Pictured above - Old Vine Grenache at Hillier
Pictured right - Torzi and Freeland in one of the vineyards lost
to villa rash, if you look closely you can see the scourge in the
background spreading across the hills face and beyond. |
We are forever on the lookout for old vine
material in the Adelaide Plains, so it was with great delight that
Domenic stumbled across a 50 year old planting along the banks of
the Gawler River. Truly a great example of old school viticulture,
planted and nurtured by the Manno family, we're delighted to
welcome it into the Old Plains family. There is also a good whack
of shiraz here aswell. Small berries and loose bunches, so
vintage twenty ten looks the goods.
Not all good news though, two of our previous old vine vineyards
have gone the way of the developer, soon to be villa rash (drinkster
term for housing), these
two small vineyards were at Munno Para West. Hardly iconic
territory, but we loved them none the less.
Sad to see them go, seems the local council views these blocks
like dominos, once one goes the rest will follow. Allegedly an
adjacent block was subdivide forcing the neighbouring vineyard to
be revalued as villa block, the council rate increase was
supposedly so huge, no amount of shiraz was going to cover the
increase.
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