Kangarilla Road - Scarce Earth Project - Shiraz | Australian Red Wine

McLaren Vale Scarce Earth project is a celebration of McLaren Vale’s best Shiraz vineyards reaching their full expression through single block wines. The 2009 wines have been through 3 tasting panels to ensure they reflect their sense of place and express their true fruit characters.

The vineyard Kangarilla Road has chosen for the Scarce Earth Project Shiraz is within view of Maslin Beach and it’s geology is from the Eocene (34-56 million years ago) and is on Blanche Point Formation which is a marine fossil rich calcareous siltstone/limestone.

Whilst the vineyard is close to the sea, the vines are reasonably protected by sandhills and vegetation but there is still a level of stress for the vines in their quest for water which in turn adds to the quality of the fruit.