Tractorless Vineyard

PREMIUM, AWARD-WINNING WINES

With a region strong in its ability to grow cool climate wines – especially Pinot and Riesling – Tractorless Vineyard’s mix of old-world knowledge and new-world winemaking techniques, our strong interest in Biodynamic principles and the backing of local like-minded winemakers, we have created a sustainably balanced and diverse farming system producing premium, award-winning wines.

Our premium cool climate wines include popular varieties such as Riesling, Shiraz Cabernet, Pinot Gris and Chardonnay, and our more experimental and lesser known varieties – our Aleatico Moscato and Nebbiolo.

We hope you enjoy our wines, and that you find your own perfect moment for the perfect Tractorless Vineyard wine.

OUR AIM

TRACTORLESS VINEYARD’S AIM IS TO REDUCE OUR RESOURCE USE BY THE INTEGRATION OF NATURAL FARMING SYSTEMS IN OUR VINEYARDS.

This will provide a more long-term, sustainably balanced and diverse farming system that can continue to produce award-winning cool climate wines in the Southern Highlands, NSW.

Embracing a combination of biodynamic techniques coupled with the integration of animal systems in vineyards – namely our star Tractorless Vineyard sheep – we hope to take our wines into another level of long-term sustainability and increasing wine quality.

OUR FLOCK

Our Tractorless Vineyard sheep are the real stars of the vineyard, and you will often see them milling about amongst the vines.

We use Black Faced Hampshire Down sheep and entrust them with the important role of managing our vineyard and olive groves.

Essentially, our Tractorless sheep are solar powered, fertilising lawn mowers. They undertake weed control and nibble at the leaves and thin out the vine canopy. We regularly rotate the flock to maximise efficiency and to eliminate the need for drenches.

OUR INSPIRATION

Winemaker Jeff Aston draws on his experiences winemaking in Georgia, Europe, the oldest winemaking region in the world with its roots traced back to 8000 years ago. Some of the best-known wine producers in France and throughout Europe have been long-term, or have converted to biodynamic viticulture and winemaking techniques and methods to sustain grape quality, in order to produce some of the highest rated wines in the world.

Inspiration is also drawn from Dr Rudolf Steiner’s insights into biodynamic farming and its impacts on the social, economic and agricultural management of vineyards.