2024 Phase Three Wines Home of the Dero

A one-barrel labour of love from the Kelley family’s Eden Valley home block – tiny production, hands-on winemaking, and all the personality you’d expect from Phase Three’s most personal wine.

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This is the second release from Phase Three’s home block on the Flaxman/Eden Valley border – planted by the Kelley family with cuttings from some of the Valley’s most respected vineyards. The fruit comes mainly off “The Old Man’s Block”, a patch that sits beside their old barn under the watch of a giant gum tree that gives the wine its name. A few bunches from Truffle Hill and the Quarry Block made their way in too, along with a sprinkling of Marsanne, Roussanne and Viognier from a baby vineyard that’s still finding its feet.

The 2024 harvest was a family affair – even the kids got a day off school to help pick. Yields were tiny, just 314 kilos of fruit, enough for a single barrique. Fermentation was all whole cluster, left on skins for 28 days before basket pressing and a quiet rest in seasoned oak. Bottled with nothing added but a touch of sulphur.

Only 280 bottles exist, and the wine itself has that same mix of energy and restraint that runs through all the Phase Three reds. Give it some air and it’ll keep revealing more layers over time.

Our second bottling from our beloved home block situated on the border of Flaxman & Eden Valleys. We planted our home block using cuttings from some very esteemed local vineyards. It's proving to produce fruit with great intensity and flavour at low to moderate alcohol levels.



This release is again from "The Old Man's Block" situated around our old barn very close to the house, with a mighty centuries old gum tree at the head of the block that we call "The Old Man" due to a large side profile of a face in the base of the trunk that can also be seen on the back label of our wine.



This release too contains a few buckets from our other vineyards up on the hill. "Truffle Hill and The Quarry Block" And our love of Rhone varieties. We planted a tiny contour vineyard consisting of under 400 vines with Marsanne Roussanne & Viognier. Whilst this vineyard is yet to produce enough fruit to make a white wine from. As with the 2023 vintage. We select the very best bunches for inclusion in "Home of the Dero"


The kids were given the day off school to help hand harvest these little beauties. All up we managed a tiny yield of just 314 kilograms to afford one Barrique for the 24 season.



The precious cargo in this little stainless-steel tank was a 28-day whole cluster ferment. Basket Pressed and put to a lightly seasoned Italian Barrique for 16 months. This wine received no additions apart from a little Sulphur. It loves a good whiff of air and in time will unfurl and show its full potential.


13.1% Alcohol | 280 Bottles Filled

Price Bracket $51 to $100
Type Red
Body Full Bodied
Variety Shiraz
Country Australia
Region Barossa Valley
Australian State SA
Alcohol 13%
Size 750ml
Vintage 2024
Closure Cork

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