LINDEN ESTATE WINERY

Established in 1971, the Van der Linden family began making wine in 1979 and slowly started building their reputation , and the Linden Estate Brand.The present owners took over in 2006. With a completely new and passionate team our mission is to produce a selection of premium boutique wines that we are proud to call our own.Our focus in the vineyard is hard work and attention to detail. We believe this is the key to growing exceptional fruit which ensures our wine achieve depth, richness and complexity. The effort put into the vineyard has resulted in many of our wines being medal winners.Our Cellar Door is elevated above the surrounding vines, providing a wonderful vista across the valley floor to the wooded hills in the background.

Alex Hendry

When a customer looks at a bottle of Linden Estate wine they see a well-presented bottle with a smart label that stands up to most wines on the market any day of the week. When I look at a bottle of Linden Estate wine I see something completely different, I see all the hard work that went into making that wine; I see the vines at various stages of growth; I see all the energy and emotion spent in order to achieve that final product.My name is Trevor Shepherd. I am the winemaker at Linden Estate. I started work here 10 years ago and I made the wine and tended to the vines as well. However after working in the vineyard for some time I began to form a relationship with the vines and the terrior. I began to understand what was influencing them and what was required to promote healthy and quality grape growth. The amazing thing is that every time I made an adjustment in the vineyard I could see a direct result in the finished product in bottle…This was addictive. I then became obsessed with fine tuning every block on site trying to grow the best possible fruit I could. I have the rare opportunity here to grow the fruit and follow this fruit through to bottle .