Map of Heathcote Wine Region including events listings, winery names and features.
Heathcote, Victoria
Heathcote, nestled between the Goulburn Valley and Bendigo, is a premium Shiraz-producing area. The region's ancient volcanic soils, known as Cambrian earth, are deep red, rich in minerals, and have good water-holding capacity.
Features
About an hour and a half north of Melbourne, north of the Great Dividing Range
The first vines were planted by German immigrant, Henning Rathjen in the 1860s
The oldest Shiraz vines were planted in the late 1960s
Many medal-winning wines produced here
Wineries
McIvor Estate, Wild Duck Creek Estate, Jasper Hill, Paul Osicka Wines
