Payten & Jones Major Kong Syrah

The Major Kong Syrah from Payten and Jones harks back the simpler days, slinking onto the palate with a seemingly impossible lightness, it tantalises with an array of fruitiness and a unique cloudiness, making it the perfect getaway bottle to the kingdom of light, cloudy Shiraz'. Flavoursome, yet light enough to have you floating blissfully to the top of the clouds.

Behn (Payten) and Troy (Jones) are two Healesville High School Graduates producing minimal intervention wines in the Yarra Valley. Behn’s dad Pete runs the vineyard side of things and has a long history working in organic vineyards and takes the philosophy into the vineyard. The Payten and Jones home block is in the upper elevations of the Yarra Valley and planted exclusively to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The home block is dry grown, a rarity in the Yarra Valley which means a crop is not guaranteed every vintage. We reckon drinking these wines is like experiencing a band live, as opposed to listening to a studio recorded track.There’s minimal intervention, a bit of ‘raw’ processes, and nothing filtered or cleaned up in any way. The wines aren’t 'squeaky clean', they are a bit 'edgy', even a bit 'raw'.