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The Story
As Shiraz is to our 1860 vines plantings, so Marsanne is to our 1927 vines; producing distinctive, single vineyard releases from vines that are amongst the oldest of that varietal in the world.
The fruit for the ‘1927 Vines’ releases is harvested early at high natural acid levels, with the resultant wine ‘water white’ and having almost no flavour.
Once bottled the magic then happens over time as it evolves into a wonderful, textural, minera...
Wine Information
The first overland route from Melbourne (Port Phillip) to Sydney (Port Jackson) from 1836 to 1843, passed through the land now known as Tahbilk (Melbourne itself was first settled in 1835).
In 1860 (ironically the same year that Phylloxera was first observed in France) Melbourne businessmen, including John Pinney Bear (whose family later took control of the Estate), formed a company to create a vineyard on the Goulburn River, with the grand...