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.
Glass half full
Yes, the majority of our wine is sold via the excellent restaurants of Melbourne and Sydney. And yes, those restaurants have been closed or operating at a significantly reduced capacity for much of another year. Oh, and our cellar door, which sells most of the rest… well, we haven’t opened that since July.
But!
We are in the extremely lucky position to be making and selling a product that gets better with time. Unlike so many of our favourite local businesses who suffer huge waste and losses when lockdowns hit and restaurants are forced to close, we just press pause and wait it out, taking comfort in the knowledge that our stock is slowly improving with every week that passes.
And now, friends, it is time to celebrate that fact with the much anticipated release of the final batch of our Pét nat 2018. After a whopping 45 months aging on lees, this is the best this wine has looked…
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OUR CELLAR DOOR IS CURRENTLY CLOSED.
We are doing a few little renovations and plan to re-open in the summer. In the meantime, please visit our online store to purchase our current releases.
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With 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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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Local, sustainable, natural… the buzz words are reaching fever pitch. It’s time to hang out the greenwashing.
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We’ve made the difficult decision to pause our cellar door to keep our little ones safe. In the meantime, we’ve just stocked up our online store with a bunch of goodies for you.
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Having been performing on and off for some thirty years, our Cabernet is finally delivering its swan song.
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Let’s catch up after this prolonged period of lockdowns, blackouts… lockouts.
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We grow and make a product no-one really needs, and use precious resources in the process. So how do we sleep at night?
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