Hayes

Hayes Family Wines are a small independent producer in Barossa Valley, Australia, a region home to some of the oldest vitis vinifera vines in the world, many of which are ungrafted – still planted on their own rootstocks. This is something rarely seen in the ‘old word’ of Europe. Most European vines were devastated by the Phylloxera louse, which has yet to reach the sandy soils of South Australia..

Hayes’ estate is one of only five (out of appx. 2,500!) to be certified organic in the region. As Brett farms only 6 hectares of vines, he also buys fruit from other trusted, but not certified organic, growers, to make his range of regional wines.