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Curlewis Winery  

address 55 Navarre Road, Curlewis, Vic 3222
region Geelong
telephone (03) 5250 4567
website www.curlewiswinery.com.au
open By appt
winemaker Rainer Breit
year established 1998
cases 2500

Rainer Breit and partner Wendy Oliver purchased their property in 1996 with 1.6 ha of what were then 11-year-old pinot noir vines. Rainer, a self-taught winemaker, uses the full bag of pinot noir winemaking tricks: cold-soaking, hot-fermentation, post-ferment maceration, part inoculated and part wild yeast use, prolonged lees contact, and bottling the wine neither fined nor filtered. While Rainer and Wendy are self-confessed ‘pinotphiles’, they have planted a little chardonnay and buy a little locally grown shiraz and chardonnay. Exports to Canada, Sweden, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.


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