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Majella Wines

Majella makes some of the finest wines in Coonawarra. Famed for our reds, we have also gained a reputation for our wonderful Sparkling Shiraz and more recently for one of Coonawarra's nicest Rieslings.
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Welcome to Majella Wines, one of the most awarded small Australian wineries.

We are a family owned winery based in the famous Coonawarra wine region in South Australia, home to some of Australia’s greatest wines.

The Lynn family have been residents of the Penola – Coonawarra district for five generations, starting off as blacksmiths, wheelwrights, storekeepers and finally, graziers.

In 1968 Brian and Anthony Lynn started planting a vineyard on the Coonawarra property that their parents had purchased back in 1960. At that stage the property was used for prime lamb production, but a decision was made to convert a lovely “terra rossa” bank on the front of the farm into vineyards.

Eventually the size of the vineyards grew to 60 hectares.

The remainder of the land is still used for sheep grazing, mostly for prime lamb production with the rest purely for wool.

The grapes that make Majella wines famous are all grown on the Majella property surrounding the winery.

Majella is situated on the eastern edge of the famous Coonawarra “red strip” and comprise some 60 hectares. About 55% is planted to Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% to Shiraz and the remainder to Merlot and Riesling.

1968 saw the planting of the original vineyard – Block 1 and all up about 40 hectares were planted between 1968 and 1974. The remainder were planted between 1989 and 1996. All our grapes are processed into wine at our winery on the property and we only ever use our own grapes in the Majella wines.

We like to think that our vineyards are managed in a very sustainable manner.

The first vintage was in 1972, and from then until 1991 the Lynn’s were purely grape growers, selling their production to larger wineries, predominately to Wynn’s Coonawarra Estate.

In 1991 a decision was made to make 10 tonne of Shiraz into wine. This was done at the Brand Family’s “Laira” winery by Bruce Gregory, who along with the late Jim Brand was winemaker there. Gradually

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