For over 40 years this family-owned vineyard and relatively low-profile winery has produced some outstanding wood-matured whites and pleasant, soft reds selling at attractive prices. The vineyards ...
The record number of wines entered this year increased my hand wringing as I sought to make choices between wines of near-identical entitlement. Not that this exercise is entirely new: last year’s ...
Manyara Wines, a family-owned and -operated vineyard and winery, was established on fertile land once used to breed and train thoroughbred race horses. The altitude of the Adelaide Hills brings low ...
Emma and David White once described themselves as corporate renegades and were known by their friends as 'wine chasers'. But no more. Emma 'retired' at the age of 40 from her career as CFO and COO of ...
The Lusby family has established shiraz (2.2ha), sangiovese (1.6ha), merlot (1.3ha), semillon (1.2ha) and cabernet sauvignon (0.2ha) on a northeast-facing slope with red clay and limestone soil.
Don and Jo Hearn met in London in 1992, and after several years travelling around the world, they returned to Australia with nothing but a backpack full of dirty clothes and two Turkish rugs. They ...
The Berton Vineyards partners – Bob and Cherie Berton, James Ceccato and Jamie Bennett – have almost 100 years’ combined experience in winemaking, viticulture, finance, production and marketing. The ...
Four members of the Maher family have established Two Tails Wines, with an exotic mix of gewurztraminer, semillon, chardonnay, verdelho, pinot noir, shiraz, chambourcin, ruby cabernet and villard ...
In the early 1960s the Rica family planted table grapes, followed by shiraz and semillon in ’64–66: these are said to be the oldest vinifera vines in the Granite Belt region. The Tobin family (headed ...
Guy Darling was one of the pioneers of the King Valley when he planted his first vines in 1970. For many years the entire production was purchased by Brown Brothers for their well-known Koombahla ...
David and Lyn Crossley purchased their property on the Lake George escarpment in 1998, planting clonally selected pinot noir, pinot gris, cabernet franc and merlot over the following 2 years, their ...
The Peace family has been a major Swan Hill grapegrower since '80, moving into winemaking with the opening of a $3 million winery in ’96. Varieties planted include chardonnay, colombard, grenache, ...