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Vintage 2024 is safely in the shed, and what a wonderful year

Vintage 2024 will be remembered as a picture perfect year, a superb growing season, enough rain (just) and warmth at the right times. In the winery we had the smoothest vintage to date. Busy but not to busy. A compressed vintage but a vintage full of highlights. One of the truly great years and something to get really excited about. Great whites, great reds. A year to remember!

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Great People can have Great Talent - Dragan is One Special Person

Dragan Radocaj is an incredible fine art photographer based in the Barossa. He has taken many of the great photos that I am sure you have admired over the years for us, and most if not all the other wineries of the Barossa Valley. He is a man of rare talent. He also has one of most interesting stories that any individual I have ever encountered. His pictures tell the stories of the Barossa Valley Vineyards, its people and of course its wine.

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Young Guns Of Wine Vineyard of the Year 2022 - Winners Announced

The annual Vineyard of the Year Awards have been decided, with the trophy winners for the third instalment announced at a trophy presentation in Melbourne on Tuesday night – the first in-person presentation for these awards. Narrowing the top 50 down to the 4 winners was tough I am sure, but some very worthy winners were selected.

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Vintage 2023 - A Very Busy Week - Lots Of Shiraz, Grenache and Mataro

Vintage 2023 has finally kicked into gear with more than 60% of our predicted harvest arriving in the winery in the space of 7 days. Our Estate Fruit, Block 15, Primrose Reds, and the 1919 Shiraz all arriving inside a week. Many of our very best blocks are now safely in the winery, crushed and fermenting away. With a few key blocks still to come from the North and East, we still have a month to go but with good quantities and very good quality, both Growers and Winemakers have cause for happiness.

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Vintage 2023 - We Now Get Serious - Our First Shiraz

After a slow start to Vintage 2023, today, 3 April marked the start of vintage at Hayes Family Wines for the dry red destined fruit. The first pick, Block 1 from the Estate Vineyard in Stone Well. Beautiful clean fruit, excellent cropping levels (best in some years). A picture perfect start to vintage 2023 for the reds. We expect we will see a lot of fruit over the coming days with Southern Fruit expected from Williamstown tomorrow. Busy times ahead.

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Members Day 2023

Each year towards the end of March we hold a Members Day to celebrate what we do with a growing number of like minded friends. We pick, we make some wine and most importantly we eat, drink and celebrate what is great about Hayes Family Wines. If you missed this year, put a note in your diary, become a member and join us in March 2024, you will be happy you did.

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Vintage 2023 - Time for Rose

With the red grapes still taking their time, our attention turns to our Rose base, for us at Hayes Family Wines this is equal parts Fromm Grenache and Fromm Mataro. Williamstown typically ripens two weeks ahead of Stone Well and that looks to be the case again this year. The red grapes like the whites looks wonderful, great flavours at relatively low sugars. Andrew is very excited about the rose again this year, we cannot wait.

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Vintage 2023 - Off and Walking Slowly

The Barossa in Autumn signals time for vintage, typically dry, warm to hot days and cool nights. And that is exactly what we are seeing in 2023. The red grapes are ripening slowly, but we have picked the Chardonnay, Semillon and this coming week we will pick the Rose base. The fruit looks wonderful, great flavours at relatively low sugars, and hence potential alcohol. Reds are still some way off.

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Pre-Vintage 2023 - While We Wait

The Barossa in Summer is a wonderful place to be. Warm, dry weather as we wait for the grapes to ripen with great hope for the vintage ahead. In this case, Vintage 2023. There is excitement in the air.

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Barossa Vintage Festival 2023

Vintage is the best time to visit the Barossa. Each year, between February and May the Barossa is alive, picking grapes, making wine, socialising and celebrating. Every 2 years, the Barossa stages an event to celebrate, the Barossa Vintage Festival. Come visit in April 2023 and join the festivities

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The Barossa Community makes the Valley Stonger

Community plays a big part in the Barossa Valley. It is one of the key things that makes the Barossa truly one of the great wine regions of the world. We as a small Barossa Winery benefit greatly from the Barossa, and that means at time we need to give back, both locally, interstate and globally. I would not have it any other way.

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