Grant Burge is a fifth-generation Barossa vigneron and winemaker. The history of the Burge family and their long association with winemaking in the region can be traced back to March 1855, when noted tailor John Burge immigrated to the Barossa from Hillcot, near Pewsey in Wiltshire, England with his wife Eliza and their two sons.

Grant Burge’s Filsell vineyard with near century old vines is considered one of the best vineyards in the Barossa Valley and consistently produces fruit of great intensity and concentration. Planted in 1920, this vineyard also produces some of the fruit for Grant Burge Wines, flagship Shiraz, the highly acclaimed Meshach. Filsell is known to loyal followers as Meshach’s younger brother. The majority of the fruit for Filsell Shiraz comes from the vineyard of the same name.

The Filsell Vineyard was planted in 1920 and for the last 100 years has produced some of Australia’s premier and iconic Barossa Shiraz.
With only 6,000 bottles available, this once in a lifetime wine has been produced to celebrate the centenary of these vines.

This is a ravishingly beautiful wine, with a perfumed red and blue fruit bouquet promising a glorious palate that reflects all the decisions at every point along the way have been exactly chosen, and deliver a wine that airily floats across the journey from vine to glass. Date: Aug 2023; Drink to: 2043; Price: $99.00; Alcohol: 14.5%; Rating: 98 Points; James Halliday; The Weekend Australian

Hand picked from 100-year-old vines; crushed to an open top fermenter for 10 days on skins, thence pressed to French hogsheads (45% new) for 24 months' maturation. This is a ravishingly beautiful wine, with a perfumed red and blue fruit bouquet promising a glorious palate that reflects all the decisions at every point along the way have been exactly chosen to deliver a wine that airily floats across the journey from vine to glass. Only 500 dozen made, which is a pity. Date: Oct 2023; Alcohol: 14.5%; Price: $99.00; Drink by: 2043; Rating: 98 Points & Special Value Star; James Halliday Wine Companion

As the label says, this is a wine to recognise 100 years of old vine growing in the Barossa Valley. It is a pure essence of the Barossa with its blackberry, dark plummy aromas and a licorice, ground coffee bean complexity. The palate reveals layer upon layer of dark fruits spliced with plenty of supporting oak. Leave it in the glass and see how all that richness and power gradually releases. Date: June 2023; Price: $99.00; Drink: 2023-2048; Rating: 97 Points; Ray Jordan; Wine Pilot