The Laird Vineyard
Throughout the Barossa are a handful of vineyards with a reputation for producing full bodied and concentrated wines with remarkable balance and extraordinary longevity. These are the long living wines that built the worldwide reputation of Old Vine Barossa Shiraz.
The Laird is one of these rare vineyards. Nestled on a gentle south-east facing ampitheatre on the eastern side of a ridge separating the Seppeltsfield and Marananga appellations in the Barossa Valley. It produces wines of great depth of flavour, dimension and nuance, making it one of the most highly regarded of all vineyards in the Barossa.
The vineyard is planted on red and black clay soils, over an ironstone base intermingled with gravel and quartz
The Eastern block of red clay, enhanced by higher sunlight hours and later harvesting, offers up power and intensity with robust black fruit and tannins.
The Western Block of black cracking clay is shaded from the setting sun by the the vineyard's Western ridge and offers a more fragrant, elegant wine complemented by spice and earthy notes.
These red and black soils produce two distinctly different expresssions of Shiraz, that complement each other when blended to make The Laird.
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LOCATION: |
Barossa Valley |
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SUB-REGION: |
Marananga |
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VARIETIES PLANTED: |
Shiraz |
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VINE AGE: |
Planted 1958 |
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VINEYARD SIZE: |
5 acres |
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SOIL TYPE: |
Very dark heavy clay and red friable clay |
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ASPECT: |
South-easterly facing |
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TORBRECK WINES: |
The Laird |