Ernest Schuetz Estate Wines in Mudgee, New South Wales | Winery/Vineyard

Ernest Schuetz Estate Wines

Locality: Mudgee, New South Wales

Phone: +61 402 326 612

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25.01.2022 Liquid gold! Thank you #mudgeehoney #mudgeeregion #freshproduce #beesofinstagram

24.01.2022 2017 Family Reserve Riesling is the perfect match for Aji de Gallina, a traditional Peruvian dish. The rice is cooked in a traditional clay pot and is so fluffy. Typical Riesling with true varietal expressions of lemon sherbet with piercing acidity. Salute

24.01.2022 Weve all been there....

23.01.2022 Let us know if you need assistance with making it through home schooling. We can direct you to one of our wonderful stockists or send out Mr Schuetz himself to home deliver in Mudgee!

22.01.2022 The next generation! Hannah Schuetz at the helm. #nextgen #mudgeewine #2018vintage #mudgeemerlot

22.01.2022 Shhhhh....dont show Mrs Schuetz!

21.01.2022 Remember: support local, buy direct or from your local independent bottle shop!

21.01.2022 Who needs Elf On The Shelf! This is more my style.

19.01.2022 August was a terrible month with 2 seperate fires that effected vineyards in the Mudgee region. Please keep watch!

18.01.2022 Mrs Schuetz at the cellar door!

17.01.2022 Merry Christmas and thank you for all of your support throughout 2020!

16.01.2022 Bubbles anyone?!

16.01.2022 Support a local farmer and pick your own cherries!

14.01.2022 Wine waddle anyone...

14.01.2022 Peak hour in Mudgee...

11.01.2022 +=Mudgee Our region is ready to share the love once again!

10.01.2022 In short absolutely brilliant! James Halliday gave it 94...& for me...even higher!

09.01.2022 Its Friday Flashback and we head to Cudgegong. Established in the 1850s and then submerged under Windamere Dam mid 1980s this was a village which retains many... memories. The Royal Hotel ( as originally named), a regular watering spot when you could be a visitor, but not a local to pubs on a Sunday. The sandstone school built in 1858 and Church, whose blocks exist in houses and gardens now around the district. Have a wonderful and relaxing weekend. Remember COVID - do the three! #mudgeeregion #cudgegong

09.01.2022 Mudgee has ‘sprung’ #mudgee #mudgeeregion

09.01.2022 Nothing like a decent drop of rain! #mudgeeregion #mudgeeguardian #mudgeetourism

09.01.2022 Mr Schuetz in his element....

08.01.2022 Hope to see everyone soon!

08.01.2022 800 different varietals from 70 different countries...booking my ticket now!

08.01.2022 Thanks for the shout out!

06.01.2022 Bottling....#mudgeewine #mudgeeregion #mudgeensw #mudgeewineries #mudgeered

06.01.2022 It’s Friday Flashback and we head to Cudgegong. Established in the 1850s and then submerged under Windamere Dam mid 1980s this was a village which retains many... memories. The Royal Hotel ( as originally named), a regular watering spot when you could be a visitor, but not a local to pubs on a Sunday. The sandstone school built in 1858 and Church, whose blocks exist in houses and gardens now around the district. Have a wonderful and relaxing weekend. Remember COVID - do the three! #mudgeeregion #cudgegong

06.01.2022 Cork tops hand dipped in Mrs Schuetz kitchen. 2015 Epica

06.01.2022 grew it.picked it. made it. bottled it. drank it. Its Moscato season!

