Rutherglen Estates Vineyard

In the 1990s, when the interest and demand for Australian table wine was increasing tremendously, an extensive search by a group of passionate wine professionals, for an area suitable for producing an innovative range of regional wines, led back to Rutherglen, and in 1996 Rutherglen Estates was born.

Teaming with a leading vineyard development group, RE vineyards management, the first vine were planted in 1997.

With new concepts, management techniques and cutting edge technology, we now have a total of 308 hectares (over 700 acres) 'under vine' on five sites within the region, the largest vineyard development the region has ever seen.

Our state of the art winery was completed in 2001, and now processes up to 3000 tonne of grape annually, predominantly from our own vineyards, but also for some local growers.
Approximately 25% of the wine we produce is for our own wine range, the balance is for large wine companies who also recognise the regions potential as a premium fruit source.