Vintage 2021 has officially started with delivery of our first grapes

As Vintage 2021 Approaches, preparations in the vineyard and winery continue. Not long now!

Barossa Vintage Festival 2021, an Event not be Missed. Enjoy Wine, Food, Community. Your opportunity to play your part in Vintage 2021

Sustainability is a broad concept, it is more than Organics and requires and ongoing and broad minded commitment to the Estate Ecosystem

2020 has been a challenge! With only 8 weeks until Christmas, now is a good time to be thinking about everyone you need to thank for helping navigate this year and we’d love to help you out.

Wine and Art have a natural affinity, at Hayes Family Wines we celebrate emerging artists featuring them in our cellar door and on the labels of our Blanc and Rouge releases

Winemaking is essentially a natural process, but it is what you don’t add that is beginning to be noticed

Grenache Shiraz Mataro, or GSM, a cornerstone of what we do at Hayes Family Wines in the Barossa Valley

Pruning. The weather is cold, often wet, you could say an almost unsociable activity, but of everything we do each year, pruning has the most significant impact on the ultimately ends up in the bottle

2020 Marananga Wine Show Best Grenache Trophy - 2019 Hayes Family Wines Estate Grenache Blk 2

The Barossa Cellar - A Great Tribute to the People of the Barossa

At Hayes Family Wines, we are once again very excited to announce some fantastic third party reviews for our wines. This time, Steve Leszczynski at Q Wine Reviews.

Here at Hayes Family Wines, we are once again very excited to announce our fantastic results in the 2021 James Halliday Wine Companion.

We were very excited to hear that Hayes Family Wines is one of The Real Review Top Wineries of Australia for 2020. The Real Review team tasted wines from over 1,600 wineries in Australia and New Zealand to compile their Top Wineries list this year.

Well, COVID has presented its share of challenges. Some have been managed with relative ease, and have provided a bit of fun along the way. The border controls have put a bit of a spanner in the works though! We recently completed the blending exercise for the 2020 whites, including the 2020 Semillon…

Vintage 2020 started under cloudy skies, the world facing once in a generation challenges and our vineyards under the stresses of the season. Fortunately, we were able to continue with vintage pretty much business as usual (albeit with me camped in the cellar door for a month).

Since my last update many parts of Australia have experienced severe heatwaves and we have seen some of the most devastating bushfires in Australia’s history…