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Southwood Wines

Locality: Kellevie, Tasmania, Australia

Address: Kellevie Road 7176 Kellevie, TAS, Australia

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25.01.2022 Stunning photos and modelling by visiting mainlanders Dean and Camilla Israel... come again!

25.01.2022 It started out as scraps of paper, ideas and ideals and we called it The PPPP... Potential Pinot Paddock Plan! From there it’s morphed into friends becoming shareholders and directors, an abn, bank account, and a whole box and dice of contractors, advisors, drawers, drafters and designers. Southwood Wines Pty Ltd has been created, and our new babies, the Pinot clones are growing strong roots ready for planting in their new home at Southwood in November. COVID 19 (and beyond) ...has bought us all challenges, and one of ours is that we had intended to bring the whole tribe of amazing contributors down to Southwood Kellevie for the dirt under the fingernails planting ... plus christen Red Roof Bar (RRB) obviously! Some of our team have not yet even visited their investment and yet, show amazing confidence in this little startup adventure, with capital injections, weekly zoom meetings and an extremely committed zeal for trying lots of Tassie pinots to attempt to identify our predilections and instruct our winemaker as to yeasts, tannins, fruits and alcohol and all other perplexities of what we want in Southwood Wines. With many of our key stakeholders unable to arrive in Tasmania now until at least December, emergency call to arms messages have been sent and our friends and family ( plus a few experienced old hands) will position, dig, plant, stake, protect and water our precious new arrivals!( all 1440 of them!) See more

19.01.2022 The excavator has arrived and the first job is to remove the sandstone foundations from the old fire-destroyed Kellevie School house, burnt down around 1905. The idea will be to use the excavated blocks as follies around our Southwood pinot vines... creating garden beds, benches and stone walls. Next job has been to relocate the orchard and get set to create 5 special rows in the Cottage Orchard Vineyard...set to become the spoilt child of Southwood Wines!

18.01.2022 Why is it called Southwood? Ivan and I live in Sydney with our family, our jobs and schools and hosts of wonderful friends collected, edited and collated over many years. Our home here is beautiful, surrounded by other beautiful homes, where our neighbours take pride in their gardens, hedges and nature strips and bins are lined up with military precision each Monday evening. Our social calendar is more often than not, a walk along the street or down the hill with wine and a p...late in hand to drink with the locals, or they head to us. What has become slightly unusual about our place in suburban Sydney is that Tracy has turned it into a farm, or as close as possible given livestock restrictions imposed by our local council. It started with a significant birthday celebrationand a windmill. Our home soon became known as the house with the windmill (and lots of parties!) Next came the chickens, the dogs, the cats and the rabbits. Vege gardens, green manure crops, fruit trees, compost heaps, worm farms and hay bales for mulch all added to the theme and aroma. Ivan complained often but not loudly enough, that this place is becoming a farm and so Northwood Farm has evolved, in the small suburban suburb of Northwood. The strategy worked and as Ivan became increasingly frustrated by the Noah’s Ark of arrivals at Northwood the pressure mounted to find a ‘real’ farm. The search sensibly took us beyond NSW and back to our roots in Tasmania, with the initial criteria to be within an easy drive from a Tasmanian airport to make a regular commute from Sydney manageable enough to do often. The search took years, as Ivan is thorough in everything he tackles.Tracy less so! Our patience was rewarded when Woolleys Road, Kellevie popped onto the market and we all fell in love with the cute little cottage, beautiful views of rolling pastures and hills and the South East Tassie region. Our great mate Paul just lives along the road, and over the two years or so we have been here as part time residents, we’ve thrown ourselves into farming, farm life, livestock, gardens, building projects, tractor driving lessons, local markets, our son’s wedding, big parties, little parties and an accumulation of the most wonderful menagerie of farm animals (and friends!) we are pigs in mud (without the pigs.yet!) Southwood Wines is our next big adventure, and surrounded by a core group of talented individuals (who have at their core, a love of pinots, especially Tasmanian ones!) we are about to grow some new skills, meet some inspirational people and grow wine...pinot wine! So there it isit only seemed natural that up north we live in NORTHWOOD and down south we live in SOUTHWOOD!

11.01.2022 These are a few early days shots of Southwood taken by great friends visiting from Sydney as they explored... changes are happening...gently, slowly and excitingly!

11.01.2022 Chapter Two We left Tasmania to seek our fortune, drive our careers and explore the mainland and beyond, and have created families, friends and decades of life experiences, and yet, the undeniable tug of Tassie has been there. That indefinable thing that Tasmanians (and maybe especially those have left her shores in search of bigger means better goals) feel. All we knew was that we wanted a connection to Tasmania again and we wanted it to be real. To join and become part of a... community, to grow something, and to learn completely new skills and be inspired by what we still have to learn. We had to take that passion, and add to it. So we decided to add another passion, one we have shared and enjoyed and explored over hours and hours of diligent tasting, travelling and treasure-troving....a passion for pinot! Our little farm in Tasmania is surrounded by vineyards, small, boutique and with highly regarded wine makers. We've had conversations with this amazingly collaborate group, we've helped pick their grapes and we've harvested sage advice, engaged experts who know way more than we will probably ever know (or need to know!) about irrigation, frost control, pinot clones and their pecadilloes, and are in the thick of labels, bottles and barrel research. So here we go, brave boots and all, on the cusp of bringing our new baby (1440 actually, of various clone varieties) to Southwood. See more

02.01.2022 Chapter One We bought a farm... a beautiful little cottage set in the rolling hills of Ragged Tiers and surrounded by small rural properties grazing sheep, cows, goats, alpacas, olive groves... and vineyards.... beautiful Tasmania vineyards. So we bought a cow... just the one, and she had a calf and so the story goes. One cow, one calf ( ironically named Sydney... we are travelling to Hobart to visit Sydney became our party line! )...Continue reading