Place: Tooborac - Heathcote, VIC

Variety: Shiraz

Farming: Organic

Chef turned sommelier turned winemaker, Adam Foster is a man of many talents and has turned his attention to the vineyard where he crafts exceptional, Rhone-inspired wines of stature and finesse.

The Home Block High Density Vineyard sits at 400m elevation in a natural, north-facing amphitheatre next to our home in Tooborac. We noticed the site’s potential in 2015, and then after much planning, in 2017, we planted three shiraz clones – PT10, 2626 and Mt Langi – from east to west across 0.35 hectares. With only 75cm between each vine and 1.45m rows in between, the Home Block High Density Vineyard is currently the most southerly, high altitude and densely planted vineyard in the Heathcote region.

Words by Ned Goodwin, MW:

A wine that we should be proud of, at least those of us who consider Northern Rhône luminaries such as Jamet, Jasmin, Trollat and more recently, Gonon, as the inspirational pantheon. Sitting pretty, fresh and so bright in the mouth, inflections of lilac, iodine, blueberry, charcuterie and tapenade are pulled long and savoury by a chainmail of impeccably wrought tannins and juicy acidity.