Rutherglen

Warmer months present a crisp, new twist to some Old World grape varieties in Rutherglen where innovative makers are creating superb, contemporary white wine styles perfect for these long, lazy days and languid, balmy nights.

Putting the fizz into festive. ‘Tis the season to celebrate and Rutherglen’s talented makers have crafted a sleigh-load of diverse and delectable red and white Australian sparkling wines to put the pop and fizz into every festive gathering.

Jen’s love of Gamay For the love of Gamay Jen Pfeiffer’s love affair with Gamay goes back to the very beginning of Pfeiffer Wines. Her parents, Chris and Robyn, bought their Wahgunyah property from Seppelts nearly 40…

One of a new breed of Rutherglen winemakers moving away from the region’s famously big, bold reds, Ricky sources his cool climate Sangiovese grapes from the Alpine Valleys and from talented Beechworth vigneron, Fighting Gully Road’s Mark Walpole, from whom he has learned much about making fabulous Italian wines.

There are more than 200 varieties in the muscat family, but only one is used to make Rutherglen Muscat – the high-quality Muscat a Petits Grains Rouge (muscat with little red berries). The local winemakers refer to it simply as Rutherglen Brown Muscat.

Durif is a rare red grape variety brought to Rutherglen from the south of France in 1908 by the eminent viticulturist Francois de Castella. The Rutherglen region had been brought to its knees by phylloxera, a vine aphid that decimated the region’s vineyards around the turn of the century.

Australian muscat is unlike any other wine on the planet. It’s complex, mysterious, enchanting, captivating and a true flavour experience. Muscat in Victoria’s Rutherglen dates back to 1860, so when you sample fortified wines from the region, many have been carefully tended by up to five generations of the one winemaking family.

Rutherglen Wine History Dig Gentlemen, Dig! Rutherglen’s wine history is thought to date back to some time in the mid to late 1850s when Lindsay Brown planted a four-acre vineyard on his ‘Gooramadda Run’. Regarded as the…