Adelina is a small winery and vineyard nestled in the Spring Farm Valley between the Aberfeldy and Wendouree vineyards, approximately 4km south/south east of the township of Clare.
The small vineyard has an elevation of approximately 450 metres above sea level, originally established circa 1910 yields mainly Shiraz, Grenache, and Cabernet Sauvignon, however there are also small plantings of Pinot Noir and Pedro Ximenes.
The Gardner family have owned the Spring Farm Estate (the site of both the Adelina winery and vineyards) since 1986. Prior to the inception of Adelina Wines in 2000, the property was managed by Will and Elaine Gardner and fruit was sold to Tim Adams.
Our vision is to focus on alternative varieties that offer something different to wine consumers. Taking a page from the Europeans who drink lighter styles and lower alcohol more food friendly wines, we have employed the renowned Joanne Irvine, Winemaker to be part of our team and create some wonderful exotic wines. We firmly believe that Australia's future lies in alternative wines, creating new and exciting varieties to offer exisiting wine drinkers and embrace potential wine drinkers.
Claymore wines began in 1997 with an Adelaide medical professional realising the opportunity to indulge his passions for great wine, timeless music...and the Liverpool Football Club. Now, over 15 years on, what began as a passionate diversion has grown into a serious boutique business producing in excess of 10 000 cases of premium Clare Valley wine each year.
Eldredge Vineyards cellar door opened in December 1994 after many months of renovating an 80 year old stone cottage. Located directly west of Sevenhill, we are on the boundary of the Clare valley at 440 metres above sea level overlooking the Blyth Plains, with vineyard rising to 530 metres at its highest point. It is an excellent tourist destination and vineyard site which produces high quality Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sangiovese, Merlot, Malbec and Riesling.
The Gaelic Cemetery Vineyard brand was sold in late 2019 and has continued to go from strength to strength. The Pike family created an excellent brand and award-winning wine with Gaelic Cemetery. Our aim is to further support this excellent foundation to ensure the business grows organically and sustainably over the long term.
It takes time, devotion and attention to detail to produce beautiful wine, especially when you’re a small family-run operation. Our founder Jeffrey Grosset is dedicated to creating pure expressions of variety and place. Our certified organic Clare Valley vineyards are handpicked and hand pruned; each bunch of grapes is harvested at optimum ripeness and the winemaking process is gentle and uncomplicated. We have four estate-owned, certified organic vineyards; each located in high altitude country just north of the winery.
Now in our fifth decade, annual production is capped at 11,000 cases. Just 25 per cent is exported but we have built a significant international profile and produce wines deemed consistently outstanding; benchmarks in their class. We sell on premise, export to a number of countries, and sell here at our newly renovated cellar door.
Kilikanoon Wines has built an enviable reputation since Kevin Mitchell founded the business in 1997. In fact, Kilikanoon has been rated Australia’s best winery 7 times in the last 11 years – by James Halliday in his 2013 companion, the London based IWSC in 2018 and Germany’s Mundus Vini in 2010 and for the last four years culminating in 2020.
The powerful elegance of Kilikanoon Wines is the ultimate expression of Clare Valley terroir. A symphony of diverse and unique microclimates masterfully composed, to deliver impeccable quality and style for each marque. Meticulous site selection and diverse terroir enable us to deliver impeccable quality year on year through masterful composition.
Located in the picturesque Clare Valley of South Australia, the Kirrihill Wines story began in the late 1990’s with two friends; both with a rich family history in the Valley dating back to the 1890’s, and both with the same shared passion and dream. That dream was to build a winery and produce world class wines from cool climate vineyards that would showcase the unique characters of the Clare Valley. Now, some 21 years after their first vintage, the original vision of the owners to produce wines that improve year on year has become a reality, and the passion for success keeps driving Kirrihill forward to still chase that dream and to set the benchmark in the Valley for a world class premium producer.
By Appointment Only.
By name AND by nature, it’s not surprising that Mark Barry is known as MB.
Throughout his long involvement in the wine industry, Mark has developed a well-known reputation not only as a talented winemaker, but also for his wicked sense of humour and, some would say, his often unconventional ways of doing things.
