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Native shelter belts protect the vines from prevailing winds and help to keep nature in balance with insect populations and native birds.
Shiraz red wine grape vines pruned in July
Vineyard
Pindarie Vineyard
The trellis style utilised is known as a ballerina trellis with foliage wires that can position some of the shoots upwards and leave the remainder to fall open like a “ballerina skirt”. The aim is to optimise sunlight interception into the canopy and fruit for enhancing quality. This style of canopy management also minimises disease development due to canopy openess and quick drying of leaves after rain events.
Natural vegetation grows between the rows as a covercrop, then mowed down in spring and left to dry off naturally. In some blocks we allow the midrow vegetation to set seed before mowing to build up a seed bed of naturally occurring grasses. We are trialing a pasture mix between the rows and are undertaking a straw mulching program for the undervine area, commencng in autumn 2009. Soil health and water conservation is fundamental for sustainability. Our philosophy in the vineyard is sustainable viticulture so as not to upset the balance of nature. We see many natural insects and they help keep the unwanted pests under control. All the shelter belts surrounding the vineyards are planted to native species common to this area and this helps to provide habitats for the native birds and insects.
We hand spur prune all our vineyards to manage bud numbers and keep yields low so as not to 
compromise quality.
We grow three Barossa wine varieties:
Cabernet Sauvignon
Savignin (a white variety once thought to be Albarino!)