We’re true believers that the best wines are created naturally, from the ground up. Just like ‘paddock to the plate’ is to food, our growing philosophy is ‘soil to the wine’. Our vineyards are rich in natural nutrients and jam-packed with living organisms that naturally enrich the soil, the vines and the grapes they bear. It’s the natural foundation for the premium wine we make.

Founder Leon Hill – is a direct descendant of John Hill who arrived as the Bosun on HMS Buffalo to participate in the establishment of the colony of South Australia in 1836.

Having family and friends with over 100 years of wine industry experience, and a 6th generation Great Grandfather “John Hill” who was the Bosun and founded South Australia having lifted the 1st flag back on Proclamation day on December 28 in 1836 with Governor Hindmarsh and Colonel Light, which then led to Hill & Co (South Australia’s first wine haulage originally business based in Kapunda in the Barossa Valley and Willunga right near McLaren Vale), then Cobb & Co, then along comes Clem Hill (Australian Cricket Captain).

So I guess that pioneering and entrepreneurial flair had to have come from somewhere, and when your family comes out on the Buffalo from UK as free settlers sent by King William IV to have firstly founded the State of South Australia it’s something pretty special I reckon!

Grown ‘from the ground up’ we’ve now focussed our 100 plus years of family history and over 20 years’ personal experience in the wine industry on growing and making a super-premium wine for Australian wine lovers.