THE HOLY TRINITY VINEYARD

Located at the southern end of the Barossa Valley, just north of the town of Lyndoch, The Holy Trinity vineyard provides fruit for Grant Burge's GSM of the same name. Typical of the Barossa, there are some wonderfully ancient examples of fruit-bearing vines here. The oldest, dry grown bush vines in The Holy Trinity vineyard are up to 110 years old.

(photo taken February 2011)

OLD BUSH-VINE GRENACHE

Old bush-vine grenache at Turkey Flat's vineyard in the Barossa Valley.

MAGILL ESTATE VINEYARD

Penfolds' 5.2 hectare Magill Estate vineyard, complete with the sprawl of Adelaide's suburban housing in the background. This site was once much larger than it is today, but Penfolds controversially sold off a section of the original vineyard in 1982. Interestingly enough, the first modern incarnation of Magill Estate Shiraz came from the 1983 vintage.

WENDOUREE VINEYARD

There are few more apt terms for the Wendouree vineyard than 'national treasure'. Originally planted in 1892 just 3km south of Clare, this ancient vineyard has produced as many deeply flavoured, powerful and most of all long living expressions of Australian wine as any other. Thank heavens it's still in good hands!

p.s. if you do venture down Wendouree Road towards this extremely significant vineyard, just be sure to keep an eye out for rabbits!

LLOYD SHIRAZ VINEYARD

These old vines occupying the terraced slopes adjacent Coriole's winery produce wines of outstanding depth and flavour.

ST PETERS VINEYARD

Seppelt's St Peters vineyard, located in the Victorian town of Great Western on the main highway from Adelaide to Melbourne. You can make out the rather large Seppelt winery in the background. The St Peters Shiraz usually incorporates fruit from two other vineyards in addition to the St Peters; the Imperial and the Police.

(photo taken June 2008)