Welcoming Granite Hills

Gordon and Heather Knight established Granite Hills in 1970. Their Rieslings have amassed hundreds of accolades for their superb quality and their benchmark peppery Shiraz was a precursor of the cool-climate winemaking philosophy in the country. Today, we’re fortunate to work with their son Llew, a cool-climate wine devotee himself, who creates distinctive cool-climate wines that are complex and age amazingly well.

The family-owned vineyard and winery is undoubtedly one of Australia’s highest and most picturesque - perched atop the remarkable boulder-strewn hills of the Great Dividing Range at 550-metres above sea level, it’s prized for producing award winning wines over the course of 50 vintages (and counting), thus making it one of the region’s most acclaimed wineries.

While the 12-hectare site enjoys higher altitude, it’s the broad range of aspects which give Llew an extensive range of varieties to compose with. The wind-shielded north-northwest sites home the Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon, while the southern sites see the Riesling, Grüner Veltliner and Chardonnay flourish. This truly idyllic location provides the best growing conditions, combined with old granitic sandy loam soils with good drainage, for the 50+ year-old vines. Llew nurtures these qualities through hand harvesting and cautious winemaking to fashion a style of wine celebrated for its definitive regionality, varietal expression, fine natural acidity and great cellaring potential.

We are proud to count Granite Hills’ curated collection of estate-grown wines in our portfolio and look forward to sharing them with our customers throughout Australia.

Welcoming Two Tonne Tasmania

Ricky Evans’ star has risen rapidly since the launch of his label Two Tonne Tasmania in earnest in 2013. Operations are a little more substantial than the eponymous two tonnes of Pinot Noir that he started with then, but his ethos remains the same: “Small parcels, big love”.

Sourcing fruit from the Tamar, Coal River and Derwent Valleys in Northern and Southern Tassie respectively, Ricky tends the fruit with full respect to the vineyard characteristics of each area. The personality of each cuvee is strikingly different, expressing true regional characters but with a common thread of liveliness and elegance.

This is the first label from Tasmania that Vinify has offered.

Welcoming La Violetta

Joining our portfolios in Victoria and South Australia, we have no doubt of the excellent potential these wines present for your venues. We look forward to a long relationship with AJ, and growing a brand already so well established in Australia’s contemporary wine culture.

When the opportunity to represent Andrew ‘AJ’ Hoadley’s La Violetta presented itself, it was hard to resist the lure of what is surely one of Western Australia’s modern wine icons.

Welcoming Sven Joschke Wines

Vinify is pleased to welcome Sven Joschke Wines to our VIC, NSW and SA portfolios.

“Sven Joschke has made some headway in the wine scene of South Australia, a slew of great releases has emerged from this label” - Mike Bennie

The wine industry is a small place, no matter how geographically extensive it may be. Veins of family and friendship run very deep, and our relationship with Sven Joschke is a testament to the importance of these ties.

Welcoming Marco Cirillo’s Estate Wines to our Victorian Portfolio

Vinify is pleased to welcome Cirillo Estate to our ever evolving Victorian portfolio.

Having had the pleasure of working with Marco Cirillo’s wines in the South Australian trade for the past two years, it was a natural evolution to start representing Cirillo in The Garden State.

Custodian of the oldest surviving Grenache and Semillon vineyards in the world, Marco’s family has deep roots in the Barossa Valley’s Vine Vale since their immigration from Italy in the mid-20th century. Perhaps more than any other maker in our portfolio, the vineyard is the identity of Cirillo, so much so that each wine’s label carries a distinctive portrait of the vines that birth them.

The range comprises top-shelf, contemporary Barossa wines made with the region’s classical varieties. Grenache is clearly the superstar here, with Marco’s ‘The Vincent’ Old Vine Grenache one the very best price/quality ratio wines in Australia.

Please contact Milly (0410 188 781, m.birch@vinifywineco.com.au) or Stuart (0430 370 330, stuart@vinifywineco.com.au) who will be happy to assist.

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