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AUSTRALIA
Howard Park
WINERY OVERVIEW
Howard Park Wines, by Burch Family Wines, is Western Australia’s largest boutique family-
owned winery. Howard Park produces a range of handcrafted, fine Australian wines from
the premier grape-growing regions of Margaret River and the Great Southern. Owners Jeff
and Amy Burch are deepley committed to wine excellence and embrace a mantra of “no
compromise” when it comes to all ingredients that make-up the final glass of Howard Park. In
2009, Howard Park was asked to join Australia’s First Families of Wine (AFFW), a collective
of twelve multi-generational family-owned wine producers. Together representing seventeen
wine-growing regions across Australia and forty-eight generations of winemakers.
LOCATION OF VINEYARDS
Named after Jeff’s father and mentor, Leston Burch, the ‘Leston Vineyard’ is the vine-
producing property and home of Howard Park Wines in the Wilyabrup region of Margaret
River. It currently consists of about 157 acres (64 hectares) of vines including Shiraz, Cabernet
Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, and Carnelian varieties. Soil
types vary from gravely loams over clay along ridge tops to heavier textured and higher
potential soils on lower ground.
The Scotsdale Vineyard, established in 1997, is located at the foothills of the Porongurup
range. At 650 to 1,245 feet (200 to 380 meters) above sea level, it is among the highest
vineyard sites within the Great Southern. The Porongurup ranges are a large ancient rocky
outcrop jutting up from the surrounding farmlands and give their name to a small sub-region
of cool climate, elevated vineyards. The winters here are bitterly cold, and the soils are