Hamilton's Ewell Vineyards
Hamilton's Ewell Vineyards were once one of Australia's three largest wine exporters with Penfolds Wines and the old Emu Wine Company.
Hamilton's Ewell Vineyards has its roots in South Australia's first vineyard planted by Richard Hamilton, seven miles from the Adelaide General Post Office, on the banks of the Sturt River near Glenelg, South Australia, in 1837 with wine from its fruit first bottled in 1841.
Between 1945 and the late 1960s, the company exported more than half of its production. At the end of the 1970s, Hamilton's Ewell Vineyards was one of Australia's largest wine producers, crushing 12,000 tonnes of grapes from five wineries in four regions to produce more than one million cases of wine and spirits annually.
The original Hamilton's Ewell Vineyards was sold lock stock and barrel to Mildara Wines Limited to the disappointment of Mark Hamilton, then the youngest director, in 1979. Further acquisitions of Krondorf Wines Pty Ltd and Wolf Blass Wines Ltd by Mildara; saw the progressive rationalisation and, finally, the disappearance of the Hamilton's brand by 1988.
'I had hoped to be the sixth generation to run the family winery. The demise of more than 150 years worth of collective family effort in the original company was a great disappointment and, ultimately, motivation to me to re-establish the brand in the name and spirit of the original Hamilton's Ewell Vineyards', Mark says. He and his wife Deborah have spent the past eight years securing the business name and trademarks of Hamilton's Ewell Vineyards in Australia and overseas and building the largest private holding of vineyards on the Barossa Valley floor.
The first major crush in twelve years supervised by Mr Hamilton and father Robert, the last Chairman of Directors and Managing Director of the original Hamilton's Ewell Vineyards has produced for initial release, a range of premium big red and white Barossa Valley wines made from one hundred per cent Barossa Valley fruit including Fuller's Barn and Railway Shiraz wines. The Shiraz wines recently won bronze medals in the open Barossa Valley Shiraz class at the Barossa Wine Show, against many icon products in what is arguably the hottest Shiraz competition in the world.
Hamiltons Ewell Vineyards are situated between two towns Tanunda and Nuriootpa along Barossa Valley Highway.
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