Bream Creek Lieblich Field Blend 2024 750ml

Brand: Bream Creek Vineyard

Release Name: Lieblich Field Blend

Wine Style / Type: Semi-Sweet (Off-Dry) White Field Blend

Varietal: Schönburger and Riesling (Co-Fermented Field Blend, Riesling from the Estate's 1974 "Old Vine" Planting)

Age: Vintage varies depending on current stock

Volume: 750ml Bottle

Alc / Vol (%): Not confirmed — please verify against the bottle label

Country: Australia

Region: East Coast Tasmania (Marion Bay)

Cask Type: Not Applicable — Co-Fermented Field Blend, Fermentation Vessel Not Publicly Detailed

Limited Edition: Yes (Very Limited Production — Genuinely Rare Variety and Blend Style, Successor to the Estate's Earlier "Unitus" Field Blend)

Award Winner: Not independently confirmed for this specific wine — Bream Creek as a producer is a multiple trophy-winning Tasmanian estate

Bream Creek Vineyard was planted in 1973 on Tasmania's east coast, overlooking Marion Bay and Maria Island, making it one of the state's oldest and pioneering vineyards. Originally planted mainly to Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon, the vineyard's focus shifted toward Pinot Noir after Fred Peacock purchased the property in 1990, alongside the first commercial Southern Hemisphere plantings of the rare German variety Schönburger. Now a 7.5-hectare estate suited to Tasmania's cool maritime climate, Bream Creek has built a strong reputation, particularly for its Pinot Noir, regularly earning high scores and trophies at major Australian wine shows.

Schönburger is one of the rarest grape varieties grown commercially anywhere in the world, and Bream Creek holds real pedigree with it — the estate planted one of the earliest commercial plantings of the variety in the entire Southern Hemisphere. This wine goes a step further by co-fermenting Schönburger together with fruit from the vineyard's own 1974 Riesling block, one of Bream Creek's original founding plantings, meaning the two varieties are grown, picked and fermented together as a genuine field blend rather than assembled after the fact. That traditional technique, paired with the "Lieblich" (semi-sweet) style — an old German term rarely seen used deliberately on Australian labels — makes this a distinctive, conversation-starting wine unlike almost anything else on the market. It's a strong pick for adventurous wine drinkers, collectors of rare and unusual varieties, or anyone wanting to introduce a genuinely different style alongside more familiar Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc offerings.