Let’s finish our tour of the Southern Hemisphere in South Australia.  Kilikanoon is located in the town of Penwortham, situated in the rolling hills of the Clare Valley, just a two-hour drive north through the much warmer Barossa Valley from...

2018 d'Arenberg Custodian Grenache, McLaren Vale 

The Battle of Bosworth 2018 Puritan Shiraz is bold and balanced, with  silky tannins, vibrant acidity, and a smooth, velvety texture. It is  natural, sulfite-free, and unoaked, allowing for the pure flavors of the  grapes to be fully...

Producer's Notes:  Located in the Seaview area of McLaren Vale, where there is only a few feet of topsoil over a hard shelf of chalk. The cuttings were planted as bush vines on thewestern slope of Hammerschlag’s property. Yields are low with...

PRIMA Notes:  The Footbolt Shiraz is packed with dark, savory fruit flavors, fermented in open-top vats, with some food treading still taking place, just like the old days.  The wine is aged in both new and used French oak barrels and finally...

Winemaker Notes:The 20 Rows Shiraz block was planted in 1962 on the Langhorne Creek flood plain, which is managed to receive late winter and early spring flood water from the Bremer River assisted by a series of channels and weirs. This is a special and...