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The Coach House Block Shiraz comes from an estate-grown single vineyard near the tiny hamlet of Greenock in the Barossa Valley.
It is generous and supple whilst soft and approachable upon release. An ultra-rich, heady, mouth-filling Shiraz that combines balanced acidity and mid-palate texture.

Purchased by Two Hands in 2001, the Coach House vineyard (formally known as the Branson Coach House) produces exceptional Barossa Valley Shiraz, but one block amongst the 18 acres of the vineyard has continually proven to be special. Known affectionately internally by our team as Highway Block, this special block has consistently come up as Single Vineyard quality each vintage, during our blind-tasting barrel trials.

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VITICULTURE

VINEYARD LOCATION: Seppeltsfield Road, Greenock, Barossa Valley
GROWER: Team Two Hands
BLOCK: Highway Block
SURFACE: 5.4Ac
SOIL PROFILE: Deep grey-red loam containing coarse quartz and ironstone gravel over clay
Fertiliser contributed by our Scottish Highland Cattle to support nutrients through our soils
PLANTING ORIENTATION: North West to South East
ELEVATION: 256m
AVERAGE VINE AGE: 27 years
CLONE: 1127
PLANTATION DENSITY: 3 meter rows with 1.8 meter vine spacing
AVERAGE RAINFALL: 450mm
CULTURAL METHOD: Spur pruned over winter, straw mulch, and compost. Vertical shoot position trellising, hand picked

WINEMAKING

FIRST VINTAGE: 2006
CURRENT VINTAGE: 2021
AVERAGE PRODUCTION: 4 Barrels

Several small parcels from the Coach House vineyard were crushed and de-stemmed into open top fermenters and pressed once dry on skins, with an average time on skins of 10 days. All free run and pressings were combined in tank and then racked off to gross lees into barrel to go through malolatic fermantation. The wine was bottled with minimum fining and no filtration.

18 months in 20% new French oak hogheads. Always bottled in November the following vintage.

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