Clarendon Hills

Clarendon Hills is a benchmark McLaren Vale producer founded in 1990 by biochemist and self‑taught winemaker Roman Bratasiuk in the hill country around Clarendon and Blewitt Springs, south of Adelaide. From the outset Bratasiuk broke with prevailing Australian practice by bottling only single‑vineyard wines from dry‑grown, low‑yielding old vines, many planted in the early 20th century on ancient, sandy and ironstone soils. His flagship Astralis Syrah, sourced from old vines in Blewitt Springs and first released und…