About
Hewitson
We are situated in the heart of the Barossa Valley on the historic Seppeltsfield Road and boasts some of the oldest vines in the world. Our fruit is sourced from dry-grown, pre-Phylloxera vineyards of the Barossa Valley and also single-site vineyards in Eden Valley and the Adelaide Hills. The oldest Mourvèdre vines on Earth are not in Europe. The Old Garden Mourvèdre Vineyard was planted by Friedrich Koch in 1853 and is renowned as the oldest of this grape variety in the world. At over 165 years old, (older than Adelaide’s oldest building), just eight rows of these dry grown pre-phylloxera tri-centenarian, Barossa Ancestor vines still flourish on their original roots today. The much-lauded single vineyard wine produced from this fruit is our Old Garden Mourvèdre.
