Wine makers comments

The Cooking wines are made with gentle handling to preserve the delicate primary fruit and extract only soft tannins. Grapes are fully de-stemmed and gently crushed with some whole berries, then fermented in open concrete fermenters pumped over twice daily. Pressed in an airbag press when low Baume. Racked three times and matured, then lightly stabilised and filtered before casking.

Mature vines are strictly managed in the vineyard ensuring low yields of small berried fruit with intense flavours and tannins. All fruit is picked by machine at night to preserve flavour.

Cooking Wines

Elegre Cooking Wine is available in 15 litre casks in White and Red. They are GST free and Wet Tax free, making them available to you through your Foodservice Distributor without requiring a liquor licence, therefore making Elegre Cooking Wine very cost effective compared to using normal wine.

Elegre Cooking Wine is classed as a condiment as it is not a drinking wine. It’s sole purpose is for cooking and marinating. Our cooking wine is produced and manufactured locally with the best quality Australian grapes.

As per GST Food Guide:

Wine
Alcoholic = Taxable
Cooking (containing salt and marketed as cooking wine) = GST FREE
Non-alcoholic, carbonated = Taxable