Our Wines

The Winery
Greg and Jady Roberts operate a small boutique winery and label in the Yarra Valley.

The vineyard comprises of four acres of vines, planted in two stages 1997 and 2002 dedicated to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Wonga Estate is a low yielding vineyard – one to two tonne to the acre, with movement towards organic cultivation. Our vines are hand pruned and the grapes are hand picked.
Wonga Estate wines are handcrafted: whole bunches, foot treading, open ferments, basket pressed, minimally handled and in most cases unfiltered. The Wonga Estate Heathcote Shiraz fruit comes from low yielding dry grown old vines planted in Heathcote’s rare Cambrian soil.

Chardonnay & Pinot Giftpack	Autumn in the vineyard across the dam	Processing the shiraz pulp	Processing shiraz grapes 2007

Winery building	Processing shiraz grapes 2007	Boys will be boys	Basket press

Quality is of course, our focus and we think this is reflective of the quality of the wines released under the Wonga Estate label to date.
Our wines are only available through Cellar Door by appointment only and are found in the best known restaurants around Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.

In 2002 we handpicked 2 tonne of shiraz fruit from the Colbinabbin area of Heathcote. The Cambrian earth for which the area is famous has become the most prized of soil profiles, existing in a long double band starting South of Heathcote and extending some 35km to the North of Colbinabbin.
It is these 500 million year old volcanic soils that are the source of such exceptional Shiraz. 2002 was a surprising year in that crops throughout the Heathcote region were well down to as little as 25 per cent in some vineyards. Thus producing intense full bodied styles.

Frost affects the vines	Winery building and function centre	The harvest being loaded into hoppers	Chardonnay vines in late spring

View of the newly planted vineyards	Crushing the grape	Processing the crushed grapes	3 bottle gift pack of wines

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