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Vickery Wines

Vickery Wines is the culmination of John Vickery's half-century of winemaking experience, partnered alongside family friend and talented winemaker Phil Lehmann. Together they create Rieslings that showcase John's extensive expertise with the most noble of white wine varieties and intimate knowledge of the land to produce the best possible fruit. Once grapes are picked at their optimum ripeness, Phil and John employ winemaking techniques which they have refined and perfected over time to craft Rieslings with a signature style and high quality standards.

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John Vickery has been instrumental in shaping the history of Riesling in Australia. His mastery began with the iconic Leo Buring Riesling in 1955 at Chateau Leonay winery, where the focus was on Eden Valley and Watervale fruit.

Without any modern day processing equipment winemaking was quite a crude process, which shows true testament to his outstanding ability. Vickery’s hallmark approaches were cool fermentation and careful handling, so it was in the latter years with the introduction of refrigeration and air bag presses, that John was best able to capture the Riesling grape’s fine delicate flavours.

With more than fifty Trophies and an incredible four hundred Gold Medals (and a Jimmy Watson for good measure) John Vickery is recognized as an inspiration and benchmark for many young (and old) winemakers. Highlights of his career include winning the 2007 Wolf Blass Riesling Award at the Canberra International Riesling challenge. He was humbled to be judged by his peers as Australia’s Greatest Living Winemaker in a survey conducted by Epicure in 2003. But he considers his most rewarding contribution to the Australian Wine Industry, being the first to re-introduce the screw cap with the 1998 Richmond Grove Watervale and Barossa Rieslings. This was by any measure, the single most significant event in the improvement in quality of Australian Riesling.

In 2007 John was awarded the Medal of Order of Australia for 'service to the wine industry as an oenologist, particularly through the development of innovative methods for Riesling production.'

04.7.2018

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