Ridgemill Estate
About
Ridgemill estate is a boutique winery and is an ideal location for a weekend away. Fill your days with the freshest local produce, beautiful scenery, gourmet delights and a diverse range of award-winning wines. Tastings are available via our Cellar Door – which is open Thursday – Monday. All our wines are available to taste. A list of our wines with tasting notes is available for you to select from; or work your way through, starting from the dry whites through to the sweet reds and dessert wines. Jill can assist you with any questions about our wines; or help you with suggestions. Remember: we promote responsible drinking, so watch how much you consume.
Location Description
Located near Stanthorpe in the heart of the Granite Belt – Queensland’s premium wine growing region. Located just 2 ½ hours from Brisbane and only a 10-minute drive from the township of Stanthorpe.
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History
Estate Vineyards / AVA
The Granite Belt is a range, hilly and sometimes mountainous. This creates varied soil depths on the edge of the hills to soils that are rocky and shallow with coarse granite sandy/clay. In the valleys the soils are deeper with fine granitic sandy soils with the clay layer deeper while on the creek flats, which are few and far between, the soil is much deeper and finer.
As the name Granite Belt suggests our region is predominately made of granitic sandy soil with a clay layer at depth. The soil at Severnlea is fairly typical of the soil profile of the Granite belt. The soil type is important at this altitude because of lower sunlight levels. With the reflective nature of granitic sandy soils light is reflected back of the ground increasing sunlight exposure to the ripening grapes.
This soil type is generally poor in nutrients and on the acidic side on the pH scale. While this can be seen as a disadvantage for most crops, at ridgemill estate we believe that it is a positive. Grape vines and their associated rootstocks are by nature efficient users of nutrients able to thrive in otherwise poor conditions. High vigour and in some cases uncontrollable vines, affect the quality of the fruit. The poor soils of the Granite Belt allow the viticulturist to add nutrients as required, keeping the vines in balance and producing quality fruit.