Spinifex Wines proprietors Peter Schell and Magali Gely have made their home in the Barossa Valley for over twenty years. They also have a strong French connection, both physically and philosophically with Magali’s family resident in the south of France, and Peter having worked vintages in Provence, the Languedoc, Bordeaux and Burgundy.
He has long been admired as a winemaker’s winemaker, hugely admired amongst his peers for a collection of wines that capture the essence of Barossa’s heritage grape varieties and the diversity of a remarkable wine landscape. Someone who has lived the Artisans creed of following your own path like few others. His wines were a revelation when they first came to light 20 years ago, and have served as pathfinders as the idea of Barossa wine evolved from one dominated by the establishment and big companies, to one defined by the produce of a brigade of small producers.