Plans for the new Vine Shed Venue & Cellar Door is underway with the anticipation of opening beginning of 2020 This UNIQUE Vine Shed Venue & Cellar Door will offer rustic charm and seating for up to 250 people. Built with a combination of recycled chunky timbers, brushed black metals, a combination of wooden & polished cement floors, wooden barn doors, large floor to ceiling windows overlooking estate vineyards new and older planted circa 1880. A large grassed area for BBQ`s and picnics lined with trees and Australian native shrubs and a picturesque water pond attracting bird life. The Vine Shed Venue will be DIY with the help of an event provider information package listing providers to make your celebration that much easier and a time to remember. An option for a set Vine Shed Venue Food & Beverage package will also be available. A Vine Shed Venue Beverage package will be made available which will be part of the DIY venue hire process. The Vine Shed Cellar Door will be by appointment only, serving our fantastic selection of wines. Food platters will be made available in the form of home grown produce and locally sourced produce. Home grown will be a combination of seasonal vegetables and herbs from the venues garden. Picnic and BBQ hampers will be available to purchase as well as a hire option for portable BBQ’s and picnic blankets to enjoy on the lawn area near the water pond. A secured children’s play area will be available which will provide hours of fun and entertainment while the adults enjoy their time. The area will contain jumbo games like connect four, Jenga, noughts and crosses, checkers, inflatable bowling, playground equipment and more… There will also be a snack bar on wheels with food and drinks available. Take a look at our 3D image video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huMFqwYhi1s We hope to see you all at the opening in 2020 Website; https://vineshedvenue.com.au

Great write up by Max Allen on our preservative free wines …. Food and Drink THE AUSTRALIAN Danial Conte’s McLaren Vale vineyard recreates a drop of Napoli magic   by: Max Allen From: News Limited October 18, 2014 12:00AM   THE idea came to winemaker Danial Conte during harvest at his family vineyard in McLaren Vale. As he plucked bunches of plump sugary grapes from the vines, Conte had a flashback to a moment on holiday last year in Naples. “I’ve always been a fan of fresh, fruity, vibrant young wines,” says Conte. “And at one of the best pizzerias in Napoli I tried a kicking house red: a current vintage wine with natural effervescence from the primary ferment. It was zippy, crisp and aromatic, and drinking it with the best margarita with bufala mozzarella and porcini I’ve ever had in my life — mamma mia!” With the spritzy flavour memories fizzing through his mind, Conte looked at his vineyard and wondered whether he could make a “vino fresco” or two that captured the freshness and vivacity of that house red in Napoli. He chose the moscato grape to produce a sweet sparkling white and the northern Italian red grape, lagrein, to produce a fruity, sweetish deep-purple bubbly. And then he worked fast: he wanted to get these two wines into bottle as soon as possible after harvest, essentially while they were still fermenting, so the carbon dioxide of the ferment would be trapped inside the bottle, giving the wine its crucial effervescence. What sets these two apart from almost every other sparkling moscato and sparkling red out there in wine land is the fact that Conte also decided to not add any sulphur dioxide as a preservative because, as he says, sulphites can have a “slight but evident masking effect (on flavour)”, and he was aiming for maximum freshness and character. He’s succeeded, too. Both of these new Conte Estate wines are terrific, quaffable examples of their respective styles, and I believe the lack of preservatives has indeed had a role to play in their deliciousness. The moscato is called Il Bacio d’Oro — kiss of gold — and, although it’s quite sweet, it makes a delicious aperitif with fried cheesy drinking snacks such as parmesan-crumbed artichokes. It’s not as pale and bright as other, more conventionally handled moscatos (indeed, it’s slightly cloudy) but it is bursting with character and flavour: like taking a bunch of freshly-picked, dawn-chilled, spice-scented muscat grapes and squeezing them on your tongue. The lagrein is called Lacrima di Terra — teardrop of the earth — and is a spectacular demonstration of one of this grape variety’s particular strengths: colour. The wine is a dense, vibrant purple — very ripe-looking, very enticing. And it’s full of purple fruit flavour, too: crunchy berries, luscious juiciness, balanced by lagrein’s fine, snappy tannin. It’s not too sweet, either, so it works well with savoury food: I really enjoyed it with some steak and garlic-and-herb-rubbed chook that had been grilled over charcoal. Both are a welcome addition to the growing number of excellent Australian preservative free wines.      http://www.theaustralian.com.au/executive-living/food-drink/danial-contes-mclaren-vale-vineyard-recreates-a-drop-of-napoli-magic/story-e6frg8jo-1227093645120  

Another win for the 2016 Circa 1880 Old Vine Shiraz China Wine & Spirits Awards 2019 results announced, receiving a GOLD medal for the 2016 Circa 1880 Old Vine Shiraz which was a nice surprise.  

DRUM ROLL PLEASE….drrrrrrrrrrr Presenting our 2014 Lacrima di Terra sparkling preservative free Lagrein once again hitting the big time! Our stunner of a wine has made the Hot 100 2014 list of SA wines This means out of more than 1400 wines tasted by expert wine judges our Lagrein hit the top of the list The Adelaide Review Hot 100 goal every year is to find the most drinkable wines in South Australia And WALA there it is BAM! sitting pretty in the Magazine for all to see below is the link so check it out..    http://hot100wines.com.au/issues/   You really need to try this wine..I will be showcasing it at the Adelaide National Wine Centre on Sunday November 30th 2014 from 2pm – 6pm at the Not the usual supspects alternative wine varieties event See details below   http://nottheusualsuspects.com/ http://bit.ly/nottheusualsuspects   If you cant wait for that long you can order it right now with the link below – minumim is 3 bottles with free delivery   http://www.conteestatewines.com.au/our-wines/lacrima-di-terra-preservative-free-sparkling-lagrein-2014/

Conte Estate 2014 Lacrima di Terra Preservative-Free Sparkling Lagrain This wine, made from the northern Italian variety Lagrain, is an incredibly dense and deep red/purple colour that seems almost to stain the glass.The flavours are predominantly of plums and dark berries, and there’s a brooding earthiness — quite appropriate for a wine whose name translates as “tears of the earth” — to the wine as it rolls down the tongue.This is a fine winter sparkling red that will readily stand toe-to-toe with the heartiest stew. And there are certainly no signs of any oxidation problems. http://www.ozbabyboomers.com.au/new_site/eats_drinks/wine/wine_notes/2014/06_14/conte_lagrein/conte_lagrein.html