‘A unique Barossa Shiraz style highlighting superb vineyard provenance, singularity of style and authenticity of origin.’
Yalumba The Octavius Shiraz is connected to the earliest beginnings of South Australia’s wine industry. Forged from the Barossa’s oldest vineyards and matured in Yalumba-coopered oak, it epitomises the ambitions of the Hill-Smith family, where storied history, craftsmanship and modernity offer something special and unique in the world of wine. Yalumba The Octavius symbolises the essence of great Barossa shiraz. Ancient vines, pure expressive fruit and imaginative winemaking combine with some of the oldest geology in the world and the pristine environment of the Barossa region, where Australian First Nations people first lived thousands of years ago. This country is also the traditional lands of the Ngadjuri, Peramangk, and Kaurna peoples.
A Unique History
1849 ONWARDS Yalumba The Octavius Shiraz belongs to a tradition that dates back to 1849, when Samuel Smith first planted vines in the beautifully situated Angaston sub district of the Barossa Valley. The vineyards flourished and the wines found markets far and wide. Within just 30 years, Yalumba was exporting claret-style red wines and other types throughout the Australian colonies, India and New Zealand. In addition to its own vineyards, Yalumba, meaning ‘all the country around’, purchased grapes from English and German families who had arrived in the Barossa region in the 1840s and 1850s. Some of these relationships have lasted for several generations. In the early 1880s, Yalumba began exporting wine to the United Kingdom, where these wines became famous for their richness of flavour, buoyancy of fruit and fine-grained textures. This success was aided by a partnership with Peter Bond Burgoyne, who created a remarkable trade
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