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Kies Family Wines, 1303 Barossa Valley Highway, Lyndoch (2026)

31/08/2026

Father’s Day is THIS SUNDAY and I am getting lots of questions, so I thought I would pop everything in one place for you!

1. Can we just rock up on Sunday?

Unfortunately, no.

We have sold all 600 tickets and we now have another 100 people on the waiting list, so only guests with a valid ticket will be able to enter the event on Sunday.

On that note, if you have tickets and you are no longer able to make it, PLEASE let us know.

There are lots of families on the waiting list who would absolutely love to come, so just send us an email at events@kiesw**es.com.au and we can help get those tickets to someone else.

2. What happened to the kids’ footy oval?

Okay, please forgive me on this one 😂

We have recently had major works done to our wastewater system and unfortunately the area where I was planning to make the kids’ footy oval has been dug up.

The ground just isn’t flat enough anymore for it to safely work.

So instead of me wandering around with a line marker attempting to create a footy oval… we have called in the professionals.

Our little footy oval has officially been upgraded to a full-on Footy Clinic hosted by Nexus Edge, who will be running footy activities for the kids throughout the day.

Honestly, probably an improvement on my original plan 😂

3. What else is there for the kids?

Quite a bit!

Along with the Nexus Edge Footy Clinic, we have added some Challenger Golf holes and croquet on the lawns, our usual lawn games, plus a soft play area for our littlest guests.

I really wanted there to be plenty for the kids to do so Mum and Dad might actually get a chance to sit down, have something to eat and enjoy a glass of w**e.

There should be something for everyone from the tiny ones right through to the bigger kids.

4. Does my ticket reserve a table?

No. Your ticket is entry to the event rather than a table reservation.

There will be plenty of seating around the venue, and we will also have seating stewards around the grounds to help you find a magical little spot to settle in for the day.

And honestly, there really isn’t a bad one on the lawns. You’ve got the vines, gardens and music around you and plenty of beautiful spots to choose from.

You are also very welcome to bring along a picnic rug or camping chairs.

So please don’t stress about racing through the gates to find a table. Come in, have a wander, let our team help you find somewhere lovely and settle in for the day.

5. Will there be bag searches?

As part of our liquor licence requirements for the event, we will have security at the entrance conducting bag searches as you come in. It is simply part of what we need to do to keep everyone safe and meet our licensing requirements for an event of this size.

Having your tickets ready and scannable on your phone, and your bags easy to access for security, will be a great help!

6. Can we still do a w**e tasting?

Absolutely!

Our Cellar Door will still be open for w**e tastings throughout the day, available on a first come, first served basis.

So while you’re here, pop in and taste your way through some Kies w**es — and maybe pick Dad up a bottle of his favourite w**e or port to take home for later!

It is Father’s Day after all.

7. What’s happening during the day?

LOTS!

Joe Ahern will be playing live from 11am–2pm, followed by The Cutters from 2pm–5pm.

And we need to say a HUGE thank you to Nitschke Chaff and Freight, who have very kindly lent us a stage for the event so everyone will actually be able to see our wonderful musicians performing throughout the day!

We are so, so grateful for their generosity and support in helping us make the day that little bit more special.

We’ll also have the Nexus Edge Footy Clinic, Challenger Golf, croquet and soft play, plus our Father’s Day food, Kies w**es, cocktails, b**r, coffee and plenty more happening around the grounds.

8. Can we bring our own food and drinks?

No BYO food or alcohol please.

There will be plenty of food and drinks available to purchase throughout the event.

9. What about parking?

We will have our team helping with parking on the day, so please just follow their directions or signage when you arrive.

10. How is this all going to work?

There is a LOT happening behind the scenes - as per usual at our place lol 😂

We run big days like this regularly and have welcomed thousands of people through the gates during events like Gather Round, so our team is very used to making days like this happen.

We want Sunday to feel less like you’ve simply arrived at the w**ery on a busy Sunday and more like you’re coming to a proper little Father’s Day festival in the Barossa, so you can actually relax.

So I am putting together a full Father’s Day Festival Guide for you before Sunday.

