About the winery
Mr. Mick Wines, Cellar Door and Kitchen are named after the late K.H. (Mr. Mick) Knappstein, an Australian winemaking legend and Tim Adams’ mentor and friend. Tim and his wife Pam purchased the historic site at 7 Dominic Street, Clare in late 2010 and set about reinvigorating the picturesque property into a successful winery and Clare tourist attraction, that now houses a renowned restaurant, cellar door and gallery. With younger family members on the board it was decided to expand both outside and within the cellar. Stanley had taken advantage of the new white wine making technology developed by Gramps and adopted refrigeration, controlled and closed fermentation techniques, which aimed to get wine from the vine to the bottle as quickly as possible. As a result the quality of the wine improved markedly. An old batch of vines (the first that were planted by my father) had deteriorated to the point that only 4-5 tonnes were produced from the patch. As these vines made the best wine it was always thought that we should plant more of them. Otto and the board had selected cuttings from the best vines and had planted 14 acres by 1936/37. These vines are what are known today as Riesling.
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Clare, SA, Australia