Henschke – Mount Edelstone Vineyard, Eden Valley Prue Henschke

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  • Henschke – Mount Edelstone Vineyard, Eden Valley

    Planted in 1912 by Ronald Angas – a descendant of one of South Australia’s founding families – the Mount Edelstone Vineyard is home to 114-year-old centenarian shiraz vines that are, by any measure, among the most significant in the country. Situated in the southern Mount Lofty Ranges at 400 to 600 metres elevation, the 16.76-hectare Eden Valley site produces a single wine: Mount Edelstone Shiraz, one of the longest consecutively produced single-vineyard wines in Australia, with the current 2022 release marking its 70th vintage. At its heart is a grape-growing philosophy built on organic and biodynamic principles (not certified), guided for the past four decades by viticulturist and botanist Prue Henschke. Working with deep, mineral-rich red clay soils and the site’s naturally high-vigour old vines, Henschke has steadily transformed the vineyard’s health and fruit quality through a layered program of regenerative farming, native biodiversity, and meticulous vine selection – all in service of a wine whose character is inseparable from the ground it grows in.

  • Stonegarden Vineyard, Eden Valley

    Located in the Eden Valley’s southeastern corner, a stone’s throw from Springton, Stonegarden Vineyard is a historic gem first planted from 1858. Under Glen Monaghan’s stewardship since 2015, this 20-hectare vineyard nurtures a diverse array of varieties including grenache, shiraz, cabernet sauvignon, riesling, muscat, mataro, and more, without herbicides, embodying a minimalist viticulture ethos. Stonegarden’s vines, over 165 years old, contribute to an impressive roll call of wines. Labels such as Stonegarden Wines, Chateau Tanunda, John Duval, Kellermeister, Head Wines, Eperosa, and Brothers At War showcase the vineyard’s grenache, with prices ranging from $65 to $500, underscoring the exceptional quality derived from this historic site.

  • Pewsey Vale Vineyard, Eden Valley

    Owned by Yalumba’s Hill-Smith family, the Pewsey Vale Vineyard is arguably Australia’s most famous riesling site. At meaningful elevation in the High Eden, its sweeping contour-planted vines are instantly recognisable from the iconic image that adorns the labels on the suite of wines, from the standard bearer to the aged release of ‘The Contours’ and a naturally fermented wine from the 1961 vines. Brooke Howell has been nurturing the vines at Pewsey Vale since 2010, with the old Contours Bock certified organic and the whole property managed with a sustainable mindset.

  • Henschke – Hill of Grace, Eden Valley

    Home to Australia’s most respected and expensive single vineyard wine, there is perhaps no more famous or revered vineyard in Australia than Henschke’s Hill of Grace. It is also home to some of this country’s oldest vines, planted by Nicolaus Stanitzki around 1860. That’s the year when the Gnadenberg Lutheran Church was built, which overlooks the vineyard and gives it its name –a region in Silesia, Gnadenberg roughly translates as ‘Hill of Grace’. With biodynamics, ancestral organic practices and an eye to regenerative agriculture, Prue Henschke is both nurturing the past and building resilience in the vineyard and enhanced native environment for the long-term future.

  • Garden & Field – Gnadenberg Road, Eden Valley

    Peter and Mel Raymond’s Garden & Field is a young vineyard planted to an old site, once the home to venerable vines that were cruelly plucked from the ground some 40 years ago. In the relative cool of the Barossa’s Eden Valley, the 4-hectare vineyard is a near neighbour to Henschke’s iconic Hill of Grace, with the focus on shiraz, across eight clones. The vines are dry grown and farmed in a sympathetic and regenerative manner, with soil health and biodiversity at the fore. With a little over a decade in vine age, the fruit has already contributed to a string of top Penfolds reds, as well as wines for the Raymonds own label.

  • Eden Hall, Eden Valley

    David and Mardi Hall bought their Eden Valley property in 1996, planting vines the following year. It was the site of an older vineyard, but the vines were uprooted in the 1970s. That old vineyard was made up of cabernet sauvignon, malbec and riesling, with the Halls planting both the former and latter again, along with shiraz, cabernet franc, merlot and viognier, with grüner veltliner grafted somewhat more recently. All fruit goes to the Eden Hall wines. Dan Falkenberg tends to the viticulture on the 33-hectare site, where he focuses on increasing biodiversity and reducing water use through revegetation and practices like mulching and planting mid-row swards of native grasses. Eden Hall is also independent of external inputs of water and electricity, being off grid since 2019.

Eden Hall, Eden Valley

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