Winemaker Hugh McCulloch was bitten by the wine bug while studying Modern History at St Andrews University in Scotland. The Wellington & Wolfe brand he established in the Tamar Valley in 2017 references his boyhood passion for 18th century military history and two famous British generals in particular.
What would you do if you bought a vineyard that had seen better days and were promptly told pulling out the vines would be your best starting point for new developments on the site? That was the advice Jens and Louise Volkmann received when the couple bought Charles Reuben Estate on Middle Tea Tree Road in late 2013.
The Kreglinger Tasmanian sparkling wine lineage goes all the way back to 1995. You learn a lot over 30 years, and one thing this family company has never lost sight of over the decades is that prestige sparkling is precision made, using the best possible vineyard resources available. It's not a safety net intended to catch fruit that doesn't...
John and Joy Rees established Nandroya Vineyard - not far from Sandfly - back in the early 1990s. Their decision to plant Sauvignon Blanc placed them among the early adopters of the variety in southern Tasmania. It was a brave move, given their site's ultra-cool growing conditions. Fortunately, skilful vineyard management - chiefly through...
Andrea Kitto and Jamie Cowen began planting Pinot Noir at their 1.4ha Cathedral Rock Vineyard at Sandfly back in 2004. Subsequent additions in 2010, 2015 and 2017 now allow the couple to draw upon a neat mix of certified and uncertified material of significant vine age. That's a great starting point when your goal is to make tiny quantities of...
In the hands of many winemakers, Pinot Gris - aka Pinot Grigio - can produce very dull drinking indeed. That doesn't apply here. The wine's cool climate origins in northern Tasmania - at Relbia, just outside Launceston - have endowed it with rich ripe pear and white nectarine flavours. Weighing in at just 12.5% in alcohol, it sits very...
Vines on Nick Hayes and Saskia Jahn's property at Kettering were initially planted in 1997 by one of the State's first formally trained winemakers, Bruce Gilham. Vine age means a lot when you're talking Pinot Noir. Each year adds subtle layers of depth and complexity as vineyard terroir begins to shine through.
Gewürztraminer was the wild child of the Tasmanian wine industry in the 1980s and early 1990s. Long before orange wines and new-fangled lo-fi varietals and blends appeared in our wine glasses, this was the left-field variety to drink or cellar medium-term. Tasmanian-grown Gewürz didn't turn out all fat and flabby and OTT after its journey through...
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...
