Our 10ha Barossa Valley vineyard is sectioned into four distinct blocks, designated by their varying terroir and planted with varieties best suited to their site. The Bullock Block is the most northern of the four blocks planted with Shiraz. Continuing along the eastern ridge is newly planted Shiraz in the Southeast Melrose Block and thirty-year-old Shiraz in the Settlers Block planted with an unknown clone. On the Southwest corner over the central ridge, is the only Cabernet Sauvignon in the vineyard, planted in 1995.

The name is a nod to my family’s story, one filled with Irish roots, religion, theft, and excommunication. The Thief? honours my Great Great Grandfather and early settler John 'Walter' Mooney, who went to his grave in the late 1800s, wrongly accused of stealing a neighbour's cow. It is a story that shaped my family’s identity and my own, and I wanted to honour that with this wine.