All Saints Estate

Region:

Australia, Victoria, North East Victoria, Rutherglen

Address:

All Saints Road, Wahgunyah, VIC, 3687, Australia

Website:

http://www.allsaintswine.com.au

Description:

All Saints Estate is a family owned winery established in 1864 and located on the banks of the Murray River in Wahgunyah, Victoria. Original owners George Sutherland Smith, born in 1830, and his friend John Banks, born in 1833, arrived from Cathiness, Scotland in 1852. They were 23 and 20 years of age, and settled in the Wahgunyah area in 1864. They had both trained as engineers at the Edinburgh Railway Institute. They built a bridge over the Edwards River at Deniliquin during their first years in Australia as well as buildings in Beechworth including the Presbyterian Church, part of the gaol and the original hospital of which the façade still remains. Wahgunyah had been first settled by Mr Faithfull, who acquired ‘Bonthorambo’, but he did not stay due to trouble with the indigenous Australians. The first permanent settler was the Rev. J.B Docker who, in 1838, settled at Bonthorambo and held all the land from the Ovens River to the Murray River as a cattle run. Rev. Docker did not retain the whole Ovens River to Murray River District for long as other squatters moved in, among whom was James Lindsay Brown who became the pioneer vinegrower of the Rutherglen district. Smith and Banks began growing vines at ‘Sunday Creek’ nearer to Wahgunyah than present All Saints Estate winey, before coming to where the 'castle' is, three miles north of Wahgunyah, in 1869. The partners took up 100 acres and proceeded with planting vines in earnest whilst also constructing the pise cellars made from the estate soil. An 'Argus' supplement of 1888 dealing with the Melbourne Exhibition stated that the All Saints Estate castle was built over the original pise building housing the maturing wine, which was left undisturbed over this time.

Email:

customerservice@allsaintswine.com.au

Phone:

+61 2 6035 2222

Fax:

+61 2 6035 2200