Celebrating the rich German heritage of the Barossa Valley, the name Eisenstone comes from a blend of the German word for iron – Eisen and the English – Stone.
The name celebrates the Ironstone soils in which the vines grow and the stone used by the original German settlers to build much of the famous Barossa buildings that still stand to this very day.
Sub Regional Barossa Shiraz
Eisenstone creator and winemaker Stephen Cook concentrates on developing the greatest possible wine from one single area and one single grape type, Barossa and Shiraz, at a time when other Australian wineries are producing wine from a multitude of grape kinds and regions.
Cook secures special parcels of grapes from the ‘western ranges’ of the famous Barossa Valley which are renowned for producing fuller bodied, powerful wines with amazing depth of flavour and exceptional aging ability to make his wines released under the Eisenstone label. No more than 800 bottles of each wine are produced in any given vintage, each individually numbered.
Eisenstone consistently performs at awards and shows, in 2022 Eisenstone Wines was highest performing Gold Medal award winning winemaker from Australia. with six entries, six wins, receiving 5 Gold and 1 Platinum for his 2019 Vintages. If not enough his 2020 Hoffman Vineyard Shiraz received 99 points from Huon Hooke, with the rest of the range receiving 93 pts to 99 points.
Stephen Cook
‘I want to make the vineyards the story, not the winemaker’. Stephen Cook has been in the wine industry for decades but is the new kid on the block to winemaking, originally, making wine for home consumption, but 20 years later, Cook launched Eisenstone, producing Shiraz that showcases the not so subtle variations seen in wines from around the famous Barossa. The grapes from the various parcels are all the same way, so the only variable is the terroir of vineyard or subregion. And they are produced only in small volumes—three tonnes of grapes is the maximum, or about 2,500 bottles. Each bottle is individually labelled with its number.
