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About Stanton & Killeen Wines
Stanton & Killeen is one of Australia’s oldest family-owned wineries with a strong reputation for blending the old with the new. The team at Stanton & Killeen continue the legacy of producing award winning barrel-aged fortifieds and vintage fortifieds as well as having fun with 14 different grape varieties, of which half are Portuguese. The cellar door in Rutherglen offers an exciting mix of rare and unusual wines
including sparkling tempranillo. arinto and alvarinho and old favourites such as shiraz durif, muscat and torque.
At Stanton & Killeen, innovation is blended with tradition, celebrating seven generations and 150 years of family winemaking. Today, the business is owned and managed by mother- daughter team Wendy and Natasha Killeen.
The winery is best known for alternative Portuguese varieties, flavoursome Rutherglen red wine and continuing Stanton & Killeen’s long custodianship of award-winning Muscats, Topaques and Vintage Fortifieds. In 2022, the business successfully passed a rigorous audit for both the vineyard and winery, becoming officially Freshcare certified through Sustainable Winegrowing Australia.
Celebrating seven generations and 145 years of family winemaking, our glass is always half full at S&K. Today the business is owned and managed by mother-daughter team Wendy and Natasha Killeen with a focus on Portuguese varieties, flavoursome Rutherglen red wine and continuing the long tradition of award-winning Muscats, Topaques, Tawnys and Vintage Fortifieds.
It all began in the 1850s when the Stanton family travelled from England to try their luck on the Victorian gold fields. It wasn’t long before they turned their attention to the liquid gold that came from vines and the Stantons worked hard to establish a vineyard and winery that endured many setbacks such as phylloxera, drought and the Great Depression.
The two families came together when Norman Killeen married Jack Stanton’s daughter, Joan and in 1954 she gave birth to 6th generation winemaker Chris Killeen. In 1968 the business name was changed to ‘Stanton & Killeen Wines’ and thus started a new phase in the history of the winery.
