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Rob Linn, a highly respected and well regarded historian has made an interesting discovery and uncovered that we at Conte Estate Wines hold the oldest surviving Shiraz vineyard in the McLaren Vale region, how exciting! The historians research led to discoveries of numerous newspaper articles on Thomas Hardy's new vineyard purchases. One article inparticular within the South Australian Register newspaper in 1892  has specific information on our 'Over The Hill' Shiraz vineyard . The historian concluded that in 1880 it was originally planted on the 120 property called Latta's. This land was then purchased by Thomas Hardy in 1886 and re-named Glen Hardy.   

Not only this rare finding was revealed but he also had high praise for our wines, his supportive email as described  below.