Wineries

Here are Australia's best kept secret wineries that the big retailers don't want you to know about. Every single wine listed here is something special, made with love and attention to detail and offers so much value it'll make you think twice about buying from anywhere else again. Explore our own independent wineries who are quietly making the greatest wines our country has to offer.

Australia

South Australian Treasures

South Australia is the home to some of the most famous wine regions, best-known wineries and oldest vines in Australia. It’s also the birth place to the iconic big and juicy reds that have put this region on the radar for wine lovers across the globe. There are 18 wine regions in SA and the wines are best described as fruit forward, juicy, bold and generous with ripeness, decadence and richness. Common varieties you will find in SA include Riesling, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris, Shiraz, Grenache, Mataro, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir.

Multiregional South Australia, Australia

Australia

Coulter Wines

Coulter Wines are minimal intervention, small batch wines that focus on cleanliness and purity.Working as a winemaker for a large company for a number of years I always had a nagging desire to produce my own wine. After a chance meeting with a mate, who despite having limited access to resources was punching out fantastic small batch vino. This was the inspiration for Coulter Wines. Coulter Wines are wines made in a minimalist intervention/under processed while focusing on cleanliness and purity in the wines. I take it extremely seriously, while at the same time, really enjoying the journey and proud of the wines thus far. I source fruit from premium growers in the Adelaide Hills, Barossa Valley and Riverland. Fruit is handpicked and crushed same day. The Chardonnay is produced in the classic style. With the reds I maintain emphasis on whole bunch were suitable to add interest. All the reds are basket pressed post ferment and all wines are gravity fed. Limited time in barrel allows all the wines to retain their bright and vibrant fruitfulness. Wines are released within 6 months of production.C4 is an experimental label that will allow a change in variety & region, vintage to vintage and I'm excited about the external interest and personal freedom this label will create.I currently live in the Barossa Valley with my wife and 2 children and consider myself very lucky to be able to combine my career and passion in winemaking. I love everything about wine, making it, sharing it and especially the raw passion it evokes.The best is yet to come.Chris

Adelaide Hills, Australia

Australia

Wynns

Since the first vineyards were planted by visionary Scottish pioneer John Riddoch in 1891, Wynns Coonawarra Estate has built a reputation as the Coonawarra region’s pre-eminent wine producer. With the longest-established vineyards in the region, Wynns’ history is deeply intertwined with Coonawarra. Over the past two decades, our vineyards have been meticulously rejuvenated, resulting in wines which capture the true essence of the region.

Coonawarra, Australia

Japan

Grace Wines

Expressing the beauty of Japan in wineThere are four seasons in Japan where the creases are correct and vivid. The delicate taste sensibility and polite and robust technique cultivated in the Japanese culture are one of the individuality of Japanese culture.Grace Wine wants to select the goodness of Japan and wrap it in wine.Cultivation has been devised by interacting with natural conditions by selecting fields based on the sunlight, temperature difference between day and night, drainage, and wind flow.Harvesting is done by careful manual hand selection.Furthermore, work at the brewery that strives to bring out the power of the grapes grown in the field without damaging it. The family business has been handed down for about a century with the efforts of a long time. Japanese winemaking is directly linked to local agriculture, and Japanese handicrafts are honest, polite and solid.In 2014, Grace's White Wine Koshu opened the door to the world.Grace wants to further promote winemaking that expresses the goodness of Japan and continue to bring joy and healing to people.

Japan, Japan

Australia

Wine Animal

A new label collab between Wine Animal and Alkimi Wines

Yarra Valley, Australia

Australia

Tyrrell's

Tyrrell’s is as much a part of the fabric of the Hunter Valley as the Semillon and Shiraz vines they’ve been nurturing since their founder, English-immigrant Edward Tyrrell, first planted them during the mid-19th century.Having lived and breathed wine growing and winemaking in the Hunter Valley for more than 160 years, they've amassed an unrivalled knowledge of what makes the Hunter one of Australia’s, and indeed the world’s, greatest wine growing regions.

Hunter Valley, Australia

France

Loire Valley

Loire Valley, France

France

Alsace

Alsace, France

Australia

iHeartwine Private Cellar

Rare and collectable wines from iHeartwine's own private and personal cellar. If you know your wines, then you'll definitely know these wines. You won't find these anywhere else...except maybe through an Auction house every now and then. Unlike an Auction site, you are guaranteed provenance and quality. Every wine listed is in Mint Condition and has been stored and aged at a state of the art wine storage facility since leaving the winery.Very Limited Stocks so if you spot something you'd like to add to your own collection, be quick because once they're gone, they're gone for good!DRINK THOUGHTFULLY and DRINK BETTER!

Australia, Australia

Australia

Paradise IV

Paradise IV is an iconic winery of the past. Created by legendary winemaker Doug Neal, the Paradise IV vineyard was planted in Moorabool, Geelong, in 1848 by Swiss vigneron Jean- Henri Dardel and has produced some of Australia's greatest expressions of Shiraz! Sadly, the vines were destroyed in 2018 and the vineyard no longer exists making these incredibly rare and limited wines treasures amongst collectors.

Geelong, Australia

Australia

Giaconda

Giaconda vineyard was established by Rick Kinzbrunner, a mechanical engineer who became interested in wine in the early 1970's. Rick then spent the next ten years working in the industry, travelling and following his passion for wine. After a brief stint in New Zealand, he studied at Davis University in California and worked at some of the most respected wineries in the Napa and Sonoma Valleys (namely Stag's Leap, Simi and Matanzas Creek). In Europe he worked for the Moueix group in Bordeaux, co-owner of the fabled Chateau Petrus.After returning to Australia in 1980 to take up a position as assistant winemaker at Brown Brothers in Milawa, Rick purchased land in the nearby Beechworth wine region - at the foothills of the beautiful North-East Victorian Alps. Planting commenced in 1982 and the property is now devoted solely to Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Shiraz. A separate planting of Nebbiolo has also been established close to the Beechworth township at Red Hill. Total area under vines at the Giaconda Estate Vineyard is now 4 hectares. Annual wine production is approximately 2,500 dozen bottles.Rick’s son Nathan Kinzbrunner works full time at Giaconda and has done so since the 2007 vintage. His responsibilities include Assistant Winemaker and General Business Manager. Nathan also owns and manages a single hectare planting of Nebbiolo located at 'Red Hill' in Beechworth which produces fruit made under the Giaconda label.

Beechworth, Australia

Australia

Altera Terra

The project is the next chapter in the winemaking story of Doug Neal, formerly of the brilliant - and now no longer - Paradise IV.While the demise of the vineyard (which Neal did not own) is one of the more shocking and sad episodes in recent times, the legacy of the Paradise IV bottlings up to the final release 18 months ago left an indelible mark on the many fans amongst our customers. The wines also announced Neal as a formidable talent, albeit one who has flown under-the-radar for much of his winemaking career. Before Paradise IV finished, Neal had been working on the next stanza. His years learning under Giaconda's Rick Kinzbrunner as well as a growing list of consulting successes had honed his vision and understanding of the processes needed to give "voice" to ideas that had been percolating and taking form for decades.One of these was his aim to produce Shiraz that held elegance and nuance as well as density of flavour like those he had tasted in the northern Rhone valley (a feature of the Paraduse IV Dardel in fact) so when a mature vineyard, planted on granite, with multiple clones and at altitude in Murrumbateman became available for long term contract, the stars started to align on his new project, Altera Terra...Another Land.

Multiregional Victoria, Australia