal definition and a healthy slice of their own personalities. A team approach to ensure best practice in both the vineyards and winery is key to guarantee absolute quality in the bottle. Attention to detail in pruning, picking and winemaking, and using a combination of state of the art facilities and machinery, with some tried and true traditional techniques, ensures that the wines of Elderton will always show great brightness, purity and quality. The goal of the Ashmead family is to produce world class wines from entrenched varieties, grown in the Barossa from their vineyard holdings. Let the Elderton team take you through the journey with the following experiences: Elderton Experience Tour the vineyard including our 120 year old vines, then taste up to 6 wines including the Command Shiraz $35pp (min 2, max 12 guests), allow 1 hour. Elderton Elite Enjoy a tour around the vineyard with a glass of wine, then indulge in a private tasting of our current release and back vintage wines with a local cheese plate $65pp (min 2, maximum 12) allow 1.5 hours. Hentley Farm Extraordinary wines, intimate setting and bespoke experiences eriences Set below the rolling hills on the banks of Greenock Creek, just ten minutes from The Louise, Hentley Farm is a boutique, singleestate vineyard that produces distinctive wines reflective of the exceptional site. As a guest of The Louise, Hentley Farm will be pleased to extend to you an invitation normally reserved exclusively for their top level wine club members. This tour is a hosted experience in which you and your companions will discover the life journey of a luxury wine: from terroir to vine to barrel to glass. Start by taking a walk through their on-premise vineyard, discussing growing techniques with a knowledgeable guide, then taste your way through barrel samples in the winery before wandering over to Hentley Farm s gloriously restored barn. There, you will be treated to a memorable four-course lunch prepared by chef Lachlan Colwill (former chef of highly regarded Adelaide restaurant, The Manse), complemented with a selection of Hentley Farm s luxury wine range. Hentley Farm is one of the Barossa s newest winemaking operations, and within a short time has earned a reputation for its wines and for the experience of visiting its boutique site in the Western Barossa. Hentley Farm Experience. $185pp (min 2, max 16 guests). Allow 3 hours
Murray Street Vineyards - The Importance of Oak Oak is not an ingredient, Wine is not a commodity, Winemaking is not a recipe. Andrew Seppelt Andrew and Vanessa Seppelt, co-founders of Murray Street Vineyards, would like to share an educational tasting experience highlighting the art of oak, with guests of The Louise. The Importance of Oak reflects Andrew and Vanessa s artisanal winemaking ethos. A visit to France resulted in a profound understanding of the painstaking approach to oak selection taking into consideration individual trees and forests, and the skill of the individual cooper, further strengthening their passion for a wholly artisanal approach to winemaking. This led the Seppelts to ask themselves how they could share these experiences and their appreciation for the craft of winemaking with their customers. The answer lay in The Importance of Oak, a hands-on, personal, and highly educational tasting experience delivered by Andrew using one significant wine benchmarked against a series of oak influences. Guests will be personally met by Andrew at The Tasting Room, and led into Murray Street Vineyards atmospheric stone constructed Barrel Theatre where five oak barrels sourced from individual cooperages each with unique oak characters, have been filled with the 2012 Gomersal Shiraz. Forest and tree selection, degrees of charring and seasoning, and the individual craftsmanship of each cooperage will be explored for their influence on the character of this single wine, for a true tree to glass experience. Guests will also enjoy a deluxe platter of local produce and take home a bottle of the 2012 Gomersal Shiraz. Held daily, by appointment only (maximum 10 people), $180 per person. Rusden Wines - Welcome to our family! The Rusden name is synonymous with quality and is unique in the way it operates. The vineyard and winery is 100% family owned and operated and the wines made on-site. They work and harvest their own vineyards to ensure that traditional viticultural practises are kept alive. The Rusden brand is comprised of ten wines; each made using traditional methods, producing small batches of the highest quality wine, indicative of the Vine Vale terroir. Their brand ethos is to over deliver in every category, from their classic blends to the iconic Sandscrub single vineyard Shiraz. It is a carefully thought out long term commitment to developing strong, loyal relationships with our customers and maintaining the traditions that make our wines so unique. As guests of The Louise you are invited to visit and be part of the Rusden family whilst enjoying their outstanding wines and wood fired pizzas. Tastings are intimately hosted by one of their family and are held in the den the walls of which have witnessed many special moments shared amongst family, friends and visitors to the Barossa. Corporate groups of up to 18 guests can enjoy a Gourmet Pizza lunch, cooked in Rusden s historic wood-fired oven, using seasonal Barossa produce, served alongside: Current release wines at $70 per person Museum wines at $90 per person Available for groups of 10-18 guests. 2 weeks prior booking notice is essential. Allow 2 hours.
