Australia Vineyards Presenting and promotion Australian Vineyards and Winemakers Hay Shed Hill Estate The Hay Shed Hill Estate is a modern wine making and cellar door facility located on Harmans Mill Road, Wilyabrup in the heart of the MargaretRiver "golden triangle". Nearby wineries include Moss Wood, Evans and Tate, Cullen and Howard Park. The boutique winery is utilised to produce and mature the established icon wines under the flagship Hay Shed Hill label. It also houses the cellar door sales outlet for the Hay Shed Hill and Pitchfork labels. A renovated period homestead and gardens located on the property completes this idyllic setting. The vineyard consists of a number of varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc and a number of the vines are over 25 years old. From the moment you turn in to the driveway, you will appreciate that this is one of MargaretRiver's most charming vineyards. Bring your camera, a picnic lunch and take in the scenery. Enjoy tasting some of MargaretRiver's finest wines. If you want to make good wine a good starting place is to consider all the factors that come together to make wine and get it clear in your head the hierarchy of importance of each of these factors. You have to look at region, vineyard site, viticultural management grape variety, winemaking, oak etc. After 15 years of looking at the transition of grapes to wine it has become increasingly clear that overwhelmingly the single most important factor is clearly site. A lot is made of region, some regions are judged to be better than others. For instance it is widely said that Margaret River is a great wine region - but that is simplistic because Margaret River has, like every other wine region in the world, lots of very poor sites. Look at Burgundy, it makes, in my view, the most sublime wines in the world but also some of the worst. So it is clearly not enough to just be in the broader boundaries of Burgundy - you need to have a good site. Whilst the quality extremes may not be quite as severe in Margaret River because it is generally more benign and less extreme than Burgundy for grapegrowing it is nevertheless true that site attributes are the most important quality factor in the equation. On leaving University I was, naturally convinced that it was all about management but if I have learnt one thing it is that a good site will shine through no matter what the human intervention, and a poor site will resist even the best human inputs and refuse to grow good grapes. Obviously the best combination is a good site and good management. PO Box 221, Cowaramup WA 6284 Phone: (08) 9755 6046 Fax: (08) 9755 6083 Website : www.hayshedhill.com.au

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