Vinelea Wines
About
We are passionate about conservation, and the health of our land and the vineyard in particular. The care and attention taken to all vineyard work and winemaking results in high quality, intensely flavoured wine.
Location Description
Located in the heart of Beechworth, Victoria.
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The Team
Practices & Techniques
Our wine making philosophy is nothing new - in fact, that's the point; it's the way that the best of the European vignerons have been making wine for centuries - minimal intervention, clean healthy fruit, yeast from the vineyard, the best French oak that we can afford, long, slow maturation, minimal fining & filtering of the white wines and none for the reds. Stuart has been fortunate to work with Barry Morey and Ken Folkes at Sorrenberg vineyard, people for whom he has the highest regard and respect, and with whom he shares a similar philosophy on vineyard and winemaking practices.
Estate Vineyards / AVA
The soil is fairly typical of the central section of the Beechworth GI - thin A-horizon, then highly decomposed buckshot gravel over clay. The subsoil has deep veins of clay streaked with coarse granitic source rock in the relatively early stages of decay. The geology is highly heterogeneous with common variation in the granite and numerous fine grained metamorphic intrusions - this is probably the origin of the Beechworth gold.