Mornington Peninsula

Fast Facts

  • Latitude:
    38°20’S
  • Altitude:
    25–250 m
  • Heat degree days:
    1080–1570
  • Growing season rainfall:
    320–386 mm
  • Mean January temp:
    18.8–20°C
  • Harvest:
    End March to early June
  • Chief viticultural hazard:
    Autumn rain; birds

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Contrary to most accounts, vineyards did exist on the Mornington Peninsula (chiefly in the Hastings area) in the nineteenth century, albeit on a small scale. They disappeared without trace, and the next attempt to establish a vineyard was in 1948, when a member of the Seppelt family planted Riesling on a 68 ha property on Harrison’s Road, Dromana. Two years later the property was sold to the Broadhurst family, close relatives of a Melbourne retailer and wine judge, Doug Seabrook, who maintained the vineyard (and made the wine) until the vines were killed by a bushfire in 1967.

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