Therefore, Mad Bastard Wines (MB) is an appropriate name for his new venture in South Australia’s Clare Valley.
Widely recognised as one of the world's great Riesling producers, Mitchell wines is a small family owned winery in the Clare Valley, South Australia established in 1975. From their mature, dry grown vineyards the family produces an exclusive range of high-quality wines. As well as the Riesling, they craft intensely flavored, well structured, long living reds from Shiraz, Cabernet, Grenache and Mataro.
O’Leary Walker Wines (OWW) was founded in 2000 by winemakers (and best friends) – David O’Leary and Nick Walker. OWW is a family-owned Clare Valley winery, with an established reputation for producing award-winning regional wines, combining uncompromising quality with personality. Joining their experienced winemaking team is Jack Walker (Nick’s son and fourth generation winemaker), who is passionate about new varietals, innovative techniques, and single vineyard wines. OWW is known for celebrating the best of South Australia’s grape-growing regions, drawing on the highest quality fruit varieties that excel in these varied viticultural climates, including both the Clare Valley and Adelaide Hills. Our cellar door in the heart of the Clare Valley overlooking the beautiful Watervale region, which features a restaurant that offers an elevated menu which reflects the seasonality of ingredients from across our fruitful state. Led by head chef BJ, our restaurant is recognised as one of South Australia’s top restaurants. OWW’s goal remains unchanged: aiming to simply make great wines with character and balance, that can be cellared and improved with age, while leaving a little time for fishing as well!
About 1 ½ hours drive north from Adelaide is the beautiful Polish Hill River sub-region of the Clare Valley , home to Neil and Alison Paulett and their winery. The Polish Hill River region was named after the Polish Settlers of the mid 1800's. The area is blessed with a climate ideal for premium grape growing and the combination of consistently good winter rains, hot summers tempered by cool nights and a long ripening period produces grapes of exceptional flavours and balance.
The Penna Lane vineyard is located 10 kilometres south of Clare in the Skilly Hills, adjacent to the Spring Gully Conservation Park.
The vineyard is planted at an elevation of approximately 450 metres which provides for a long slow ripening period, which results in intense varietal fruit flavours.
Pikes pride themselves on producing quality handcrafted wines, that reflect vintage, variety and region. The Pike family have been producing quality wine, beer and aerated waters since 1886 it is a family tradition of which we are proud.
Rhythm Stick Wines is an exclusively Riesling Varietal wine producer. We commenced our first Riesling production in 2009 after selling our single vineyard fruit to local small wineries.
We have a passion for Riesling & produce approximately 10,000 litres per annum. Our Goal is to produce Premium Gold Medal award wining, Dry Riesling varietal wines under our Red Robin label. When conditions are suitable we also produce a Reserve Riesling from our single, dry grown vineyard.
Rieslingfreak is the story of John Hughes, a man who is very passionate about Riesling. John grew up on an old Riesling vineyard, situated in Penwortham, Clare Valley. The vineyard was previously owned by Spencer George, with the Riesling grape going into the Skillogalee late picked Riesling. The vineyard was acquired by the Hughes Family in 1984, and developed the label Penwortham Wines.
After spending a number of years in the wine industry, completing many vintages, and being mentored by some of Australia’s top winemakers, I ventured out by myself to form Rieslingfreak.
[This winery may no longer be operating.] Seraph's Crossing is a 75-ha property including a 5-ha vineyard, located in Clare, in the Polish Hill River wine region of the Clare Valley, in South Australia's Mount Lofty Ranges.
Sevenhill was established by Austrian Jesuits who fled their country to escape political and religious oppression.
Two Jesuit priests, Father Aloysius Kranewitter and Father Maximillian Klinkowstrom, travelled to Australia as chaplains to a group of 130 Catholics led by Franz Weikert, a Silesian farmer, whose vision was to establish a community in South Australia which could enjoy religious freedom.
The immigrants settled near the township of Clare and the Jesuits, impressed by the fertility of the local soil, purchased 100 acres of land in 1851, naming it Sevenhill after the Seven Hill district of Rome.
