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Wine Description
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
Winemakers' Comments
Looking back at the previous vintages, the lead up to 2006 mirrored that of
2003, except for a mere 60mm of rain in one downpour right in the middle of
winter. The actual vintage conditions were very similar from the heat through
to the low crops.
If the Hunter didn’t get that 60mm the rain would have matched winter 2002, with 120mm over six months. For July and August 2005 there was only two rains days, both in ...
