Meadowbank

High in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley, hidden at the end of a winding dirt road, lies a place that is shimmering with life.  Playing witness each year to a dance-like ritual between warm days and cool nights, Meadowbank produces fruit of a near ethereal quality.  

When farmer Gerald Ellis started planting vines on his sheep farm in 1976, conventional wisdom said you couldn’t grow grapes in the cold wilderness of southern Tasmania.  Despite being told “it can’t be done”, Gerald did.  Meadowbank is now regarded as a Tasmanian pioneer and iconic vineyard with a focus on stewardship, family and fun!

From defiant origins and now with purposeful intent, the Meadowbank team including celebrated winemaker Peter Dredge, grow and make wines that speak deliciously of time and place.