“Nature herself is the author of wine. Nothing added nothing lost”

Award Winners.

We’re honoured to have received a Gold Medal from Wine Showcase Magazine for our 2017 GilGraves Rosé, receiving 93 points overall.

This wine is a pale golden peach colour with abundant aromatics, including apricot and rose petal. It features apricot, dried apple, strawberry and slight rosemary spice.

This low intervention wine has minimal sulphur and is a refreshingly savoury dry wine.

What people are saying about GilGraves Wines

The GilGraves family vineyard is a pint-sized affair in Axedale, located somewhere between Heathcote and Bendigo. They’ve been releasing small batch wines eked out off their own plot, and here bolstered with fruit from Chalmers in Heathcote. The wines are produced by the crew at Boomtown. It’s all great fun, kinda cool, and the resulting wine is great! And value! They’re down that natural wine pathway somewhere in winemaking/growing, as a reference. Not much not to like here.
- Mike Bennie, Wine Front (winefront.com.au)

2020 Viognier

Viognier from lovely humans done righteously. The humble GilGraves label is often on my radar. Smells like cashew and ripe citrus, whiffs of sea spray and fino sherry in there too. Slurpy texture but hassled by that minerally saltiness, rolls long, finishes fresh, zingy even. Real thirst quenching kind of style here, though you'd also say quietly complex too. This is an excellent expression.
- Mike Bennie, wine critic and published author

2019 SMS GilGraves Field Blend

Shiraz, malbec, sangiovese. I like this GilGraves outfit very much. Pure and delicious wines. Squeaky textured and bright and vibrant, very fresh, pure feeling, cherry juice and cranberry, good dusting of sweet spice, faint fennel and mint notes. So lovely. Pretty medium weight, the silkiest of tannins. Such a great drink here.
- Mike Bennie, wine critic and published author

Our vineyard is located near Axedale, half way between Bendigo and Heathcote in central Victoria.

In 2011 we started developing the vineyard, planting four varieties of vines, Shiraz, Malbec, Sangiovese and Viognier. We now have 2550 vines. We consider nature herself to be the author of wine, hence we employed minimal intervention principles from the beginning with the dorper sheep being responsible for weed control.

Just as in food we believe in the principle of nothing added nothing lost. We are uniting the wine growing and wine making low intervention principles to produce authentic soulful wines.

Our first vintage was in March 2017 and until 2021 we produced a Shiraz/Malbec and Sangiovese field blend. In 2022 we had sufficient quantities of each variety to make a Shiraz/Viognier, a Malbec and a Sangiovese.