Layer Cake One Hundred Percent Hand Crafted Shiraz

Winemaker Notes For our Shiraz we pull from vineyards in McLaren Vale and the Barossa Valley-from the sandy-soiled blocks on the sea coast of Gulf St. Vincent to the Terra Rosa-based tinyberried wind-blown rolling hills in the Barossa Zone. The microclimates give us a broad array of flavors to blend into a complex rich full wine. Vineyard Notes South Australia is arguably one of the top Shiraz-growing regions of the world. Within SA the McLaren Vale and the Barossa are the most diverse and historic sub-regions with vines dating back to the 1830s. The microclimates within these areas are what give Layer Cake Shiraz its complexity. The McLaren Vale is bordered on one side by water and the other by an ancient mountain range – Gulf St. Vincent and the Adelaide Hills in this case. The Vale is moderated in temperature by the sea as the warm air gets trapped in pockets of the undulating hills. These blocks have deeper soils and produce wines with big mouth-filling fruit. The Baro