Description
Planted in 1892 by Bert and Fred Kay, and the 37th vintage of Block 6 Shiraz as a single vineyard wine. Long held in high esteem as one of McLaren Vale’s finest Shiraz plantings, handpicked and fermented in original open top fermenters, Block 6 Shiraz is a wine of great strength, deep complexity and amazing vibrancy.
The Block 6 vineyard faces east and rows run north south with significant undulation. The vines are cane pruned with the canes wrapped onto the top wire of the low lying trellis. The present 1.5 hectares comprises a corner of red loam, some heavy clay in the middle of the block and gravelly alluvial soils on the lower side. The underlying “South Maslin Sands” geology is extremely complex containing layers of glauconite, limestone, sandstone and siltstone.
