Place: Rayner Vineyard - McLaren Vale, SA

Variety: Shiraz

Farming: Organic

Bondar is a family winery making wines from regions McLaren Vale and Adelaide Hills. Their home is the iconic Rayner Vineyard in McLaren Vale and their desire is to make bright, layered and intriguing wines.

This exceptional Shiraz is drawn from the two oldest blocks in the Rayner Vineyard, planted in 1950. Three-quarters of the fruit comes from Block 24 in the northeast corner of the vineyard, on deep sandy soils with ironstone rocks, dry-grown and organically managed. This portion gives wonderful fragrance and elegant structure. The remainder is cropped from Block 1, in the northwestern corner of the vineyard, laying in a cool gully. Dry-grown and organically managed, the shallow clay on the limestone base builds fine structure around the prettier, fleshier sandy portion.