Three Choirs

A local wine retailer who started to harvest vines on his small fruit farm as a hobby founded three Choirs in 1973. With the help from a very favourable summer, his small fruit farm began to expand. Named after a local Three Choirs Chorus festival this family winery has now grown from a half acre of vines to over 40 acres. At Three Choirs all the picking is done by hand, ensuring strict quality control and a rigorous selection process. Each bunch is cut from the vine with as little stem as possible, placed into bins and then brought up to the winery for pressing. At this stage of the process each variety is kept separate. Only after fermentation is the base wines tasted and finally blended into the final cuvée and bottled, ready for the all-important secondary fermentation and less ageing to take place.