Vineyards

Taken from the Aboriginal name for 'honeysuckle', Coonawarra is blessed with the union of soil, climate and underground water, making it one of the best areas in Australia for wine production.

All of Ladbroke Grove's 45 hectares of vineyards lie either on the, now internationally, famous red strip ('terra rossa') or in the transitional strip, which contains excellent free draining soils. The unique 'terra rossa', or 'red earth', originally underwater, is a result of half a million years worth of mineral deposits, which accounts for its unique character. This combination of Coonawarra's unique soil, together with its cool and marginal climate, produces vines that are low-yielding and grapes that are both rich in colour and intensely flavoured.

Ladbroke Grove specialises in single vineyard wines with a particular emphasis on vine density. The main vineyards for premium wines have vine plantings between 1350-1500 vines per acre. This tight spacing makes the blocks extremely difficult to manage; however the results warrant the extra effort in the vineyards, since the wines produced have achieved exceptional results in major Australian and international wine shows.