Collection: Flaxman

About the year 2004 Col and Fiona Shepard decided to move to the Eden Valley after Col spent a few months working vintage with a well known winery. You see he'd been bitten by the wine bug and so they relocated from Melbourne soon afterwards buying a little vineyard planted to Shiraz and Riesling. He makes Shiraz and Riesling from the home block and Cabernet, Grenache and Mataro from the vineyards of friends. Every wine is made with Col's care and attention where style and finesse are key to his wines.

When Col and Fiona left Melbourne to do a two week stint at Murray Street Vineyards in the Barossa they didn't expect that Col would decide then and there that they would settle in the valley. But they did. They bought a little vineyard high up in the Eden Valley along the Flaxman's Valley and the rest is history. They have since rejuvenated the vineyard and the quality of wines he produces from them along with some fruit he gets from his mates further down the valley is getting better and better. Of particular note his Sparkling Shiraz is one of the best of its type that come from the region. - Chris L