Quandong Farm Shiraz

Quandong Farm Shiraz is a single vineyard wine that aims to highlight the intensity and brightness of fruit grown using biodynamic techniques. Our farming practices are designed to produce wines of intensity, but also with layers of texture, flavour and interest for the consumer. We think this wine exhibits these characteristics and provides both concentration and flavour and a certain delicacy, rather than simple raw power.

• RegionMcLaren Vale, South Australia
• Vintage2023
• TypeRed Wine
• VarietyShiraz
• Variety Composition

  Organic | Biodynamic

• Vegan Friendly✔
• Organic Wine✔
• Volume750ml
• Alcohol Volume14%
• PH

  3.73

• Standard Drinks8.3
• Acidity

  5.21

• Sugar

  2.9

• ClosureScrewCap
• Vintage Notes

  Low and slow. The 2023 growing season was a time for viticulturalists to show off their impressive skills. From a cold and wet, seemingly never-ending winter to a Spring which seemed like it was still winter, a long, cool Summer which seemed like Spring, challenges were abound. Numerous climatic challenges including cool and windy weather during flowering, one of the wettest Springs for 30 years and even more windy weather in Summer meant that crops were small but our organic and biodynamic farming methods paid off — our vines showed incredible resilience to whatever came their way. A season that was around three weeks late on average and had a much slower ripening period means that 2023 wines show great acid, complex layers of delicate flavours, lightness, brightness, and longevity.

• Colour

  Hot flush

• Bouquet

  This wine is an aromatic feast for the senses. The is a heady scent of musk, boysenberry, and purple fruit straps, accented by fragrant notes of juniper, rosemary blooms, and a hint of sandalwood incense. There are also subtle hints of candy characters from the bunches used during fermentation, adding complexity and depth.

• Palate

  Rich flavours of boysenberry, plum, and black cherry mingling with hints of savory spice and a subtle earthiness. There's a dancing brightness to this wine, which belies its incredible depth of flavour concentration without being inky or heavy. The powdery tannins are firm yet velvety, like the soft glow of embers in a fire pit, and the finish is long and satisfying, with a subtle hint of juniper and rosemary lingering on the palate.

• Peak Drinking / Cellaring Potential

  GOOD: Now - BETTER: 2027 - MAX: 2037

• Vinification

  Grapes were hand picked and selector harvested at optimum flavour and sugar equilibrium. 40% was used as whole bunches while the remainder was delicately destemmed and fermented using 100% indigenous (wild) yeast. The small batch open ferments were carefully plunged and pumped over for 10-15 days to extract colour, flavour and tannin structure, then pressed to new and mature French oak puncheons, where they were nurtured for 12 months prior to blending and bottling.

• Winemaker

  Ashleigh Seymour

• Music Match

  Rip Tide — Vance Joy