Craft & Estate Portfolio Book

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. 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 LOCATION OF VINEYARDS

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