Gippsland Wine Company

Gippsland Wine Company vigneron, Mark Heath, spent 40 years’ working across wine sales, marketing and production in Barossa Valley, Clare Valley and Yarra Valley before venturing into his own vineyards in Gippsland, finally settling at Loch. Mark’s long experience and knowledge of the industry prepared him for his role as Associate Judge at the Gippsland Wine Awards. As well as Loch Village Vineyard, Mark sought out neglected vineyards for long term contracts, coaxing them back to life rather than reverting them to grazing pasture. Site selection is invariably north-south planting to provide a bit of westerly leaf cover from the sun and wind.

Other Producers

About the Winery:

Lizelle Gerber, who took over the winemaking reins at Org de Rac at the end of 2021, is a seasoned Cape winemaker. She graduated from the famed Elsenburg Agriculture Institute and began to make her mark in the industry when joining Stellenbosch estate Zevenwacht in 1996.

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South Africa

About the Winery:

This wine comes from a land full of history. It is produced in the Southern French Languedoc-Roussillon, over four departments along the Mediterranean coast. Here, the northern mountains of the Pyrenees and the Cevennes, embrace the vineyards of the Pays d’Oc like an amphitheatre.

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France

About the Winery:

Nuits Folles is a burst full of energy. “La France” of the 1920’s, or The Roaring Twenties should we say! When the world was striving out of the first world war, partying and celebrating the beginning of the Golden Years.

Location:

France

About the Winery:

Carlo Gancia was born in Narzole, in 1829. In 1848 he moved to Reims, where he spent a few years engaged in learning the techniques of processing Champagne, before returning to Italy in 1850. That same year, Carlo Gancia, with his brother Edoardo, founded the “Fratelli Gancia” in Chivasso, Italy.

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Italy

About the Winery:

Our winemaking philosophy at Hare’s Chase is “To produce wines that are reflective of the region from where they are grown, and the grape variety from which they are made.”

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Australia

About the Winery:

Barossan brothers John and James Lienert have transformed the family farm on Barossa’s western edge into a viticultural wonderland. Sustaining the wellbeing of their land through regenerative agriculture, promoting diversity of clonal expression across Barossa’s heritage varieties, and pushing the boundaries with plantings of Roussanne, Piquepoul and Malbec.

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Australia