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The VINEYARD

OUR VINEYARD

Highland Heritage vineyard is situated at 900 metres on rich basalt soils. The cool temperatures during most of the growing season coupled with dry autumn conditions are ideal for grape growing. The fruit ripens slowly intensifying colour and flavour. Harvesting the fruit during autumn when its cooler, is also better for the fruit than compared to the heat of warmer climates.

Orange is a cool climate region with the added benefit of an elevation ranging from 600 metres to just under 1200 metres. This has a profound effect on the resultant wines, producing sophisticated and alluring reds and elegant well structured whites.

Located on 125 hectares on the Central Tablelands of New South Wales at Orange, 3kms east of the city, it is currently planted to 14 Hectares of grapes consisting of 0.79 Ha Chardonnay, 1.83 Ha Pinot Noir, 6.0 Ha Sauvignon Blanc, 0.80 Ha Merlot,0.6Ha  Riesling,3.22 Ha Shiraz 0.67 Ha Prosecco and 0.6 Ha Cabernet Franc.

The grape growing season is October to April. Harvest of our grapes usually starts in mid/late March to late April.

Wines are produced at the Ross HIll Winery in Orange with the very talented young winemaker, Luke Steel. Our tasting panel to maintain our high quality consists of winemakers Rex DAquino and Mike Degaris (both graduates of Roseworthy College), as well as Luke Steel, James Robson and Nick Butler.

SOIL

Highland Heritage vineyard is situated at 890 metres above sea level. The soils are decomposed basalt, and silty clay over andesite, all derived from the long extinct Mt Canobolas volcano.

CLIMATE

Orange is a cool climate region with the added benefit of an elevation ranging from 600 metres to just under 1200 metres.

PLANTINGS

It is currently planted to 14 Hectares of grapes consisting of 0.79 Ha Chardonnay, 1.83 Ha Pinot Noir, 6.0 Ha Sauvignon Blanc, 0.80 Ha Merlot,0.6Ha  Riesling,3.22 Ha Shiraz 0.67 Ha Prosecco and 0.6 Ha Cabernet Franc.

WINERY

Wines are produced at the Ross HIll Winery in Orange with the very talented young winemaker, Luke Steel. Our tasting panel to maintain our high quality consists of winemakers Rex DAquino and Mike Degaris, as well as Luke Steel, James Robson and Nick Butler.

TEMPERATURE

Temperatures in the vineyard range from -10 degrees celcius in the heart of winter to 35 degrees celcius in the height of summer. Spring growth begins slowly as the mean temperature reaches 10 degrees celcius in mid September but increase rapidly up to mid summer. In a similar way, autumns cool down quickly with little extra fruit ripening after mid April.

SUNSHINE

Cool temperatures during most of the growing season coupled with dry autumn conditions are ideal for grape growing. During the growing season we have 9 hours of bright sunshine per day with 1872 sunshine hours from October to April. The fruit ripens slowly intensifying colour and flavour. Harvesting the fruit during autumn when its cooler, is also better for the fruit than compared to the heat of warmer climates.

HUMIDITY

Orange is rated at 60%-70% relative humidity at 9am in January. This is good, as it reduces the transpiration stress on vines and their water requirement. Also, our vineyard being high in elevation, has the added advantage in having reduced water vapour content in the air at the relative humidity which assists in reducing leaf and fruit moulds.

RAINFALL

Rainfall ranges from 700mm/annum in dry years and 950mm/annum in wet years and reliably falls in winter Most rain comes from the Northeast. Irrigation is sometimes required in summer and is a minimal rate of 0-0.5 mega litres per hectare.