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Our direct mail customers stay in touch most easily through our mail outs. We send out three each year - March, August and November.

We hold a major tasting in Sydney in March, Melbourne in April, Adelaide in August, Canberra in November and, during the year, tastings for smaller groups and with our trade distributors by arraignment.

Invitations to the major tastings are only available through our mail outs - a good reason for our customers to be on the mailing list.

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Koppamurra led the way in extending the Coonawarra by pioneering vineyard development in the Naracoorte area (now the Wrattonbully wine region) some thirty years ago. John Greenshields, who remains our winemaker, planted the first vines at Joanna to the accompaniment of great scepticism from the locals.

That historic decision has been positively confirmed in three areas. Firstly, we have established a reputation as a boutique producer of quality wines for a long period, awarded and recognised both here and in the USA. Also in the past few years major wine companies and many smaller players have recognised the area is equally as good as the Coonawarra for vineyards, and thirty years later some 3,000 acres of new vines, (as at 2002), have been planted in the area.

Recently the quality of our vineyard was confirmed in the best possible way, when three of the biggest names in international winemaking purchased our vineyard (Brian Croser, Jean-Michel Cazes of Lynch-Bages and Societe Jacques Bollinger).

We have now moved to a winemaking model different from the original one. We no longer own a vineyard, which may seem illogical, but it allows us the flexibility and freedom to buy grapes from our chosen vineyard in the best region for each variety. We will continue to source fruit from selected companion vineyards at Wrattonbully, the Adelaide Hills, Eden Valley and York Peninsular.( a new and promising wine growing area). Also, in the future, we will source some interesting and some different varieties from other regions.

Our existing stocks of red wine from Wrattonbully will ensure continuity of our "mainstream" reds as the grapes from our companion Wrattonbully vineyard come on stream.

We remain a boutique producer; but with a brand better known than most of our size, and a range of wines larger than most of our size. Our wines are being stocked by an increasing number of restaurants, and retail outlets, in Adelaide and along the eastern seaboard, and are sold to a direct mail data base across Australia that has doubled in the past 3 years.

We select grapes from vineyards in regions that are the ‘classics’ for their varieties and aim to make wines that are also ‘classics’. We let the grapes and the season speak for themselves, without too much winemaking interference. This means the wines will vary – a bit -from season to season, which we believe adds to their interest. We filter only as much as we have to, which may lead to a harmless natural sediment appearing in the reds, but avoids the flavour-stripping that occurs with excessive filtering.

We remain very conscious of the extreme competition that exists in the wine industry today and we have priced our wines to keep them competitive.

Our direct mail customers stay in touch most easily through our mail outs. We send out three each year - March, August and November. We hold a major tasting in Sydney in March, Melbourne in April, Adelaide in August and, during the year, tastings for smaller groups and with our trade distributors. Invitations to the major tastings are only available through our mail outs - a good reason for our customers to be on the mailing list.