  Charles Melton Winery in Tanunda (about an hour and a half drive north of Adelaide)buys the grapes from the vines that we tend up at Laura (about a two and a half hour drive north of Adelaide.
This is where I took the children for our holidays last week. Since 1994 we have been working with a small group of growers who have developed Shiraz and also Cabernet vineyards in the Southern Flinders Ranges. This new viticultural region is around 180km from the Barossa and moves from the township of Laura further north to Mount Remarkable. The land is surprisingly varied and encompasses sites ranging from spectacular hillsides through to low yielding creek plains. The oldest of these vineyards is now giving us grapes that are allowing us to make the sort of wine that we always believed this exciting new area had the potential to do. Whilst sharing the richness and weight of the Barossa wines the Laura wines show a sweeter perfume and less of the spice that we see from our Tanunda gardens!!
By the way…. The trophy for "Most Outstanding Effort in Promoting Humour During Vintage (or at least it was funny for everyone else to see Charlie, James and Tim flee from the crusher in lightening speed)" goes to one of our Laura growers who packed their grape delivery bin with a surprise rubber snake. Tee Hee Tee Hee...the fun you can have with rubber snakes, heh! ! 
