The Indigo Vineyard is located 12km’s from Beechworth in the foothills of the Victorian Alps. Wine has been produced in the area since 1950 when the Brown Bros vineyards was planted at Everton Hills.

Later, our neighbour “Giaconda” (whose wines are regarded as among the best in the country) and others including Golden Ball, battely, Castagna, Savaterre and Amulet joined the area, attracted to its cool climate elevation and the “terroir” with soils varying from granite to clay loams.

In 1997, a year-long, Australia-wide, search for The Great Vineyard Site led us to a sheep station called “The Big Valley”.

In 1999 plantings commenced, supervised by Iain Riggs (Brokenwood), Matt Harrop (Shadowfax), Alastair Butt (Seville Estate) and Guy Rayner (then Vineyard Manager).

The wines are produced by Iain Riggs and PJ Charteris at Brokenwood based on our philosophy of minimum winemaker intervention to allow the characters of these soils and the region to be displayed. Only low-yielding estate grown fruit is used allowing the wines to display regional and block-specific characteristics.

(Vineyard Manager, pictured)
Casey with wife Jessica have been part of the Indigo family since 2000.