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At Faber we seemed to have spent the last few months battling with a range of corporations and bureaucracies.  It’s not that we particularly want to, but these monoliths can be difficult to avoid – the banks, the shire, Telstra, Australia Post, Qantas, the tax office, any number of government departments. But our worst experience…

We get many questions about cellaring wines.  Let’s face it, we would all love to drag our mates downstairs into the cellar, light the candles, and sweeping through the cobwebs pull up in front of the row of dusty boxes of sixties Grange, eighties Bordeaux, and off to the side a neat collection of specialty…

There is a lot of interest in organic and preservative free produce.  Unfortunately there is also a lot of confusion about what these terms mean in practice.  What most people really want is produce that is healthy, and not tainted with toxins or undesirable chemicals. Organic compounds are those found naturally – dug up, drained,…

Our inspiration for this wine comes from Swan Valley legend Dorham Mann. Dorham makes a bone dry sparkling white wine from Cabernet Sauvignon. The naturally low acidity of Swan Valley grapes allows us to make a wine from early picked grapes that don’t need sugar sweetness to balance what would be a very high acidity…

Reserve has many meanings. We like “something reserved for future or special use…” Our Reserve Shiraz is our best wine, the best fraction from the best ferment from the best fruit – from our vineyard. For us, shiraz is the holy grail of Swan Valley winemaking. It is the ultimate application of winemaking craft to…

We like to describe our wines as handmade. Hand crafted. As the name Faber suggests – the work of a skilled tradesman. But what does this mean, this term that is so often hackneyed and abused? For us it can be interpreted literally. We planted our vines by hand, trained them, prune them, and pick…

The Swan Valley is one of Australia’s oldest wine growing regions. It has a strong tradition of fortified winemaking, with the star attractions being its liqueur style wines using muscat, verdelho, and pedro ximenes. These wines bear a lot of resemblance to the wonderful muscats and tokays of Rutherglen. We still have quite a few…

  May 1997 Purchased 15 acre property, Baskerville Swan Valley September 1998 Planted 2 acres shiraz, 1 acre chardonnay September 1999 Planted 1 acre verdelho, 1 acre cabernet sauvignon February 2000 Harvested first fruit – 1 tonne shiraz September 2000 Planted 1 acre brown muscat, 1 acre petit verdot January 2001 First release 2000 Swan…

Starting a new business is a bit like having a new baby – full of hope and promise. And at the birth a name is chosen that you trust is inspirational, meaningful, and will influence people’s perception of its recipient. The reason we started our wine business was because of our ability and experience in…