Coriole Vineyards is a

winery A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the cultivation and production of wine, such as a wine company. Some wine companies own many wineries. Besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feat ...

located in the McLaren Vale wine region of

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History

The original house and barn were built around 1860. The property was known as Clark Hill and owned by Robert Balderston, who may have planted the first

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vineyard in the late 1800s or early 1900s. In 1962, after several changes in ownership, Coriole was sold to John Snell, who established Australia's first organic winery, Chateau Bon Sante, and built a small winery, which forms the basis of the existing modern winery. In 1968 the property was bought by Hugh and Molly Lloyd, who released the first Coriole label vintage in 1969. with the help of winemaker Graeme Stevens. In 1985 Coriole pioneered the introduction of the Italian

Sangiovese Sangiovese is a red Italian wine grape variety that derives its name from the Latin , "blood of Jove, Jupiter". Sangiovese Grosso, used for traditionally powerful and slow maturing red wines, is primarily grown in the central regions of Italy ...

grape variety into Australia. Coriole was the first winery in Australia to produce Fiano, with a vineyard planted in 2001 and the first commercial release in 2005, and Piquepoul, with a vineyard planted in 2009 and the first commercial release in 2015.

Description

The winery is located in the

McLaren Vale McLaren Vale is a wine region in the Australian state of South Australia located in the Adelaide metropolitan area and centred on the town of McLaren Vale about south of the Adelaide city centre. It is internationally renowned for the wi ...

wine region in the state of

. it was exporting wine to the U.S., Canada and various countries in Europe and Asia. They produce red wines from grape varieties such as

Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Sauvignon () is one of the world's most widely recognized red wine grape varieties. It is grown in nearly every major wine producing country among a diverse spectrum of climates from Australia and British Columbia, Canada to Lebano ...

Nero d'Avola Nero d'Avola (; ) is "the most important red wine grape in Sicily"winecountry.iSicily Grape Varieties and is one of Italy's most important indigenous varieties. It is named after Avola in the far south of Sicily, and its wines are compared to New ...

, and

Negroamaro Negroamaro (seldom Negro amaro; meaning "black ndbitter") is a red wine grape variety native to southern Italy. It is grown almost exclusively in Apulia and particularly in Salento, the peninsula which can be visualised as the "heel" of Italy. T ...

. Their range of whites is made from grapes such as

Chenin blanc Chenin blanc (, ; known also as Pineau de la Loire among #Synonyms, other names) is a white wine grape variety from the Loire Valley (wine), Loire Valley of France (wine), France. Its high acidity (wine), acidity means it can be used to make var ...

, Fiano, and

Piquepoul Piquepoul (), Picpoul, or Picapoll is a variety of wine grape grown primarily in the Rhone Valley and Languedoc regions of France as well as Catalonia, Spain. It exists both in dark-skinned (Piquepoul noir) and light-skinned (Piquepoul blanc ...

. The business also sells

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, and local cheeses.

Events

Coriole Music Festival

The Coriole Music Festival is a classical music festival comprising three concerts that has been taking place at Coriole since 1999. A different theme has been chosen each year, and the music directors have included Christopher Burrell, Anthony Steel,

Anna Goldsworthy Anna Louise Goldsworthy is an Australian classical pianist, writer, academic, playwright, and librettist, known for her 2009 memoir '' Piano Lessons''. She has held several academic positions, and is director of the Elder Conservatorium at th ...

, and Simon Cobcroft.

Here's to Now

From 2013-2018, Coriole played host to the Here's to Now music festival, held in summer. One reviewer wrote that the festival "could be described as '

WOMAD WOMAD ( ; World of Music, Arts and Dance) is an international arts festival. The central aim of WOMAD is to celebrate the world's many forms of music, arts and dance. History WOMAD was founded in 1980 by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, w ...

on a millennial budget'".

References

External links

* {{Langton's Classification of Australian Wine VI - Producers Australian companies established in 1967 Wineries in McLaren Vale Food and drink companies established in 1967