About Tim Smith
Tim Smith is a Barossa Valley-based winemaker and one of Australia’s most awarded boutique producers. He focuses on making wines from the Barossa region’s time proven varietals of Mourvedre (locally called Mataro), Grenache and Shiraz, and also sources exceptional parcels of Shiraz, Riesling and Viognier fruit from Eden Valley.
Tim’s story started, like many, with a bottle of wine and a dream. The early 1980’s Yarra Yering Dry Red #2, with its heady perfume and rich fruity sweetness, seduced him and he decided he simply had to make his own. His first wine industry role was as a cellar hand at Yalumba in 1987. Fifteen years later, with considerable support from the Yalumba team, he became Winemaker with a wine science degree under his belt and won the Winemaker Exchange Scholarship as part of the Barossa Valley/Rhone Valley Winemaker Exchange Program. He spent a watershed vintage period in the North and South Rhone Valleys, where he was able to shadow a few of the region’s most dynamic winemakers including Thierry Boudinaud and Alberic Mazoyer. This gave him the inspiration to form his own wine company to make the wines he truly enjoys drinking, and on a sunny afternoon drinking Condrieu at the foot of the famous Chapel in Tain L’Hermitage, he promptly repaid his then employers’ generosity by resigning. Returning to Australia he formed Tim Smith Wines, producing the first vintage in 2002.
Since then he has worked as a Winemaker at St Hallett, Tatachilla and Chateau Tanunda. Tim has also worked on numerous Northern hemisphere vintages, most notably in Portugal’s Alentejo region with Cortes de Cima and Azamor and in France with Chapoutier and Gabriel Meffre.
He chose God’s-Own-Barossa as his home, on account of its dream combination of the right region and the right varieties. Within this region, old vine Mataro, Grenache, Shiraz and Riesling are found in small pockets, and Tim turns these ‘gardens’ into something special. A combination of age old varieties and clones, plus the myriad of soil structures and elevations within this famous region, makes it a winemakers’ playground.
All Tim Smith wines are made with small select parcels of high quality fruit and are made in small batches of 250-700 cases. The mantra for the brand is that if it does not bear the Tim Smith ‘Thumbprint’ then it is does not meet the quality standard.
We’re committed to ensuring environmental, community and economic sustainability at TSW.
That’s why Tim has gone back to school today to ensure we’re up to scratch and learn how and where we can improve.
While we already practise sustainability in every possible aspect of our wine business, there is always the capacity to do better.
Looking forward to today’s learnings and pursuing our SWA certification!
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Tim `Blue Steel` Smith has touched down in #Brisvegas for an epic week of lunches, dinners and #BarossaBeConsumed.🍷
Tickets are still available to the davisandwhitewine TSW Long Lunch at modatapasbrasabar tomorrow and Be Consumed at brisbaneshowgrounds on Saturday - check out the FB event pages for details.
And if you spot Smith in the wild, don`t be afraid to ask for a display of a few more of his modelling poses!🕺🤳
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We are chomping at the bit to get back on the road for Barossa. Be Consumed! 🏍
After way too long, we`re getting the convoy 🚙🚛🚌🛴 back together and setting our sights on Melbourne once more - and Brisbane for the very first time!
More than 40 of the Barossa`s best wineries and more, all in one spot. It doesn`t get much better than that! 🍷
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Can`t wait to bring two of Barossa`s best musos together for #ShedDayUnplugged in just over two weeks!
Joe Ahern and Steve Angel. What a couple of #locallegends hey!
Will you be joining us on the lawns on April 23?
Tag a mate you want to have a drink with!
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2022 MGS, Grenache & Mataro by timsmithbarossa
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If you don`t mind a bit of lawn porn, you`re gonna love what Tim`s done with the place 🌱
Join us 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 for the 2022 vinevalewinemakers Shed Day; miss it and you`ll have to wait a whole year!
📌 steinbornerreynolds hartofthebarossa cherylheidenreich kurtzfamilyvineyards cirilloestatewines amantipizza_ barossawines mybarossa
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😅 Here we are, Vintage 2022, 10 weeks later.
Josh tipping the last bin of the Old Vine Eden Valley Shiraz into the destemmer. 🍇
Now, what would be your celebration drink of choice? 🍷
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