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Was just looking at the turkey flat bottle, 156 years old...Gibson old vine collection are 155 years old.

Anyone know of any older vines in Australia/the world??

I had heard that Langmeil's Feedom shiraz sources from the oldest shiraz vines in Australia, but I do not know how old, nor the name of the block.
cheers,

s.

Kenzo you may be right...I just read they were 159 year old vines.

Any others older???

I am not sure who has the oldest but one thing is sure, once thay get to that age the vines are producing stuff all fruit. There may be a few vines around the 160 year mark in the Langmeil or Turkey but my bet is they make up a very small part of the final blended wine.

Ric,

You are right...it states "the vines that produced the grapes for the backbone of this wine were planted in the year 1847"

Wonder how much exactly of the final blend is from those vines? anyone know?

Oldest vines, or oldest producing vines?

Therein lies the question.

Olive Farm on the banks of the Swan River purportedly still have vines growing from the original planting in 1829. Don't know if they actually produce wine from them.

Davo wrote:Olive Farm on the banks of the Swan River purportedly still have vines growing from the original planting in 1829. Don't know if they actually produce wine from them.

Ah Davo,

Having tasted their wines is it possible they are storing juice from the 1829 vintage and blending it into thier current wines, that may explain thier wines.

The original riesling vineyard used by Rockford for their Vine Vale riesling (owned by the Klix family IIRC) are around 140 years old, but as TORB noted their age means that production is way, way low. Simply put, they are on life support and slowly dying. Rockford has had to source a younger (only 80 years old or so!) vineyard adjacent to the Klix one to keep making a small commercial quantity of the wine.

-- George Krashos

the 1847 planted vines from turkey flat make up 30% of the finished wine.