Quandong Vineyard , McLaren Vale

Viticulturist, Toby Bekkers.

Quandong Farm is situated in the Seaview district, one of the 5 recognized subregions of McLaren Vale to the north of the region. Vines were planted on a west-facing slope in 1996. The vineyard benefits from the cooling sea breezes that come off the Gulf St. Vincent on summer afternoons – even more so than the vineyards on the valley floor, in fact. Soils are shallow sandy loams over limestone.
Planting material was sourced from non-clonal stock taken from Paxton's Jones Block, a proven Shiraz performer just down the road from Quandong Farm. Vines are trellised to a single wire vertical shoot position and spur pruned. The canopy is managed closely to maximise grape quality. Some years this may involve shoot thinning, leaf plucking and bunch thinning as required.
Planted to approximately 17 hectares of Shiraz , only a fraction of that is used in the Mr Riggs wines. Quandong Farm is yet another superior site for Shiraz.

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