After 15 years winemaking in Australia (Petaluma, Tatachilla and Red Hill Estate), France (Domaine Lafage), Chile (Santa Rita) and Spain (Bodegas Borsao), Simon Greenleaf established a small winery in ...

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 Conte family has a large vineyard, predominantly established since 1960 but with 2.5ha of shiraz planted 100 years earlier. The vineyard includes shiraz, grenache, cabernet sauvignon, sauvignon ...

The Zarephath vineyard was owned and operated by Brothers and Sisters of The Christ Circle, a Benedictine community. In '14 they sold the property to Rosie Singer and her partner Ian Barrett-Lennard, ...

Richmond Estate featured in a number of books I wrote between 1979 and '84, as then-proprietor Barry Bracken (a Sydney orthopaedic surgeon) was making excellent Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon. However, ...

Dentist turned vigneron and winemaker Joe Ceravolo, and wife Heather, have been producing single vineyard wines from their 16ha estate on the Adelaide Plains since 1999, enjoying wine show success ...

Peter Beckingham is a chemical engineer who has turned a hobby into a business, moving operations from the driveway of his house to a warehouse in Moorabbin. The situation of the winery may not be ...

Natillie (Tillie) Johnston began her career in ’12, one of the vintage crew at Coldstream Hills, and says her love for pinot noir began there. She then spent 4 of the next 8 years drifting between the ...

Foster e Rocco is a business that has a very clear vision: food-friendly wine based on the versatility of sangiovese. Adam Foster makes the wine at Syrahmi, building it from the ground up, with ...

Redesdale Estate was planted in 1982 on the rocky northeast slopes of a 25ha grazing property fronting the Campaspe River. The vineyard property was sold in 2016; Peter and Suzanne Williams now live ...

Ronald and Elaine Luhrs have 2.7ha of vines, mostly planted back in 1992. The principal varieties are cabernet sauvignon, merlot, malbec, cabernet franc and petit verdot (hence their wines modelled on ...

Family-owned and -run, Pfeiffer Wines occupies one of the historic wineries (built in 1885) that abound in North East Victoria, which is worth a visit on this score alone. In '12, Chris Pfeiffer was ...