Barossa’s Old Vines: A Living Link to the Past
Featuring two curated 6-packs from the region’s most revered vineyards, celebrating Old Vine Day on 1 August 2025.
Barossa is home to some of the oldest continuously producing vines on the planet — a fact that shapes not just the region’s wines, but its entire identity. While many wine regions measure vineyard age in decades, Barossa counts by generations. Some vines here were planted in the 1800s and are still producing fruit of astonishing intensity and character.
In 2009, the Barossa Old Vine Charter was established to formally recognise vineyards by age. It’s not just a label — it’s a legacy.
- Old Vine: 35 years or older
- Survivor Vine: 70+ years
- Centenarian Vine: 100+ years
- Ancestor Vine: 125+ years
The Charter honours those who’ve preserved these precious vines and promotes their importance to Barossa’s wine story. As these vines age, they produce lower yields, but with greater concentration, structure and complexity — a winemaker’s dream.
To celebrate this living heritage, we’ve brought together two exceptional 6-packs that showcase fruit drawn exclusively from vineyards formally recognised under the Barossa Old Vine Charter.
The Legacy Collection
For the curious drinker. A compelling journey through variety, vineyard and vine age.
$384
This 6-pack spans all four vine age classifications, with wines drawn from vineyards over 35, 70, 100 and 125 years old. Featuring benchmark producers including John Duval Wines, Sons of Eden, Chaffey Bros. and Schwarz, it’s a tasting that travels across Eden Valley and Barossa Valley, from textural Semillon to layered Mataro.
Highlights include:
- Trophy winner Chaffey Bros. SALVIS GRATIA Semillon – Best Semillon in Show, Barossa Wine Show 2024
- 96 points, Sons of Eden Eurus Cabernet Sauvignon
- 95+ point scores across Grenache, Mataro and more from respected critics including The Real Review, Wine Orbit and Halliday
This pack is ideal for anyone seeking to understand how vine age shapes style, structure and flavour. The longer you spend with these wines, the more they reveal.
The Icon Collection
For collectors and lovers of powerful, cellar-worthy reds.
$583
Each wine in this set is drawn from the Barossa’s most revered vineyards — places that have weathered generations and continue to produce fruit of remarkable depth and provenance.
Featuring:
- 98 point Sons of Eden Romulus Shiraz
- 96 point Hobbs 1905 Centenarian Shiraz
- John Duval’s Annexus Grenache and Mataro, Schwarz Schiller Block Shiraz and Sons of Eden Eurus Cabernet — all scoring 95–96 points across top publications
These are benchmark Barossa red wines — rich, structured, and built to reward time in the cellar.
Why Old Vines Matter
Old vines don’t just yield concentrated fruit — they offer a connection to history. They’ve survived droughts, bushfires, vine pulls and the passage of time. Their roots stretch deep into the soil, pulling up stories as much as flavour. Winemakers often speak of them with reverence, noting how they seem to know what to do — self-regulating yields, ripening consistently, and expressing site with clarity and grace.
When you drink a wine made from old vines, you’re tasting something truly irreplaceable.
Take a deeper dive into the world of Barossa’s old vine wines — your glass will thank you.
The Barossa Old Vine Charter
Barossa is home to some of the oldest continuously producing vineyards in the world. In 2009, the Barossa Old Vine Charter was instituted to register vineyards by age, so that older vines could be preserved, retained and promoted.
Barossa Old Vine
These old vines have grown beyond adolescence and are now fully mature. They have a root structure and trunk thickness that encourages diversity of flavour and character. Their worthiness has been proven over many vintages, consistently producing the highest quality fruit for Barossa wines of distinction and longevity.
Barossa Survivor Vine
These very old vines are a living symbol of traditional values in a modern environment and signal a renewed respect for Barossa old vine material. They have weathered the worst of many storms, both man-made and naturally occurring, including the infamous 1980s Vine Pull scheme. A Barossa Survivor vine has reached a significant milestone and pays homage to the resolute commitment of those growers and winemakers who value the quality and structure of old vine wines.
Barossa Centenarian Vine
These exceptionally old vines serve as witness to Barossa’s resilience in the face of adversity. Barossa, unlike many other of the world’s great wine regions, is phylloxera-free, which allowed these vines to mature into their naturally-sculptured forms with thick, gnarly trunks. They have very low yields and can produce wines with high intensity of flavour. Planted generations ago, when dry-farming techniques required careful site selection, Centenarian vines have truly withstood the test of time.
Barossa Ancestor Vine
An Ancestor vine has stood strong and proud for at least one hundred and twenty five years – a living tribute to the early European settlers of Barossa. Their genetic material has helped to populate the region with irreplaceable old stocks that underpin the viticultural tradition. They tend to be dry-grown, low-yielding vines with great intensity of flavour, and are believed to be among the oldest producing vines in the world.
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