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Apr 24th 2012
Winter Chill Out at Wehl's and Wangolina
The 2012 Wehl's Mount Benson Wines and Wangolina Station Winter Chill out event is to be held again this year on July 1! ... more
Apr 16th 2012
A+ Australian Wine Celebration 12-29th April
Mount Benson Wine Region will be aprticipating in the A+ Australian Wine Celebration in 2012. Museum release will be shown at participating Cellar Doors. ... more
good for the grape, great for the soul
The Area
Mount Benson is a unique coastal geographical indication situated approximately 300 kilometres from Adelaide and halfway between the historic townships of Kingston SE and Robe in the south east of South Australia. As part of the greater Limestone Coast wine region, Mount Benson is cousin to other well-known winegrowing regions including Coonawarra, Padthaway, Wrattonbully, Penola, Mount Gambier and Robe.
The region’s first grapes were planted in the 1980s by local farmers well attuned to Mount Benson’s unique and rugged climatic conditions. These grapes would later make way for the region’s own style of delicate, cool-climate, maritime-influenced wines which have already begun to make waves within a very competitive Australian wine industry.
Pass through the region and you begin to appreciate the lifestyle that the people lead here, grazing sheep, tending to crops and fishing for crayfish, intermittently broken up with a trip to the beach to relax the mind and soul. This is the sense of place we aim to convey in every bottle of wine we produce.
