Description
Our family wine business began its journey in the early 1990s when owners Robert and Mem Kirby planted their first vineyard in Red Hill on the Mornington Peninsula – a renowned cool climate wine region, just one hour from Melbourne. By the late 1990s, the family had firmly established its vision for the future, planting significant vineyards in two of Victoria’s most exciting wine growing regions.
Yabby Lake Vineyard was established in 1998, in Tuerong on the Mornington Peninsula. In 1999, Heathcote Estate was planted on the ancient 500 million old Cambrian soils of Heathcote in central Victoria. Led by acclaimed winemaker and wine judge Tom Carson since 2008, the philosophy at Yabby Lake and Heathcote Estate is to craft wines that speak clearly of the site and the season in which they were grown.
Our long-standing winemaking team Tom Carson and Luke Lomax, have many decades of combined experience at both Yabby Lake and Heathcote Estate. Their understanding of the subtle nuances of each vineyard, and the lessons each passing vintage provides, allows them to craft wines that are truly expressive of these special sites.
Yabby Lake Vineyard, est. 1998
Yabby Lake Vineyard is renowned for single vineyard chardonnay and pinot noir of great purity and character. The vineyard has also gained a loyal following for its ‘Single Block Release’ program – identifying individual parcels which stand out for their unique personality, bottled separately in tiny quantities and only made in select vintages.
