VIGNERONS SCHMÖLZER AND BROWN

BEECHWORTH

Vignerons Schmölzer & Brown is the partnership of Tessa Brown, winemaker and viticulturist & Jeremy Schmölzer, Architect. We planted our vineyard, Thorley, in the highest part of the Beechworth GI in 2014 and 2015. We both work in the vineyard and winery to grow vines and make wines with precision, balance and drinkability. In all but the most challenging years, we grow our vines using organic practises. We are currently contructing our winery and home, which is off-grid solar. In the winery we work simply to not lose the purity of the fruit we’ve generally worked pretty hard to grow well. We would class ourselves as minimal intervention, high altitude specialists. You could even say sub-alpine, given much of our production is from vineyards over 700m ASL.

We make a range of wines from Beechworth and the King Valley. The Thorley wines are solely from our farm. The Brunnen vineyard is a tiny parcel of vines across the road from us owned by our neighbours, which we've been working with since 2014. The Obstgarten wines are from a Riesling vineyard in Whitlands, King Valley. Our Prêt-à-Blanc, Prêt-à-Rosé and Prêt-à-Rouge wines are all blends, assembled with an eye to easy drinking.

Click on the link to our shop below for the entire range.