The Belgravia vineyard was planted by the Hattersley family in 1996 and the first Belgravia-labeled wine was released in 2001.

Belgravia Wines
Belgravia produces limited quantities of excellent cool-climate fruit picked from our vineyard in Orange. Each parcel of fruit is crafted into 'hand-made' wines allowing the fruit's finger-print to shine. Brand Manager Nick Butler works closely with specialist winemaker Phil Kerney who concentrate on traditional winemaking methods and minimal 'intervention'. This is testament to the quality of the fruit grown at Belgravia.

Belgravia’s Vineyard
As all wine lovers know, you can't make great wines unless you have great fruit - so good wines are made in the vineyard. Ours lies between 650-710 metres above sea level and is located 22 kms north of Orange in the Orange GI. The 193-hectare vineyard comprises:

• 74 hectares of shiraz
• 46 hectares of chardonnay
• 29 hectares of merlot
• 25 hectares of cabernet sauvignon
• 4.5 hectares of viognier
• 4.5 hectares of roussanne
• 5 hectares of traminer
• 4.5 hectares of Riesling

Belgravia sources select parcels of premium quality fruit from other local vineyards as well from high-altitude Mt Canobolas vineyards (over 1000m), these varieties include pinot gris, sangiovese and sauvignon blanc.

Mean Jan Temp - 21.7 degrees
Mean July Temp - 6.3 degrees
Ave rainfall since vineyard est. - 640 mm (370 mm in growing season)
Irrigation usage - 1 Megalitre per hectare.

The Orange Region

The Orange wine region is emerging as a producer of Australia's finest cool-climate wines.  It is defined as the area above 600m in the local government areas of Orange, Cabonne and Blayney and can be usefully described as a circle around Orange. The region is well-suited for grapegrowing and winemaking due to a combination of geology, soils, climate and temperature. Together these factors combine to produce grapes and wine of distinct flavours and colour.

Mount Canobolas, an important geological feature also plays its part, not only giving the district its rich basalt soils but also, because of its altitude, giving greater reliability to the rainfall. The climate perhaps plays the biggest part in giving Orange some distinct natural advantages - the cool temperatures during most of the growing season coupled with dry autumn conditions are ideal for grapegrowing. The region is planted to 60% red wine varieties and 40% white wine varieties. Of the red varieties in the Orange region, Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon are the most widely planted with Merlot and Pinot Noir also gaining a following - Pinot Noir being particularly good at the higher altitude sites. In the white varieties Chardonnay is most widely planted followed by Sauvignon Blanc and these two varieties dominate the landscape.

(Thanks to the Orange Regional Vignerons Association for much of the above information)