Wirrawirra.com Website Review

Join our community as an honorary Tribe member and enjoy the perks that go along with it, including wine automatically delivered to your These tales are key to the fabric of Wirra Wirra and are perpetuated by the faithful tribe that have come and gone over the years. Wirra Wirra Vineyards was originally established in 1894 by known South Australian eccentric and cricketer Robert Strangways Wigley. The winery prospered in its early days, producing many wines including a much acclaimed Shiraz, which was exported to England and the Empire until his death in 1926. The winery ran into disrepair and was eventually abandoned. In 1969 under the watchful eye of the late Greg Trott and his cousin Roger, the winery was rebuilt from the remnants of two walls and some slate fermenting tanks. As with all subsequent Trott endeavours, it was the sheer magnitude and unlikeliness of the project that made it so attractive. Church Block was the first wine the late Greg Trott produced under the Wirra Wirra label back in 1972. He took the name from one of the original vineyards, which runs next to the small Bethany Church (Est 1854) across the road from Wirra Wirra’s century old ironstone cellars. Over four decades, the Church Block label has become an Australian favourite. In 2009 we celebrated the 10 year anniversary since we phased out cork closures and moved to screw caps, by creating the world’s largest The late Greg Trott saw many of his unusual dreams realised at Wirra Wirra. Yet one vision eluded him – to build a medieval siege machine, or trebuchet. Why? To use as a catapult to bomb neighbouring wineries with bottles of wine, of course. Trott believed that if other wineries followed suit, he would have created a major tourism drawcard for his beloved McLaren Vale. We fulfilled Trott’s ambition when we had our very own trebuchet built in 2010. While we don’t bomb our neighbours with wine bottles, we do hurl watermelons into a neighbouring paddock. Just because we can. Oh, and this is where the Catapult Shiraz gets its name.