Yalumba, Cabernet Sauvignon/Shiraz 'The Signature'

Area:

With a winemaking history that dates back more than a century, Coonawarra is one of Australia’s oldest wine regions and is part of South Australia’s picturesque Limestone Coast. Once a place of steel wool sheds, today Coonawarra is famed for its age-worthy red wines and strip of terra rossa (‘red soil’) – one of the most valuable patches of earth in Australian wine.

Producer:

Fiercely independent, extremely progressive and committed to looking after the land and its people, Yalumba acknowledges that the reputation of their wine is only as good as the next bottle a customer drinks.

In 1847 a 37-year-old brewer called Samuel Smith left his home in Wareham, Dorset with his wife Mary and their four children. Boarding a simple three-masted barque they left Plymouth and began the long and arduous journey to Australia, arriving in Port Adelaide. From there they trecked north to Angaston where Samuel took a job as a gardener. In 1849 he started the wine farm that would grow over the next 5 generations to become one of Australia’s leading wineries. To embrace the native culture, Samuel decided to adopt a local name for his farm, calling it “Yalumba” meaning “all the country around’’ in the indigenous Peramangk language.

Please note the last day for guaranteed Christmas delivery is the 19th of December. After this date we unfortunately cannot guarantee that your order will arrive in time for Christmas.