Di Fabio Estate Wines

About

Di Fabio Estate Wines is a family owned and operated business. The Di Fabio family has a long history of grape-growing, winemaking and supplying premium quality grapes to some of Australia's leading wineries.

Location Description

Situated in the heart of the famous McLaren Vale wine producing area of South Australia.

Features

  • Supplying premium quality grapes to some of Australia's leading wineries.

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Winemaker

Our winemaking team is headed by Goe DiFabio.

Graduating from Roseworthy College in 1981, Goe's ambition for exploration within his profession has seen him gain invaluable experience throughout Australia and also in an international winemaking context.

Above all, Goe's passion and dedication to the perfection of robust structures and delicate boquets, along with his hands-on approach, gives Di Fabio Estate Wines a leading edge in delivering a high quality product.

"Goe brings to the Willunga Creek camp a worldly approach to winemaking gained from exposure to techniques used across the globe. He too, believes in a 'minimalist intervention' approach, favouring methods that allow the essence of the grapes to fully express themselves."

History

Not long after emigrating from Italy, our parents Giovanni and Maria Di Fabio purchased their first vineyard in 1966, now nostalgically referred to as The Old House. Purchased from the Moritz family, our Blewitt Springs property boasts vines from the original settlement. Having forged their residence from ironstone gathered from nearby creeks, the property is emblematic of the region’s unspoilt natural surroundings.

Predominating in the region at that time was the production of stone fruits. Endless summer holidays were spent in what Goe refers to as the “dreaded apricot shed” drying and sorting fruits. However, the days of their stone fruit harvests were numbered, as a few years on, one fell blow of an apricot branch onto Maria’s head resulted in a trip to the hospital. Fed up, Giovanni ordered a bulldozer to the orchard the next day. Needless to say, that was the end of the family’s stone fruit endeavour.

Much preferring viticulture, our family took to establishing new vineyards, with many of the vines now over 40 years old and still producing bountiful crops to this day. Our family has retained original Moritz plantings, dating back to 1936.

Our livelihood was challenged in the 1980’s, with a wine oversupply, and during its peak, heartbreak came at the end of the vintage as we were forced to leave fruit on the vines. Through the banding together of the wine community, some equilibrium was eventually restored to the industry after with Vine Pull Scheme in 1985. Gradually, the results of our hard work progressed from mere survival to earning a modest livelihood.

The family owns approximately 140 acres situated in Blewitt Springs and McLaren Flat, located within the famous McLaren Vale wine region. Having built our winery in 1993, today our business is still run by our family, with all the passion and enthusiasm from the roots of our yesteryear.

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Address

61/63 Oakley Rd
McLaren Flat, South Australia 5171
Australia

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