Description
About Ravensworth
In 2020 we completed our winery and cellar. A large investment in state-of-the-art processing equipment that can deal with all the many varieties we grow and purchase each year. All based around small batch production.
In the cellar, lovingly built with straw bales over a three year, ‘Grand Designs’ period, is filled with large format long-lived oak, ceramic eggs, Italian Amphorae and strange concrete monoliths. All are designed for a longer elevage and set the wines up for a long happy life.
While we haven’t set up a tent in the Natural wines campsite, we are very interested in using no chemicals or additives in the process, a gentle touch, just letting our fruit, along with microflora, do their job as they have been for a millennia.
Our vineyard is situated in the bosom of the Murrumbateman wine country, just a half hour north of this fine nation’s capital, Canberra, or Kanbra as we call it. Whilst technically not the centre of the universe, we think it’s a pretty neat place to grow grapes, hang out and freeze our butts off each year.
This vineyard is planted with a mixture of varieties based on fairly precise scientific, meteorological and market information of the day. Either that or we are making it up as we go. Shiraz is the main crop and we have four different clones planted at the moment: Best’s selection old vine, the generic but awesome 1127, R6WV…um..28? from Tahbilk and a new one, ENTAV 470 from France apparently. If you want to study shiraz clones, look to the AWRI website, there’s a shit load of information there.
