Brokenwood Wines

Brokenwood is a wine producer in Australia's Hunter Valley. It was established in 1970 as a joint venture between Tony Albert, John Beeston and James Halliday and has a reputation as being one of Australia's benchmark wineries. Today, Brokenwood is best recognized for its flagship single-vineyard Shiraz called Graveyard and its ILR Reserve Semillon that is aged in bottle for five years before release.

The iconic Graveyard vineyard covers 15 hectares (37 acres) of heavy clay soils, and is planted to Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon. In the late 1970s, Brokenwood expanded its range and began sourcing fruit from wine regions outside the Hunter Valley, including from the McLaren Vale and Coonawarra. In 1982 the company introduced white wines to its portfolio, notably its flagship Semillon from the Hunter Valley, and today white wines make up a significant portion of Brokenwood's annual production of around 100,000 cases.

Iain Riggs has been the winemaker at Brokenwood since 1982 and aims to produce wines with lower alcohol levels and more restrained oak usage. The winery's flagship Shiraz is one of the most highly rated red wines from the Hunter Valley in Langston's Classification of Premium Australian Wine and has gained status as one of Australia's iconic single-vineyard red wines.