It will have a map of the grounds, where to order your food, w**e, b**r, cocktails and coffee, where all the kids’ activities are, Footy Clinic times, the live music schedule, toilets, seating areas and basically everything you need to know.

You’ll be able to have a look before you arrive, get your bearings and know exactly what’s happening throughout the day. Ticket holders watch your email this week 😉

And finally, we just want to say thank you.

600 of you have chosen to spend Father’s Day with us, with another 100 people currently on the waiting list.

We are just so, so humbled that you have trusted our family to be part of such a special day with yours.

We know Father’s Day is one of those days where you could choose to be anywhere, and the fact that so many of you have chosen to spend it here at Kies means an enormous amount to us.

We have put so much thought into Sunday and we cannot wait to welcome you, pour you a w**e, feed you, entertain the kids, play you some great music and hopefully give your family a really beautiful Father’s Day together in the Barossa.

Thank you for trusting us with your day.

We’ll see you Sunday. ❤️

Jesse & the Kies Family x

28/08/2026

Seven years ago today, we broke ground on our w**ery... 😱 Where has that time gone?

It's pretty incredible looking at the photos now.

Just dirt, a few bits of metal sticking out of the ground and a fairly enormous plan for what was going to sit on top of it.

My brother Bronson finished his w**emaking studies in 2018, and during his time at university he had already started planning the w**ery he hoped our family would one day build.

By 2019, we were actually building it, with the goal of having it finished just in time for vintage 2020.

And when Bronson planned the w**ery, there were three things at the heart of it:

Safety. Functionality, hygiene & w**e quality. And marketing...

1. Safety

This one has a bit of family history behind it.

After fermentation, w**emakers need to remove the grape skins left inside red fermenters. Traditionally, this can mean someone physically entering the tank to dig those skins out.

The problem is that CO₂ can build up inside w**e tanks, making entering them potentially very dangerous.

My Dad still tells the story of his own father being overcome by gas inside a w**e tank.

Dad, as a young child, found himself holding his father's lifeless body as he hung inside the tank.

Thankfully, Grandpa survived.

But it's a story our family has never forgotten.

So when Bronson was choosing the equipment for our new w**ery, he chose red fermenters with conical (sloping) bottoms, making it possible to dig the skins out from the bottom without having to enter the tanks.

For Bronson, it was incredibly important.

If there was a safer way to make w**e, that's how he wanted to do it.

2. Functionality, hygiene & w**e quality

Then there was the actual job of making really good w**e.

Bronson wanted a w**ery that was functional during the craziness of vintage, easy to keep incredibly clean and gave him as much control as possible over every ferment.

Each tank has its own cooling jacket, allowing Bronson and our w**emaking team to control temperature and keep our ferments low and slow.

Each tank has its own pump for pump-overs.

There's stainless steel everywhere because it's easy to clean and sanitise, helping prevent unwanted bacteria from getting anywhere near our w**es.

Even the floor was carefully planned.

It has a gentle slope towards the centre of the w**ery, with a drain running straight down the middle, allowing water to drain away easily when everything is being washed down.

They're probably things most people would never notice when they walk into our w**ery.

But during vintage, they make an enormous difference.

3. And then there was marketing…

This is probably my favourite part of the story.

One of the most expensive parts of building the w**ery was the catwalk system that allows our w**emaking team to access the tops of the tanks for things like pump-overs.

If we'd wanted to build the w**ery as cheaply and simply as possible, the obvious design would have been tanks down either side with one catwalk running through the middle.

But Bronson had a vision.

He wanted a huge open w**ery floor.

Because even back then, he imagined that one day we'd move everything aside and hold events right there amongst the tanks.

I'm not sure any of us quite understood at the time just how important that decision would become.

Fast forward to today…

Our w**ery has become one of the most incredible event spaces at Kies.

It's been home to our 40th Birthday celebrations, Deer Stalker launches, and some incredible private events...

And I genuinely nearly cry sometimes when I stand in that w**ery, serving w**e to a room full of people and look up at those enormous K I E S letters across the tanks.

Because I remember when it looked like this.

Just dirt.

