Kay Brothers
The Kay Brothers McLaren Vale Amery Vineyards grace the
rolling foothills of the Southern Mt Lofty Ranges. Established in 1890 by
Australian born brothers, Herbert and Frederick Kay, the Heritage listed Kays
Amery Winery celebrated its first grape crush in 1895 and is the oldest McLaren
Vale winery still in founding family hands. Today, the family continues the
winemaking traditions in the heritage listed cellars. Kay Brothers utilise a traditional
method of pressing out their wines. Their Celestial & Coq basket press was installed
and ready for use in the 1928 vintage to replace older hydraulic and manual
screw presses that had proved unreliable. For their winemaker, it is still the
preferred of their two presses. The basket press reflects Kay Brothers traditional
winemaking philosophy. The grapes are pressed gently, resulting in softer
tannins and cleaner juice as the juice is filtered through the mass of pulp
while draining through the basket. Whilst this process is labour intensive and
time consuming, Kay Brothers are confident it translates to superior quality.
Block 6 Shiraz 2020
This is the 35th release of their flagship wine, handpicked from 126 year old vines.
Long held in high esteem as one of McLaren Vale’s finest Shiraz plantings, Block 6 Shiraz continues the tradition at Kay Brothers of producing full bodied red wines that have the grace and pedigree to age for decades. Handpicked and fermented in the original open top fermenters, Block 6 Shiraz is a wine of great strength, deep complexity and amazing vibrancy.
The Block 6 vineyard faces east and rows run north south with significant undulation. The vines are cane pruned with the canes wrapped onto the top wire of the low lying trellis. The present 3.5 acres comprises a corner of red loam, some heavy clay in the middle of the block and gravely alluvial soils on the lower side. The underlying "South Maslin Sands” geology is extremely complex containing layers of glauconite, limestone, sandstone and siltstone.
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