I R O N B A N K. Maybe you’ve been here.

It’s a quiet, untouched, natural and hidden place, high in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia.

It’s home to Robin, Tracey, Riley, Truffle the hound and a cat called Bender, whose personal life is her own.

It’s also home to five hectares of green and wavy-armed 30+ year old millennial Pinot and Cabernet vines, planted with love and no doubt big hair back then, by Robin’s fine folks Graham and Jude.

Rob and Tracey being Rob and Tracey, and this being their home and castle, the vines have always been cultivated with a firm yet gentle touch - minimal spray, responsible water use, an overall hands-on and Mother Nature First approach.

All fun aside, quality has always come first.

Feeling all that love, over the years the vines have developed quietly to now consistently deliver grapes in demand for iconic labels we’d have to kill you / drink with you to reveal.

Trust us, you’ve drunk this dirt before. And it’s good, if we do say so ourselves*.

And so more lately, we all got curious, started wanting to get hands a little dirtier, to play with these grapes to see how we might go getting all that original Ironbanky dirt goodness into the bottle in the purest way possible.

A propitious chat with Simon the maker of wines, another equally so with Ish & Dolly the makers of largely just trouble, and a plan was hatched.

Meet IRØNBANK. An occasional range of wines made when the dirt and those who lightly tread upon it feel like it.