05.01.2022 Dedicated to the cause! #winemaker #mudgeewineregion #mudgeensw #mudgeeregion #harvest2021 #redwine

04.01.2022 Whatever next....fairy floss flavoured wine??!!

04.01.2022 Of course Mudgee is on the list! See you after June 1st!

03.01.2022 MUDGEE makes the WORLDS top 10 emerging destinations list!!

03.01.2022 The Spoil of Their Labour This picture shows more than you see. It should not have grapes in it. The leaves should still be on the vine turning a glorious palat...e of Autumnal shades. What lead us to this? A crop that had the potential to be a superb vintage. It had on track fruit set despite being 50% lower in yield than good years, it was ripening with good flavour development and no disease. Drought, drought and more drought firstly. An agonisingly prolonged dry period of no precipitation. That is fine. We are in agricultural and you have to learn to dance with Mother Nature. Irrigation, for those lucky enough to have it, changes its management style. You adapt and move forward having learned to operate more efficiently. A bonus. When water in our dams and rivers becomes less available, you have to purchase water at a higher price. This precious commodity adds to your production costs but again, it is what it is. But then something else happened right at the 11th hour, just before Vintage - our harvest. Whilst the Country was in shock and a state of high anxiety, watching as we burned with ferocious and undiscerning intensity, whilst our dear friends in the RFS put their lives on the line to defend our homes and people, the smoke blew into our Valley. It blew in and it stayed for 2 months. A thick, suffocating, smothering blanket. We didnt think too much of it as Vignerons as you just deal with it and there are others a lot worse than us. Besides, we thought, smoke taint is only a problem late in the season at vraison when the grapes are ripening. Wrong. A shocking discovery by other regions ripening before us. The Hunter for one. This insidious smoke got into the little baby grapes and bound to a molecule called glycol. It stayed in there like a tumour. Grapes are picked, crushed and fermentation begins. Then bam, like a wicked genie released from a bottle, the fermentation process unlocked the smoke and drowned the once glorious fruit in a dirty ash tray taste. Millions of tonnes of fruit with no use. It looked perfectly fine, tasted delicious off the vine but the curse was inside. Some picked for cattle feed, a few tried distillation, but largely NOTHING COULD BE DONE. There was too much. Now look at that photo. Read between the vines, so to speak. You will see grief. We watched all our friends go through the stages. Shock, denial, anger, frustration, utter devastation and eventually acceptance. They rallied. Our MATES came together. They formed a taskforce, they were counselled, educated and supported by the Australian Wine Research Institute and Wine Australia. Specialist scientists looking after our own. The Smoke Taint Panel was formed with the most sensitive noses and palates in our region. Parcels of fruit were collected for analysis in Adelaide, our vignerons and Winemakers started tiny individual bucket ferments and the panel checked and double checked to see if anything could be saved and fermented though to some wine. Through much experience, skill, alchemy and some luck, a few parcels of fruit have made it. A testament to their dedication and perseverance. Largely though, most havent and even more are still sitting on the vine. It was never going to be. A yearly income gone. Jobs lost. Contractors left with pickers sitting sedentary. Cellar hands returned to their home country. Backpackers with no jobs. Production costs to pay, water bills to find money for and no wine in tanks and barrels this year to sell for future years, for future purchases at our cafes, restaurants, retail shops, real estate, holidays, nurseries, cars, tractors, butchers, newsagents, renovations... And then came Rona and took our tourism away. Our clients. Spirits broken? Almost. But WE are rallying. Adversity builds strength in character. You see this in agriculture more than most other industries. THAT IS WHY WE ARE HERE and WE HAVE WINE FOR YOU TO PURCHASE. The beauty of the fruit of our labour. It goes in a bottle every other year. It gets better with time even. Look at the picture again. You will see resilience, bravery, mateship and a region, OUR MUDGEE REGION saying, we will survive. We need YOU. We are humble enough to admit it. It is a raw, heartfelt request. Please, where you can, drink local, drink local to your home even as this is not our story alone, buy direct from the producer or a local business. Keep money coming into the regional communities. We were tainted, not jaded. Lets make a toast today to The Labour of Mudgee Love, The People, The Loss and The Perseverance.

03.01.2022 Straight from the tank. #mudgeeregion #mudgeewine #mudgeensw #mudgeewineries #redwine #winetasting

01.01.2022 Who got Mudgee??

01.01.2022 Let it rain....