Austins Wines - The Region

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Golden Plains Farmers Market at Bannockburn - first Saturday of every month

We have our current range of wines for sale along with sundry older vintages on the first Saturday of every month 9.00am - 1pm at the Bannockburn Farmers Market.

Audi Week 2010 - J

Audi Victoria Week Event 2010.

Geelong Night Markets - 2010

Held in Johnstone Park over four consecutive January Fridays, the Geelong night Markets were another fabulous opportunity for us to get out and about in our own backyard and meet some of the people who make Austins Wines so popular.

Austins at the Gorker Gallery

Austins recently attended the Gorker Gallery

Austins is situated in the heart of the Moorabool Valley, a sub-region of Geelong.

Though one of Australia’s most recently recognised sub-regions, the Moorabool Valley can trace its wine industry roots back to the early 1840s, when Swiss immigrants began planting vines. These were some of the earliest plantings in Victoria.

The area suffered badly in the second half of the nineteenth century when phylloxera (a grapevine pest) and bureaucracy combined to destroy the region.

The Moorabool Valley re-emerged in the first days of the Victorian wine industry's renaissance, in the 1960s.

Today, the Moorabool Valley produces high quality fruit for both white and red wine. In terms of style, these wines sit between those from the Yarra Valley and the Mornington Peninsula.

It is a region of great promise and one that can harness the generosity of the Australian circumstance and offer wines of grace and finesse.