Our passion for farming and care for the land can only enrich our vines and resultant wines. Our vineyards and winery span across the Yarra Valley to the Mornington Peninsula. Both estates producing unique qualities that transcend into our wines.

How we started
It was in a small village named Semi Vicoli located in Abruzzo Italy during the 1930’s that our family established the original vineyard. During the periods post the second world war the family left their hometown and migrated to Australia. There was a period of time where new homes in a new country were sought and the passion for farming had to wait.

The choice to set up our vineyards in Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley were due to the diversity in climatic conditions of the two areas. We were after an area that we could have some control on the growing conditions our vines would be subjected to as it was paramount they were not overly stressed during their growing period. The Mornington Peninsula fulfilled our requirements with it’s maritime growing conditions and cooling afternoon ocean breezes and the Yarra Valley for its mountainous terrain.

The Future
One of our current projects is that we are trialling a number of different Sangiovese clones in an endeavour to discover the most suitable clone to produce high quality Chianti influenced wines.

Wine Making
Dino Giammarino has been exposed to vineyards and wine making since the age of 6. Recently he has taken over more of the wine making duties whilst his parents Vittoria and Nicoletta Giammarino meticulously attend to the vineyard. It is truly our belief that our wines are a reflection of the efforts we put into the vineyard each year along with emphasis we place on the health of our soils which are the life line to our vines.

Our Methods
Where possible we make all efforts to utilise gravity to move our wines from ferment tanks to press, to barrels to bottling line in an effort to preserve all the aromas and palate qualities obtained through each process.

Our Barrels
The choice of barrels is such a paramount one when wine making. The balance between the barrels we choose to utilise and the final expression of our wines after spending 10-12 months in these barrels is a delicate balance.

Hand Harvest
With the amount of effort we place in the vineyard through out the entire year, when the fruits of our dedicated work are to ready to be harvested we choose to hand harvest all of our grapes. The diversity of conversations between pickers on these days makes it worth while as people who have not met each other before get to introduce them selves and hopefully make new companions from the day.

Our Helpers
Our vineyard relies so heavily on the belief and assistance of others, who help us attend to the vineyard needs. We have a wonderful group of people that devote their energies to keeping our farm as sustainable as possible.