Australia Wines New South Wales Wines and Vineyards Petersons Wines Ian Peterson, a pharmacist, his wife Shirley and son Colin purchased an old dairy farm known as Glenesk at Mount View in 1964, with the intention of raising beef cattle. In 1971 ten acres of Semillon were planted to supply McWilliam's winery. This was to be the commencement of a very successful vineyard on the rich soils of Mount View in the Lower Hunter Valley. In 1980 thirty acres of vines had been planted, consisting of Semillon, Chardonnay, Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir. In 1981 the decision was made to produce two wines, Chardonnay & Shiraz (Hermitage back then!) which were in a very small new winery. The first release of wines also brought their first medals. The vineyard has since been planted out to 40 acres with new plantings of Chardonnay, Verdelho, Pinot Noir, and Viognier. The cellar door sales area was opened in October 1981. Since this time we have established Vineyards in the Premium Grape Growing Region of Mudgee and are pioneering a cool climate vineyard at Armidale in the New England Region. In 2001 at the Australian Small Winemakers Show we were awarded the Australian Champion Small Winery. This was topped with Jane Donat, previously our apprentice winemaker winning the Wine Society Members' Choice Trophy in the 2005 Australian Young Winemaker of the Year Competition. HUNTER VALLEY The original planting of ten acres of Semillon was planted at Mount View in 1971 with the intention of supplying the nearby McWilliams Mount Pleasant Winery with grapes. Over the next few years this was expanded to fourty acres and included a variety of other grapes: Chardonnay; Viognier; Verdelho, Gewurtztraminer, Back Block Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon, and Pinot Noir. MUDGEE This vineyard of 100 acres is planted to various red varieties: Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Durif, Zinfandel, Malbec, Petit Verdot and Chambourcin. This vineyard boasts some of our more famous red styles such as Glenesk, Ian's Selection, Old Block and Block One. Our whites also do well in Mudgee: Semillon, Chardonnay, Verdelho, Viognier and we now have Marsanne. We are even thinking of some Sauvignon Blanc plantings for the future! PO Box 182, Cessnock NSW 2325 Phone: (02)49901704 Fax: (02)49911344 Website :www.petersonswines.com.au

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