The Story
The Graveyard Vineyard Shiraz was named after original plans for the site which was to be a cemetery within Pokolbin, however it was never used as such. The first single vineyard selection for the Graveyard Vineyard was in 1983.
Originally planted with Shiraz and Cabernet, the heavy clay soil resulted in vintages of low yield but with extraordinary concentration of flavour in the berries, providing a distinctive and premium wine style.
Wine Information
Understandably some excitement surrounding the release of this wine. Being awarded 98 points on Wine Front not long after bottling is high praise. Tasting the wine, it is easy to see why. A wine of great poise, sharing a pedigree with the celebrated 2018, 2014, 1998 and 1986 Graveyard vintages. This is a very, very good Shiraz. Our third consecutive wet year, La Nina continued to make herself known through the first three quarters of 2022, wit...
Vuosikerta 2021
2021 Barossa Valley Vintage Report
Following two particularly dry seasons, many were hoping for Mother Nature to be much kinder, and mostly she was. Winter rainfall in 2020 recorded 148mm, the same as winter 2019, (22% below average). The majority of this rainfall was in the latter half of August, with the rain continuing into September and October. This was ideal timing to replenish soil profiles to field capacity moving into budburst in O...