(Image: Owen Latta – Latta Vino / www.lattavino.com.au) About ‘Winemaker Owen Latta’s age belies a wealth of experience, making him a deserving winner of the Young Winemaker Medal for his quality Eastern Peake and Latta Vino wines. Second generation winemaker Owen Latta is the Ballarat kid setting the Australian wine scene on fire. Between the premium … Read More
(Image: Amber – Ochota Barrels / Henry Trumble @henrytrumble) About “The ochota barrels tale began on a surf trip, late 2000 along the Mexican west coast in a Volkswagen campervan. A final destination after traveling some of the world’s best wine and surf regions, Taras and Amber Ochota conceived the idea to make super premium wines back … Read More
(Image: Stephen Pannell – Koomilya / www.pannell.com.au) About Wines that reflect location, accent and the seasons of each vintage, Koomilya is a faithful record of what has passed and still endures. Producing single site wines, the established vineyard was named after a mid-19th century lugger that traversed between South Australia and the then emerging state of … Read More
(Image: James Erskine – Jauma Wines / www.jauma.com) About James and Sophie Erskine live and work on Jauma farm on Peramangk land in the wild hills behind Adelaide. They share the property with their three children, 700 cherry trees, a pear, apple and apricot orchard and 5 acres of young vines. James has been producing wines … Read More
(Image: William Downie – William Downie Wines / Jamie Goode – www.wineanorak.com) About William Downie represents the pinnacle of minimal intervention, site-specific pinot noir in Australia. No one has done more work in the vineyard than he has, spending his days meticulously caring for his home and leased vineyards, as well as seeking out … Read More
(Image: Stephen Pannell – Protero / Instagram @scpannell) About ‘Be Brave Wines produced from a place that has weathered the extremes of nature amongst the Adelaide Hills. Home to a unique style of Nebbiolo, the Protero vineyard tells the story of survival with Stephen and Fiona purchasing the property in late December 2019, and within days, battling … Read More
(Image: Nick Farr – By Farr / Kristoffer Paulsen – www.smh.com.au) Halliday Wine Companion Top 100 #5 rated winery for 2023 – By Farr ‘Every year, in any list, Geelong’s By Farr winery is one of the first picked. This is a single-minded producer if ever there was one; this is a producer interested in quality and nothing else.’ … Read More
(Image: Anna Pooley – Pooley Wines / www.pooleywines.com.au) Winner 2023 Halliday Wine Companion Winery of the Year “Tucked into a bend of the meandering Coal River, there is a deep spirit about the quaint Cooinda Vale vineyard, still the source of Pooley’s finest wines. To winemaker Anna Pooley, sense of place is everything, “for this is where the heart … Read More
(Image: Damon Koerner – Koerner Wine / Koerner Wine @ Facebook) About ‘I am Damon Koerner and I grow grapes and make wine from the Clare Valley and Adelaide Hills. I focus on fruit quality and transparent winemaking and am passionate about producing great wine that reflects the place it is grown. Koerner wines are textural, … Read More
(Image: Marli Russell Vineyard – Marli Russell Instagram / https://www.instagram.com/marlirussellwines/) About In 2008, in response to changing environmental conditions and our desire to evaluate new varieties, we began to establish additional vineyard areas at Mount Mary. We chose seven varieties that have been traditionally grown in the Rhone Valley of France with the vision to continue to … Read More
