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About Barratt Wines
Barratt Wines, acclaimed for its award-winning Pinot Noir, is a boutique Adelaide Hills winery specializing in cool-climate varietal wines, handcrafted to exacting standards.
The vineyard was originally planted to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the Spring of 1983 by then owners, the Leith family after the property had been severely damaged by the devastating Ash Wednesday bushfires. In 1988, the property was sold to Ian Wilson, previously a partner of Grant Burge who together had established the highly successful Krondorf label. Ian had moved from the Barossa to the Hills to pursue his dream of producing Australia’s finest sparkling wine, a dream never realised because of financial difficulties and his untimely death at an early age.
Early pioneers of the Piccadilly Valley included Brian Croser who planted the first vineyard in the Valley in 1979 for the Petaluma label and Stephen George establishing the Ashton Hills label in the early 80’s. In 1992, the newly minted Barratt Wines became only the 11th wine label and one of the key founders of the Adelaide Hills region, a region which now boasts over 60 wine producers and a reputation for ultra-premium, cool-climate wine growing.
The vineyard was renamed ‘Uley’ by Carolyn after a beloved village in the English Cotswolds from whence Carolyn’s ancestors had migrated to Australia several generations earlier.
