Barossa Valley
The oldest producing vines on earth.
The Barossa has something no European region can claim: continuously producing vines planted in the 1840s, on their own roots. Phylloxera never reached South Australia, so while the louse destroyed and forced the replanting of virtually every vineyard in Europe and California, Barossa Shiraz simply kept growing. Those old vines yield tiny crops of intensely concentrated fruit. Just above the valley, the cooler Eden Valley grows some of Australia's finest Riesling — same region, entirely different wine.
Grapes grown here 5
What the region makes
Blackberry, liquorice, chocolate, mocha oak. Full-bodied and unapologetic.
Grenache, Shiraz and Mataro together. Redder-fruited, spicier, more lifted.
Bone dry, lime and talc, steely acidity that rewards a decade in bottle.
Worth knowing
The Barossa Old Vine Charter grades by age: Old Vine at 35 years, Survivor at 70, Centenarian at 100, Ancestor at 125.
Because phylloxera never arrived, many vines are ungrafted — growing on their own roots, as almost nothing in Europe does.
Try this region if you like full-bodied reds, and want to taste 180-year-old vines.
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