producerBass Phillip
Phillip Jones planted at Leongatha in South Gippsland in 1979 and did not sell a bottle for twelve years. He planted at Burgundian density in a corner of Victoria nobody rated, and the wines became Australia's pinot benchmark.
When the door opens
Nobody has published this one's days where this project could read them. That is a gap here, not a locked door — write ahead, and see the finder for the cellars that do publish.
Facts
| country | Australia |
|---|---|
| established | 1979 |
| region | Australia |
| address | Leongatha, Victoria Cited |
| where | -38.4800, 145.9500 (street) · OpenStreetMap · open in maps Cited |
| confidence | medium · updated 2026-09-16 |
Near here
Straight-line kilometres; the road is always longer. The finder sorts every cellar on the map from wherever you are.
- 79.5 km — Mornington Peninsula region
- 101.9 km — Yarra Valley region
- 363 km — Tasmania region
Its kin
practiceHigh-density plantingThe decision the vineyard is built on.and of this page it says: Which planted at Burgundian density in Gippsland and waited twelve years to sell a bottle.the vinePinot noirWhat the cabernet was replaced with.
Sources
- Bass Phillip · link
Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.