Burnt Acre Vineyard

Burnt Acre Vineyard was purchased by Cliff Stubbs & Maureen O'Connor in 1989, and named 'Burnt Acre' after a 1991 grass fire.

With 25 years of winemaking Cliff & Maureen produce wines that are ripe and full of flavour, but also soft with fine tannins and a lingering finish. Wines that reflect the place where they are grown, but also the season in which they have grown, as no two years are the same. Vintage variation is a highlight of small vineyard production.

Small batch hands-on winemaking and gentle basket pressing are part of the methods used to create these wines; wines that you sense were crafted by people who truly love making them.

Visits include meeting the people who grow the grapes and make the wines with an insight to the lifestyle and passion of a small winemaking business. By appointment only.

A minimal spray program in the vineyard allows us to grow clean, chemical-free grapes, and subsistence irrigation keeps both cropping levels and berry size small.