Hobart couple Clinton Mead and Tanya Dalton waited more than a decade before they were able to purchase a greenfield vineyard site that met their exacting requirements for growing small-batch Pinot Noir. Their search ended at Koonya, not far from Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula. Not far either from Bream Creek Vineyard, one of the State's...
Glaziers Bay is arguably the 'dress circle' of the Huon Valley/D'Entrecasteaux wine district. Nowadays home to Chatto Wines, two decades ago it was celebrated as the domain of Eric and Jette Phillips, who founded their renowned Elsewhere Vineyard above the Huon River in 1984 and later retired to No Regrets (planted in 2000). Owen and Eve Knight...
When you devote your entire wine business to one variety - in a very cool and very marginal winegrowing district - you've got to get it right. And Jim and Daisy Chatto have been doing it right since day one on their property at Glaziers Bay, south of Hobart. Almost 20 years ago.
Doug and Corrie Cox have worked wonders on the old Loira Vineyard, first planted in 1985 by renowned winemaker and Jimmy Watson Trophy winner, Don Buchanan. When the couple purchased their Tamar Valley property in 2014, it was in need of a little bit of love and care. They spent much of their first year among the vines, breathing...
Kate Hill launched her small eponymous ('self-branded') wine company in the best possible way, by winning a gold medal and People's Choice Trophy at the 2009 Tasmanian Wine Show with her 2008 Riesling. The quiet and unassuming Huon Valley winemaker has always proved to be force to be reckoned with when it comes to the much under-rated variety in...
When you see this Westella wine in the flesh, it's hard not to take an instant liking to it, regardless of its wine quality. The combination of Lynda Warner's graphic design skills and the featured artwork of renowned local painter Sue Lovegrove certainly makes the vineyard's wine label an eye-catching celebration of Tasmania's alpine landscape.
Rita and Bob Richter are committed to producing distinctive wines for the long haul from their Glengarry site just outside Exeter in the Tamar Valley. But how far is a long haul? This week's opening of The Mattock from the 2012 vintage suggests a decade at least for these wines, and perhaps closer to 20 years from the most favourable of seasons. ...
Vignerons James Oliver and Constance Olivier took on ownership of the 25-year-old Moores Hill Estate in July 2022 after working for several years in Victoria's Yarra Valley. The couple wanted to get out of the rat race and build a new home together in the Tamar Valley, north of Launceston, where vine development matches the pace of life in the...
Clever bloke that Peter Dredge. Deep thinker. Witty too. Sometimes it's hard to tell which mode he's in. Evidently, this 95 percent:5 percent blend of Pinot Meunier and Pinot Noir was inspired by an all-day wine bar on the Hobart Waterfront owned by Lauren Benson – Rosie in my Midnight Dreams.
Wow. Here's a Pinot Noir with style and pizazz. When Tamar Valley wine pioneer Ralph Power added Pinot Noir to the vineyard he planted at Legana in the early 1970s, there was very little of the variety being grown anywhere in Australia.
