Australia's First Families of Wines and Their Landmark Wines

The grouping of Australia’s First Families of Wines was created in 2009, representing the Australian wines to the world. These families are the oldest wineries of Australia with combined experience of more than 1600 years in wine making business and holding about 5000 hectares of vineyards.

First Families	Year	Landmark Wines
Yalumba	1849	Yalumba 'The Reserve' Cabernet-Shiraz Yalumba 'The Signature' Cabernet-Shiraz Yalumba The Octavius' Old Vine Shiraz Yalumba 'The Virgilius' Viognier
Tyrrell's	1858	Vat 1 Hunter Semillon Vat 47 Hunter Chardonnay Vat 9 Hunter Shiraz
Tahbilk	1860	Tahbilk "1860 Vines" Shiraz Tahbilk "Eric Stevens Purbrick" Shiraz Tahbilk "Eric Stevens Purbrick" Cabernet Sauvignon Tahbilk "1927 Vines" Marsanne
Henschke	1868	Hill of Grace Mount Edelstone Cyril Henschke Cabernet Sauvignon
Campbells	1870	Rutherglen Muscat Rutherglen Tokay 'Isabella' Rare Rutherglen Tokay 'Merchant Prince' Rare Rutherglen Muscat
McWilliams	1877	McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Lovedale Semillon McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Maurice O’Shea Shiraz McWilliam’s Mount Pleasant Leontine Chardonnay
Brown Brothers	1885	Patricia Cabernet Sauvignon Patricia Shiraz Patricia Pinot Noir & Chardonnay Patricia Chardonnay Patricia Noble Riesling
d'Arenberg	1912	The Dead Arm Shiraz The Coppermine Road Cabernet Sauvignon The Ironstone Pressings Grenache Shiraz Mourvedre
De Bortoli	1928	Noble One Botrytis Semillon
Jim Barry	1959	The Armagh The McRae Wood The Benbournie The Florita
Taylors	1969	Taylors St Andrews range The Visionary
Howard Park	1986	Howard Park "Abercrombie" Cabernet Merlot Howard Park Riesling

As can be seen, Yalumba is the oldest and Howard Park is the latest winery.

More details can be found at : https://www.australiasfirstfamiliesofwine.com.au/

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