Dandelion Vineyards

Dandelion Vineyards is the project of winemaker Elena Brooks and her husband Zar, who describes his role in the business with deliberate self-deprecation. Elena sources fruit from across South Australia, including the Barossa and Eden Valleys, McLaren Vale, and the Adelaide Hills, working with growers who farm old vines with the kind of care that produces concentrated, characterful fruit.

The Barossa Shiraz is the grape and region the project is most associated with: dark-fruited, warm, and generous, without the heaviness that the region's detractors sometimes complain about. The range as a whole reflects the same values, honest expression of site and variety across South Australia's best-known sub-regions.