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Huge congratulations to Artisans of Barossa’s Purple Hands Wines for taking home not one, but TWO trophies at the 2021 Royal Adelaide Wine Show.

The 2019 Purple Hands Planta Circa Ancestor Vine Grenache trumped the Grenache classes to take home the trophy for Best Grenache in Show, plus the Governor’s Trophy for Best South Australian Red Wine in Show.

Six Origins follows in the footsteps of the hugely successful Grenache Project by the Artisans of Barossa.

Whereas the Grenache Project explored the influence of the winemaker on the flavour and character of Grenache, the Six Origins project will turn your attention to the influence of origin on Barossa wine.

The brief was a productive landscape design to complement a stunning cellar door and feed a world class restaurant. However, the special part was that this “garden” was embedded in the ethos of connection and collaboration – the backbone of success for Artisans of the Barossa.

Fun, facts and figures! Here's eight things you need to know about Artisans of Barossa.

Ten years ago you could not even give old vine grenache fruit away. Gnarled old vines that had survived more than a century of growing seasons were routinely ignored and passed over for young vine Shiraz, their glorious fruit often ending up in all kinds of generic blends, wasted.