Curlewis Winery

About

Come and experience our boutique winery with its unique underground cellar. Sample our highly acclaimed handcrafted, Burgundian style wines and learn about our artisan wines and old world style winemaking. The winery produces their premium “Curlewis” brand and a second label called “Bellarine Selection.” Their flagship award winning Reserve Pinot Noir retails at approximately $60 a bottle.

Location Description

Situated in the heart of the beautiful Bellarine Peninsula.

Features

  • Producing outstanding wines.

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History

The winery was established in 1998 by Rainer Breit & Wendy Oliver with the first vintage produced that year. Owner’s Stefano Marasco & Leesa Freyer say “the combination of the old vines, deep rich soil and the amazing palate of winemaker Rainer Breit, creates the unique and superior Pinot Noir wine of Curlewis.

Practices & Techniques

“We absorb the wine-making styles of Burgundy and Rhone in particular but set out to take advantage of our more consistent climate and some of the better new techniques to create wines of greater concentration and flavour ripeness yet still with the full length of palate that goes with ultra premium wines the world over.

Success for us is a Grand Cru Burgundy drinker who buys our wine because in her opinion it almost reaches that quality at a tenth of the price.”

Our wine making philosophy involves as little interference with the natural grape juice as possible. The grapes are handpicked and hand sorted, wild yeast ferments, syphoning not pumping, no fining or filtering.

Estate Vineyards / AVA

Curlewis Winery is located on the Bellarine Peninsula and enjoys a cool maritime climate. The main vineyard consists of 4 acres of 33 year old MV6 Pinot Noir vines. The soil is black cracking clay over limestone-marl which gives richness, depth of colour plus minerality to our Pinots. The vines rarely produce more than 1.5 tons per acre. A further 3 acres of Pinot Noir Pommard clone was planted approximately eight years ago has been harvested in the 2012 vintage for the first time. This pommard clone will add to and enhance the tannin structure of the wine and provide further complexity to our Pinots.

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Address

55 Navarre Rd
Curlewis , Victoria 3222
Australia

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