Growing up
September 11, 2023
Our Pinot noir and Chardonnay are confident, gentle and joyful expressions of how these varieties perform in healthy South Gippsland soils, and demonstrate how our wines have come of age.
MoreThe thirsty season
We have a little bit left of all our current releases of you fancy lubricating your summer festivities with a few bottles of biodynamic wine from South Gippsland.
If you’d rather try before you buy, Neil and I will be opening bottles of all our current releases at our cellar door on the following days after Christmas:
Dec 23: Thurs 28th, Fri 29th, Sat 30th, 12-5pm
Jan 24: Tues 2nd, Fri 5th, Sat 6th, 12-5pm
Or you can pick up our wines from a few boutique retailers or enjoy a bottle alongside beautiful food prepared by someone else at one of our wonderful loyal restaurants – check out ‘Where to buy’ in the menu for all our current stockists.
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We don't run a regular cellar door but do like to down tools and open bottles for tastings on key dates during the year - typically on the Saturday of a long weekend.
Click here for our next open day.
MoreWith a focus on soil rejuvenation and controlling weeds with nothing but a whipper snipper below the vines and a mower deck between them, the essential micro-organisms are allowed to thrive and aid the transfer of minerals from soil to vine and ultimately glass.
MoreAll the wines we currently have available can be purchased here through our online shop. Feel free to mix up a case any way you like. Sign up to our Letters from The Wine Farm below to hear about new releases.
MoreIn 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 earth 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.
MoreGreat 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.
MoreThe worker’s cottage on our property is available for short stays. Bring some friends (it sleeps 6), check out the region and its spoils and soak up The Wine Farm for a weekend.
MoreOur Pinot noir and Chardonnay are confident, gentle and joyful expressions of how these varieties perform in healthy South Gippsland soils, and demonstrate how our wines have come of age.
MoreThis year we’re all out of kilter with the seasons. Once we’d finished picking and processing the last of the grapes this autumn, we skipped the usual winter rest and immediately turned our attention to the enormous task of preparing our new vineyard for planting this spring. The spring that never came.
MoreIt’s time to fill you in a long-term dream that is slowly becoming a reality. Post by post.
MoreAfter 45 months aging on lees this is the best our Pét nat has looked and half a glass is definitely not enough.
MoreLocal, sustainable, natural… the buzz words are reaching fever pitch. It’s time to hang out the greenwashing.
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