The 8 Acres vineyard was planted in 1892 and sits just below the 4 Acres vineyard beside the driveway up to the winery. The vine orientation is north-south, perpendicular to the 4 Acres vines, and the vineyard produces a different style of wine altogether. The fruit is handpicked and sorted in the vineyard before fermentation takes place in open-top vats with 15% whole bunches. After fermentation, the wine is matured for 14 months in a one-year-old 2700L French oak cask.
Winemaker tasting note
The most vivid, almost electric purple hue, with more density of colour compared to 4 Acres. It is a rounder, darker fruited style with a wider shape on the palate. Fleshy and juicy up front, followed by an underlying core of spice that runs through the palate and with a fresh acidity and savoury tannin, that gives the wine its length.
“The 2024 8 Acres Shiraz is the most aromatic of the four single-site Shirazes from 2024, and it leads with pomegranate, blood orange, hints of crushed coffee grounds, satsuma plum and allspice. In the mouth, the wine is fine, light and verging on ethereal (in the context of Shiraz), and it reconfirms why I so love these wines. With the finesse of Pinot Noir and yet eminently well-suited to the terroir, these old-vine Shiraz wines—these vines planted 1892—show us the elegance and detail possible with this variety. There are really very few wines like them in Australia.” 96/100 The Wine Advocate
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