The Wine Farm is where we grow the wine we want to drink and
the food we want to eat. It's where our kids get muddy, our dog
can howl without upsetting the neighbours and we can breathe.
Dear wine friends
We’re always talking about the importance of wines being allowed to show ‘place’ – keeping the fruit pure to let it express the soil in which it grew. So given we’re very nearly ready to share the first of our 2017 wines with you, we thought we should tell you a bit about our place first.
What’s so special about The Wine Farm?
There are so many things about our tiny pocket of South Gippsland that we love. Things we want to tell you about, things we’d love to show you when you next visit and things we ultimately aim to express in our wine.
It’s an amazing place to live and farm. A place of green rolling hills we reckon should be covered in vines. A place where a growing community of food producers is hitting its straps; a place more and more Melburnians are overheard tipping as ‘the next Mornington Peninsula’ to a chorus of locals who say ‘no sir!’; and a place where grapes thrive.
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In Neil’s native South Africa, where he studied and started his career in wine, vineyards are commonly referred to as ‘wine farms’. The focus is on growing grapes and the people who grow them are farmers.
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Here at The Wine Farm we work hard to make pure wine that shows place not process.
It’s taken us a long time to come up with those few words, and while they might not sound like much to you they mean the world to us.
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We’ve just started a conversation with people who value the same sort of wine as us – wine that is pure; wine that shows place not process – and are interested in how it’s achieved. If you’d like to hear more about the wine we make and how we make it, as well as getting … Continued
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Buying an existing vineyard without really knowing its potential is something you could lose a lot of sleep over.
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Great wine is the sum of hundreds of decisions from vineyard to bottle. As the ‘maker’ all I do is try to make the best decision I can at any particular point in time.
MoreOur online shop is temporarily closed while we prepare to release our 2017 vintage. Sign up to our mailing list to hear when a new wine becomes available as well as interesting information about how it came to be.
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In 2014, having fallen for the region in general and the potential of its grapes in particular, we took the biggest plunge so far. We poured our joint worldly effects into a small patch of dirt down the road. An unassuming address we thought might just have everything we needed to start creating our own little world. Good soil, eight thousand vines, a great big shed and lots of bedrooms to fill.
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The worker’s cottage on the property is available for short stays. Bring some friends, check out the region and its spoils and soak up The Wine Farm.
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