Place of Changing Winds is a high-density vineyard located on the southern foothills of Mount Macedon in central Victoria, Australia. The name comes from the original inhabitants, the Wurundjeri people, who named this place Warekilla or Place of Changing Winds. This description still holds true today. At Place of Changing Winds, we make two sets of wines: Estate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from our own vines, and Syrah and Marsanne from two grower vineyards.

Our Estate wines comes exclusively from our Place of Changing Winds property. The altitude here is 500 metres above sea level and the vines are surrounded by native plantings and thousands of hectares of forest. It’s a genuinely cool site, with good rain, cold nights and a wide diurnal range. One of the most distinctive features of our vineyard is the high density. We have almost 45,000 vines planted across 3.1 hectares, with densities of mostly 12,000 and 14,000 vines per hectare, but also significant plots at 20,000, 25,000 and 33,000 vines per hectare.

Over the last decade we have developed a system of agronomic practice that is adapted specifically to our place. It is a meticulous viticulture with no synthetic chemicals used and a great deal of manual labour. The cellar is also next to the vines, meaning the fruit goes directly to the fermenters in a matter of minutes. We manage everything on site ourselves, including bottling. The Estate Series wines, then, reflect both our place and our no compromise approach.

Place of Changing Winds also produces Syrah and Marsanne from two vineyards further north. One vineyard is located in the Heathcote region, on the famed red ‘Cambrian’ soils of the Mt Camel Ranges. This is a considerably warmer site than our own vineyard and lies about 130km north of the cellars. The second vineyard is in Harcourt, 85km to the north. Harcourt is cooler than Heathcote, yet still warmer than our Estate, and the soils here are pure, granitic sands.

Our team works very closely with both of our growers. The vines are managed organically, and we are involved in all the viticultural decisions, including the picking dates which we decide. The goal has always been to produce wines of great finesse, perfume, and drinkability from both places.

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