Seven years later, that patch of dirt is a working w**ery, an event space and, most importantly, the place where our beautiful Kies w**es are made by my brother, Bronson Kies, sixth generation of the Kies family.

He finished university in 2018.

We broke ground in 2019.

The w**ery was ready just in time for vintage 2020.

And somehow, seven years have passed since that first patch of dirt was turned.

Pretty amazing what can happen in seven years. ❤️🍷 Thank you for all your support along the way 🙌 If you have been add your photos in the comments, we would love to see you enjoying it too! 👇👇👇

24/08/2026

One of the many benefits of staying at Barossa Shiraz Estate is having experiences like Kies Family W**es just minutes away.

Nestled among the vines, this sixth-generation family w**ery offers a welcoming cellar door experience where guests can discover beautifully crafted w**es while learning about the family's rich Barossa heritage.

Enjoy a tasting, stay for lunch and soak up the relaxed atmosphere that has made Kies a favourite with locals and visitors alike.

The perfect addition to your Barossa getaway.

Looking for more local recommendations? Visit our website and discover some of our favourite places to eat, drink and explore during your stay in the Barossa 🍇

https://www.barossashirazestate.com.au/things-to-do

23/08/2026

Can we please give Lilli big love for her upcoming wedding 💍

22/08/2026

When I turned 21, I was given the Port keg my Grandpa Ken had made for me when I was a little girl.

Grandpa had passed away by the time I was old enough to take it home, but years earlier he had filled three little kegs, one for me and one for each of my two brothers.

They sat safely on a shelf, waiting for us to grow up.

And in the middle of winter I can stand at my bar on a cold winter's night, turn the little tap on a keg he handled some 30 years ago, pour myself a Port and know that he made this for me when I was just a kid.

It's a family heirloom in every sense of the word.

It just happens to be the sort of heirloom you get when you're born into a w**e family. 😂❤️🍷

Truth be told, in my younger years I didn't appreciate it quite as much and I actually let it dry out. 😬🫣

These days though, I almost look forward to winter and having a Port from Grandpa's keg in my perfect little Port glass.

The problem is, I get to this point in winter and start knocking on the front of it to work out where the level is...

And I'm always ASTONISHED by how much we've apparently “enjoyed” over the colder months. 😂

Yesterday a customer asked me a question about his own Port keg and suddenly I thought, oh gee, mine needs topping up too.

So this month's w**e allowance is going on Tawny. 😂🍷

And then I had another thought...

I struggle SO HARD to buy for my Dad every Father's Day.

Surely there are dads all over the country with half-empty Port kegs, and sons and daughters wondering what on earth to buy them.

That's how our Tawny & Fudge Father's Day Pack came about.

And you guys have gone absolutely nuts for them. 🙏🙏🙏

Poor Julie from Barossa Fudge has been working overtime keeping us supplied because we've now sold more than 250 packs!

Then we thought about the dads whose keg needs a little more than the 2L top-up... 😂

So we've now put together a 5L Special Keg Blend with Barossa Fudge for the serious keg owners.

I'll pop a photo and a link in the comments. 🙏❤️🍷

And I really do need to say a huge thank you for supporting our little family business.

If you've ever met Jessie in our Cellar Door, the other day she packed 70 Tawny & Fudge packs by herself. SEVENTY. 😱😂

It's a lot of bottles, a lot of fudge, a lot of boxes and an extraordinary amount of sticky tape.

But our team have been so positive and happy to do it, knowing that every box they're packing is going to somebody's Dad. 🙏

So thank you for keeping Julie making fudge, Jessie packing boxes and all of us very, very busy. ❤️

Now, I feel like every keg in every home is super special - does yours have a great story? I know there are heaps that do because we are lucky enough to hear them in the cellar door every day!

I would absolutely love to hear your story below - I'm staying home tonight so I'll be here reading them with a little nip of port 🙏🍷❤️👇

21/08/2026

What a beautiful part of the world to live in 🙏

Happy Friday everyone 🍷

18/08/2026

Over the last few months, we’ve had an email here and there letting us know that one of our w**es has picked up an award, a medal or a great review.

