Clarendon Hills

Clarendon Hills is an Australian winery in McLaren Vale, founded in 1990 by Roman Bratasiuk, who irreversibly changed the landscape of Australian wine. A biochemist by training, Roman taught himself to make wine, guided by a truly visionary outlook.

He introduced the concept of single-vineyard wine to Australia in 1990 and blazed a trail for Australian Grenache with the country’s first single-vineyard, 100% Grenache: Clarendon Hills Blewitt Springs Grenache 1991. In the same year he discovered the Astralis vineyard, in Blewitt Springs, from which Astralis Syrah is born, today considered an icon of Australian wine.

Clarendon Hills focuses on vineyards of old-vine Grenache, Syrah and Cabernet in the subzones of Blewitt Springs and Clarendon. Grenache Romas, for example, comes from a high-altitude sector of Blewitt Springs, from dry-farmed, bush-trained vines planted in the 1920s, on an east-facing, terraced rocky hill with rocks 750–1,600 million years old.

Over more than three decades of dedication and continual refinement, Clarendon Hills has built a first-rate reputation worldwide, with wines of great power, harmony and precision.

Clarendon Hills is a benchmark name for great single-vineyard reds from McLaren Vale and Australia.