Holy Grail

Seppeltsfield, Barossa Valley
Single Vineyard Shiraz

By visiting this page, we hope that you are either enjoying our Holy Grail or would like to find out more about it.

The pinnacle of our wine production, the Holy Grail is our estate vineyard situated along the palm tree lined ‘Avenue of Hopes & Dreams’ in the sub-region of Seppeltsfield in the Barossa Valley.

Perhaps one of our proudest releases, the Holy Grail Shiraz is an intensely aromatic wine with an elegance and length on the palate that is truly captivating. Its name is inspired by the Monty Python movie and our quest to find the perfect vineyard site.

The first part of this site was purchased in 2008 and included 52 acres of vacant land. The vision was to wait until resources permitted and plant this area of land as specifically as possible. Just before the 2015 vintage, a further 37 acres of land were purchased, which included 16 acres of established shiraz vines. This established block produced 27 tonnes in its first 2015 vintage, the Shiraz sourced was later barrel classified by Michael & our winemaking team into Ares, Holy Grail, and a few barrels to Bella’s Garden. To learn more about how we planted Holy Grail read on HERE

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VITICULTURE

VINEYARD LOCATION: Seppeltsfield Road, Seppeltsfield, Barossa Valley
GROWER: Team Two Hands
BLOCK: Colin Morey
SURFACE: 14.8Ac
SOIL PROFILE:  Red Brown Earth or Stoney Clay
Fertiliser contributed by our Scottish Highland Cattle to support nutrients through our soils
PLANTING ORIENTATION: East to West
ELEVATION: 250m
AVERAGE VINE AGE: 20 years
CLONE:  Massal Selection from old Grange vineyards
PLANTATION DENSITY: 3 meter rows with 1.8 meter vine spacing
AVERAGE RAINFALL: 450mm
CULTURAL METHOD:  Cane pruned over winter, straw mulch, and compost. Vertical shoot position trellising. Crop thinned to 3.5kg to 4kg per vine

WINEMAKING

FIRST VINTAGE: 2015
CURRENT VINTAGE: 2021
AVERAGE PRODUCTION: 6 Barrels

VINIFICATION: Several small parcels from the Holy Grail vineyard were de-stemmed into 5T stainless steel. Gently pumped over 2-3 times daily, these parcels were pressed after an average time on skins of 10 days. All free run and pressings were combined in tank and was then racked off to barrel gross lees into barrel.to go through malolatic fermantation. The wine was bottled with minimum fining and no filtration.

Aged for 18 months in 1-4 year old French oak barrels. Aways bottled in November the following vintage.

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Our wines at Two Hands are crafted to last. There is nothing quite like the appreciation of opening a treasured gem that has been ageing gracefully in your cellar and savouring the development of the aromas and palate over the months and years.

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