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Don Kyloh’s Home Block Shiraz
Viticulturalist: Don Kyloh
The late Don Kyloh’s Home Block on Blewitt Springs Road McLaren Flat is the source of the Shiraz. The Home Block has been reworked of recent years to rejuvenate these old vines adjacent to the house. The result has provided a bountiful crop that has ripened evenly with beautiful intensity and generous flavour.
Our friends at Paxton Viticulture provided the splash of Nero d’Avola required to complete the blend from fruit sourced from their Joines Block located adjacent to d’Arrenburg on Oliver’s Road McLaren Vale.
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Machine harvested to retain whole berries and keep pre-fermentation maceration to a minimum. A “less is more” approach to this style is the aim. Five-day skin contact time with gentle pump overs to wet the cap were used and keeping the temperature below 24C throughout. We were conscious that in a dry growing season over extraction can occur quickly and minimizing that as much as possible was very important. Six months in old French oak assisted in providing some polish to the finish