Peter Kelly

Career Peter Kelly is Chief Winemaker at Thorn-Clarke Wines in Angaston, South Australia. The role sits within a long practical memory of how wines earn attention: through repetition, bottle movement, and the kind of demand that shows up before the stock room can keep pace. While a winemaking student working part time at Supacellars, later to become Fassina Fine Wines, on Glen Osmond Road in Parkside, he watched new wines come through with force. They collected “accolade after accolade,” and the shop struggled to keep enough on hand — an early lesson in how reputation can build quickly when a wine lands with trade and drinkers alike. That same pattern has returned for Kelly with fresh momentum. “Fast forward 20+ years and we are feeling the buzz again with our Shotfire Collectors Heritage Shiraz.” The line reads as the view of someone who has seen market heat before and recognises it again in a newer release. “Quite the thrill to be involved with something that is both nostalgic and forward thinking.” For Kelly, the appeal lies in a wine that carries memory without being trapped by it, and that can move with confidence into the present.

Signature

Peter’s signature dishes include Shotfire Shiraz, Shotfire Collectors Heritage Edition Shiraz, and Shotfire Collectors Heritage Shiraz. Taken together, they show a winemaking line built around the Shotfire name and the added reach of the Collectors Heritage editions. They also sit within the same framework Kelly describes elsewhere: wines that gather attention, move quickly, and leave a mark through demand as much as through release.

In Their Words The detail is in the trade floor rhythm: bottles arriving, shelves turning over, and a shop that could not hold enough inventory for the interest coming through. For Kelly, that moment clarified how standing grows around a wine — not from one event, but from repeated recognition, pressure on supply, and the way praise compounds. “Fast forward 20+ years and we are feeling the buzz again with our Shotfire Collectors Heritage Shiraz.” This is continuity, but not repetition for its own sake. The phrase places present work against earlier experience and shows the value of having seen a cycle before. In that setting, the wine is not framed as sentiment; it is framed as a release that carries history and still moves with current force.