Seppeltsfield ~ A national treasure and living museum of Australian wine history Seppeltsfield is home to the world s largest unbroken collection of fortified wine dating back to 1878, and remains the only winery known to release a 100 year old wine each year. A national treasure and living museum of Australian wine history. Enjoy the ultimate foresight of Benno Seppelt when you tour the Seppeltsfield Estate. Both tours start in the original 1851 family Homestead; learn about the Seppelt family from their immigration, settlement by the Para River, to today. Take a stroll through the Elm Walkway to the barrel cellar, distillery, underground blending cellar and the quaint Joseph s Room. As guests of The Louise you have the opportunity to choose one of the two once-in-a-lifetime experiences below: Ultimate Legend of Seppeltsfield Tour: Tour the Seppeltsfield estate and finish with a private tasting in the trophy cellar focussing on the Paramount Collection and the 100 year old Para Vintage Tawny. Then in a historical first, Seppeltsfield Winery offers guests the experience to Taste Your Birth Year and walk alongside the longest lineage of single vintage wines in the world in the Centenary Cellar, culminating in a taste direct from barrel of your birth year, it is a truly memorable experience. $180 per person for up to 12 guests. Allow 2 hours Legend of Seppeltsfield Tour: Tour the Seppeltsfield Estate and finish with a tasting that includes five super premium Seppeltsfield wines, cheese and crackers, culminating with a taste of the 100 year old Para Vintage Tawny. $150 per person for up to 30 guests. Allow 2 hours. Bookings essential. Tscharke Wines A new tradition, contemporary Barossa Wines Tscharke s Place, just meters from The Louise, is the home of award winning estate wines and Tscharke Barossa Pottery, a place where people can visit and experience the unique produce that the Tscharke Team excel at creating. The team aims to explore and pioneer alternative grape varieties best suited to the Barossa s sub-appellations Seppeltsfield and Marananga. Tscharke s emerging varietal wines embrace the strengths of the Barossa terroir with extensive research behind the introduction of each alternative grape variety. The wines are truly handcrafted by acclaimed sixth generation Vigneron, Viticulturist and Winemaker Damien Tscharke who is involved directly in every aspect including research, planting vines, vineyard management and winemaking. As guests of The Louise you are invited to venture underground into the enchanting cellar at Tscharke s Place. Have a one on one experience with acclaimed Damien Tscharke and get an understanding of these contemporary Estate Wines. Enjoy a selection of locally baked wood oven breads, estate wines and a tour of Eva s pottery gallery. Tscharke Bread and Wine Experience $50pp (min 2, max 20 guests), allow 1 hour.
Turkey Flat Vineyards Turkey Flat is more than just a vineyard and home of some the best Barossa wines, it is a family business that forms a vital part of the region s rich cultural history and heritage. It was here, on the banks of Tanunda Creek where bush turkeys once roamed, that pioneer Silesian settler Johann Friedrich August Fiedler planted the first Shiraz vines in 1847. His vines flourished and the land was bought in 1865 by Gottlieb Ernst Schulz, a successful butcher who established a thriving retail business among the vines. Butchering developed into dairying, but the vineyards were always kept, until Peter, a fourth generation Schulz, and his wife, Christie, made the transition from grape growing to winemaking. For guests of The Louise two unique experiences are on offer: Age vs Youth Master Class: Guests will be guided through a comparative tasting of key varietals including Grenache, Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon or Mourvedre from two different vintages, one from the museum and one current release, followed by a tour of the winery and stroll to the 1847 Shiraz vineyard. Minimum 2, Maximum 20 guests. $45 per person Butchers Block Blending Session & Lunch: Guests are invited to create their own version of the Turkey Flat Butchers Block Shiraz / Grenache / Mourvedre blend. After being guided through the process and trialling 3 different blends of your own choice you will make a final blend which Turkey Flat will bottle for you to take home. Enjoy a tour of the winery and vineyards followed by a lunch of hand-made Barossa beef and Shiraz pie served with garden salad (vegetarian option available) in the Butchers Block tasting room accompanied by a glass of your own blend. Minimum 4, Maximum 20 guests. Allow 2 hours. $110 per person