Sevenhill Cellars was established in the following years to provide sacramental wine in the emerging Catholic parishes around Australia, beginning Sevenhill’s respected tradition of Jesuit winemaking. The underground cellar was excavated by hand and the winery building was constructed from stone quarried on the property.
Skillogalee operates a wine tasting and sales area and a restaurant from an old stone cottage built in 1851 by a Cornish miner, John Trestrail, who settled here and operated the property, then called Trevarrick Farm, as a mixed home farm. He and his wife had 17 children of whom 13 survived - he was a religious man who, it is said, did not approve of drinking!
The property remained in the Trestrail family until the early 1900's. It was then planted to stone fruit and vines for dried fruit, currants and sultanas. In the 1950's and 60's it became a grazing property until it was bought by Spencer and Margaret George in 1969. It was planted to wine grapes over the next 2 or 3 years - early varieties were Riesling, Shiraz, Grenache and Crouchen (formerly know as Clare Riesling) In the early 1980's, most of the Grenache and all the Crouchen were grafted to Traminer and Cabernet Sauvignon and additional small areas were planted with new Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Malbec.
A boutique family owned winery currently crushing 70 tonnes of
premium fruit from our own vineyards and select parcels from 30 to 60 year old vines in Sevenhill and Watervale.
We are situated in the Clare Valley and we were established in 2014 with our first vintage of our 2014 Shiraz launched in September 2015. We are a small family owned vineyard and cellar door, run by Mark and Skye Bollen where we focus mostly on producing our Shiraz from our 16acres of Dry Grown Shiraz vineyard situated on the western side of the Skilly Range. In August 2016 we launched our new extended portfolio of wines with the opening of our cellar door with varieties that I find interesting and I think do well in the Clare Valley. Production is around 700 - 800 cases pa
Cellar Door - Open Daily 10am - 5pm
My family’s conviction that the terra rossa soil of the Clare Valley was perfect for making wine, was borne out with a surprise discovery during the excavation of the vineyard dam. The fossilised remains of tiny seahorses were found in the limestone bedrock– confirmation that the area had once been the bed of an ancient inland sea. After this discovery, it seemed only natural to adopt the seahorse to represent our wines – and today the three seahorses serve as a tribute to three generations of Taylors winemakers; and as a mark of the quality you’ll find in every bottle of Taylors wine.
Tim Adams Wines was originally born of a partnership between Tim and Pam and local coopers, Bill and Jill Wray, in 1984. The business was to make wine and small oak casks. This first year fell in the middle of a grape shortage, but fortunately the budding company was able to beg 10 tonnes of Shiraz from a good friend and neighbour. 1986 saw the first release of wine under the 'Adams and Wray' label, but the partnership was later dissolved in 1987, with the young couples choosing to focus on their respective passions. The families are still good friends to this day.
1987 continued to be an eventful year for the newly named Tim Adams Wines, with the purchase of the current winery site and arrival of daughter Frances. Cellar door was opened and the first grapes crushed on site the following year. The decades that followed brought with them a natural evolution of the company, the physical site and the wines themselves. These years of hard work, passion and curiosity have resulted in a progressive family winery that is committed to creating elegant wines, without forgetting its obligation to the Australian wine industry, environment and wider community.
Tim Gramp is a fifth generation member of the family that made Orlando famous.
His grandfather Hugo Gramp was Managing Director of Orlando. His father “Snowy” Gramp was a Director and Viticultural Manager.
The Gramp family sold the company based in the Barossa Valley in the early ‘70’s, but Tim has continued the tradition by “flying the flag” under his personal label.
A graduate of Roseworthy College’s Wine Production and Marketing course, Tim spent a number of years in the McLaren Vale region learning his craft. Then in 1991, Tim gained access to some superb McLaren Vale Shiraz fruit and set about making his first vintage.
The Wilson Vineyard is a boutique family winery in the Polish Hill River sub-region of South Australia's Clare Valley.
Production is limited by the windy conditions, infertile clay soil and generally inhospitable environment that is found in the highest reaches of the Valley.
All wines produced under The Wilson Vineyard label are made on site in our own winery, giving the assurance of single vineyard, single site wines reflecting both the microclimate of Polish Hill River and the skills of the Wilson family.
