4 Acres Shiraz
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, slow-cooked lamb shanks, wild mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Planted in 1879 by Edward Tyrrell, the legendary 4 Acres vineyard is one of the oldest continuously producing Shiraz blocks in the world. Located adjacent to the historic Tyrrell's winery in the Hunter Valley, these ancient, dry-grown vines thrive on their own roots in deep red clay soils. The resulting wine is a masterclass in elegance and restraint, defying the heavy, high-alcohol stereotype of Australian Shiraz. Fermented in traditional open-top oak vats and aged in large, neutral French oak casks, it retains a pure, medium-bodied profile defined by bright red berries, savory spice, earth, and seamless, silky tannins that reflect over a century of viticultural heritage.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1858 by English immigrant Edward Tyrrell, Tyrrell's is one of Australia's founding wine dynasties and a cornerstone member of Australia's First Families of Wine. Nestled beneath the Brokenback Range in the Pokolbin subdistrict of the Hunter Valley, the estate oversees some of the world's rarest own-rooted heritage vineyards, notably the Sacred Sites planted as early as 1867 and 1879. Viticulture focuses on sustainable stewardship over ancient alluvial flats and weathered clay loams under a warm, maritime-influenced sub-tropical microclimate. The winemaking philosophy balances traditional techniques, neutral oak, and minimal intervention to preserve purity, vitality, and sense of place. Tyrrell's benchmark portfolio is internationally celebrated for Vat 1 Hunter Semillon—an austere, unwooded white renowned for its transformative longevity—alongside Vat 47 Chardonnay, widely credited with pioneering commercial Australian Chardonnay, and the singular, medium-bodied Old Patch and Vat 9 Shirazes.
🍇 Grapes
Shiraz
🍷 ABV
13.0% - 13.5%