Hewitson is a Barossa Valley winery whose estate lies along the banks of the Para River on the historic Seppeltsfield Road. Its owner and winemaker, affectionately known as the Mad Hatter, has spent a lifetime with vines, from planting vines and collecting wine labels as a child to vintages in Oregon's Willamette Valley and the Adelaide Hills. The philosophy is that great wines express their soils and seasons, and Hewitson explores exciting new takes on traditional varieties and blends.
The winery's great treasure is The Old Garden, planted in 1853 by Friedrich Koch on land at Rowland Flat bought in 1844, and renowned as the oldest Mourvèdre vines on Earth. Just eight rows of these dry-grown, pre-phylloxera Barossa Ancestor vines still grow on their own roots. A single 1853 Shiraz vine found in the middle of The Old Garden has been propagated, bud by bud, into one hectare of ancient selection clonale vines with their own flavour and tannin profile, and baby bush Mourvèdre was struck from the Old Garden mother vines in 1997.
Each year the best barrels from the Old Garden and Monopole vineyards, both of exclusively 1853 provenance, are blended into the BARREL 1853 Shiraz Mourvèdre. The winery combines state-of-the-art and traditional practices with a soft footprint on the land, paying close attention to drainage, soil health and biodiversity.
Regions
Wines
- Hewitson Baby Bush Mourvèdre — Red
- Hewitson Barossa Shiraz — Red
- Hewitson Barossa Valley Rose — Rosé
- Hewitson Barrel 1853 Shiraz Mourvèdre — Red
- Hewitson Basham's Beach Single Vineyard Fleurieu Tempranillo — Red
- Hewitson Belle Ville Barossa Valley Rose — Rosé
- Hewitson Cabernet Sauvignon The Dorrien Bank — Red
- Hewitson Carignan Syrah Cinsault Truffle Row — Red
- Hewitson Carignan Syrah Truffle Row — Red
- Hewitson Eden Valley Riesling — White
- Hewitson Grenache — Red
- Hewitson Grenache Blends Miss Harry Barossa Valley Harriet's Blend — Red
- Hewitson Gun Metal Eden Valley Riesling — White
- Hewitson L?Oizeau Shiraz — Red
- Hewitson LuLu-V Viognier — White
- Hewitson Mermaids Lite Dry White — White
- Hewitson Minimal Intervention Barossa Sangiovese — Red
- Hewitson Minimal Intervention Fleurieu Tempranillo — Red
- Hewitson Miss Harry Barossa Valley Grenache Mourvedre Shiraz Cinsault Carignan — Red
- Hewitson Miss Harry Grenache Shiraz Mourvèdre — Red
- Hewitson Monopole Mother Vine Shiraz — Red
- Hewitson Mourvèdre Cinsault Belle Ville Rosé — Rosé
- Hewitson Ned & Henry's Barossa Valley Shiraz Mourvedre — Red
- Hewitson Ned & Henry's Shiraz — Red
- Hewitson Old Garden Vineyard Mourvèdre — Red
- Hewitson Private Cellar Barossa Valley Grenache — Red
- Hewitson Private Cellar Barossa Valley Shiraz Mourvèdre — Red
- Hewitson Private Cellar Basham's Beach Tempranillo — Red
- Hewitson Private Cellar Falkenberg Vineyard Barossa Valley Shiraz — Red
- Hewitson Private Cellar PMVG-08 Chardonnay — White
- Hewitson Sauvignon Blanc LuLu — White
- Hewitson Shiraz Blends Barrel 1853 — Red
- Hewitson Shiraz Falkenberg — Red
- Hewitson Shiraz LuLu — Red
- Hewitson Shiraz The Ancients — Red
- Hewitson Shiraz The Mad Hatter — Red
- Hewitson The Dorrien Bank Barossa Valley Shiraz — Red
- Hewitson The Mad Hatter Single Vineyard McLaren Vale Shiraz — Red
- Hewitson The Mother Vine Single Vineyard Barossa Valley Shiraz — Red
- Hewitson Truffle Row Barossa Valley Shiraz Marsanne Roussanne — Red
- Hewitson Ungrafted Grenache — Red
- Hewitson Wh Blend Private Cellar Barossa Valley White — White
- Hewitson White Blend Madame M Blanc & Blanc — White