A T Richardson Wines

About

After a 10-year search, we selected this very special terroir of our Hard Hill Road Vineyard site to call home and craft our Chockstone and Hard Hill Road labels. With its own special microclimate, the Hard Hill Road Vineyard’s cool ripening conditions and naturally low-yielding vines produce wines with layers of intense flavours and a velvety structure. Like many of the best wines in this historic region, our wines are approachable in their youth and possess the potential to age gracefully. We purchased our property in 2005 while we were still living in America, and planted out first blocks of Shiraz, Riesling and Durif in 2006. 2007 was the first vintage of ATR wines, and we made just 200 dozen from neighbour’s vines. We spent the next 10 years improving our vineyards, planting more vines and new varieties (including Durif, Nebbiolo and Tannat) and in 2016 the time was right to pack up Eva and the kids and make the big move down under full time. Since we first planted our vines, our focus has been to create modern, cutting edge wines from our historic Grampians region, both from traditional varieties, as well as some lesser known varieties. My passion is to look back on history to determine the potential of what can be done in the future. We are one of the few vineyards to plant Nebbiolo in the Grampians, and the only winemaker to grow Tannat and Petite Sirah (also known as Durif), and we use these varieties with a novel approach to create a series of unique and engaging red wine blends.