Each one has been pretty exciting.

But today we actually sat down and put all of the results together… and I mean... What?! 😂

They are seriously impressive.

As a team, we know our w**es are excellent. We drink them daily 😬🍷🤣, we serve them every day and we see how much our customers love them.

But when that is backed up again and again by different independent w**e shows and reviewers, it really does mean something.

So, here’s what has been rolling in lately:

🏆 2023 Cheers to You Sparkling Shiraz
*Gold Medal & Trophy Winner* – 2025 Great Australian Shiraz Challenge

🍷 2024 Chaff Mill Cabernet Sauvignon
*94 Points* – The Vintage Journal
*88 Points, Bronze* – The Real Review

🌸 2026 Spring Rosé Shiraz
*92 Points* – The Vintage Journal
*87 Points, Bronze Medal* – 2026 Royal Queensland W**e Awards

🍷 2024 The Suit Cabernet Sauvignon
*90 Points* – The Real Review

🍷 2023 The Suit Cabernet Sauvignon
*90 Points* – The Real Review
*Double Gold Medal* – CWSA 2024

🍷 2024 Klauber Block Shiraz
*90 Points* – The Vintage Journal
*88 Points, Bronze* – The Real Review
*Silver Medal* – ANZ BWA 2025

🥂 2026 Heysen Gold White Frontignac
*90 Points* – The Vintage Journal

🍷 2022 Dedication Shiraz
*89 Points, Bronze* – The Real Review

🥂 2024 Hill Block Riesling
*86 Points, Bronze* – The Real Review

🥂 2026 Shepard Vuk White Shiraz
*85 Points, Bronze Medal* – 2026 Royal Queensland W**e Awards

When you actually see it all written down like that… far out, Brons.

So, to my brother Bronson, a massive, massive congratulations.

Behind your back, I regularly refer to you as a fussy w**emaker and a mad scientist. 😂

But honestly… thank God you are.

I could never do what you do.

There is something really special about seeing the fruit grown on our family estate, being treated with so much care and respect and turned into the very best w**es you can possibly make.

But I think there’s something else that makes Bronson a little different.

Before he was our w**emaker, he spent 10 years in the Cellar Door.

He knows our customers.

He knows exactly what people love about the Deer Stalker. He knows the birthdays, weddings and Christmases celebrated with a bottle of Sparkling Tina. He knows the big Barossa reds people reach for on a cold winter night.

And I genuinely think that’s part of the reason our customers connect with these w**es so much.

They are made for them. Precisely.

So congratulations, Brons. We are incredibly proud of you.

And a massive thank you to every single person who chooses Kies W**es. Whether you’ve been drinking them for 30 years or discovered us last weekend, you are the reason we get to keep doing this.

You put a smile on our faces every day.

And here’s cheers to the next generation of little Kies kids already running around these grounds… who might one day be growing the grapes, making the w**e and welcoming the customers themselves. ❤️🍷

Congratulations, Uncle Brons. You are a mad scientist, in the very best way possible. 🤣🙌

16/08/2026

🎵 Making love to his tonic and gin 🎵
Or Barossa Shiraz 🤪🍕🍷

13/08/2026

Accidentally called Mum crazy on national TV this morning 😂

And I stand by it, in the very best possible way.

The kind of crazy that never likes saying no to a booking… which may have had something to do with growing a little family business into one that now welcomes around 69,000 people through the doors each year.

The kind that had an idea for a beautifully fruit-driven Barossa red, kept growing it for 23 years, and gave us The Deer Stalker we know and love today.

And the kind that has always believed great food and w**e doesn’t have to be fancy. It just needs to be generous, welcoming and something people genuinely enjoy.

So perhaps “crazy” wasn’t quite the word I was looking for on national television this morning 😂

But Mum has always had a wonderful way of following her instincts, doing things her own way and making people feel at home while she does it.

And Kies probably wouldn’t be Kies without a little bit of Tina crazy. ❤️🍷

09/08/2026

Gee what a difference three months makes 🙏

Dad reckons this creek hasn't run since 2016 - just a cool 10 years ☺️

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