Chalk Hill

Chalk Hill is a family owned wine company dedicated to making small batch, hand crafted wines of distinction. The Harvey family grape growing heritage goes back six generations in South Australia, and we now have six vineyards spread across the beautiful McLaren Vale wine region. Our home vineyard was first planted in 1897 and these century old vines still bear fruit today. 

It is our family commitment to make wines that reveal the unique place that is McLaren Vale, and to show our efforts from the vineyard to the bottle. To us, wine is more than just a drink, it is a reflection of our place and our life.

The grapes in Chalk Hill wines are primarily sourced from six family-owned vineyards in the McLaren Vale district, 40 kilometres south of Adelaide in South Australia. McLaren Vale's Mediterranean type climate of cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers provides perfect growing conditions for premium grapes.

Each Vineyard has a different soil type and topography, providing unique growing environments for the grapes. We take these unique factors and combine them with expert viticultural management to produce grapes of distinct character and appeal that make our wines so sought after.

Our family history of grape growing in South Australia predates the foundation of the Barossa and Clare Valleys with John Harvey who settled in South Australia in 1839. Now we are in our sixth generation of growing grapes in South Australia, with the last three in McLaren Vale, regarded as one of the finest grape growing regions in the world.

McLaren Vale is unique being so close to the cooling waters of the Gulf of St Vincent, and having a wonderful tapestry of soils that provide great diversity for growing grapes. It has been the mapping of these soil types and an understanding of the topography that allows us to tailor specific varieties to parts of our vineyard. The nurturing of these vines ensures we have a broad pallet of flavours to choose from when we put together our wines, or keep them for a single vineyard wine as part of our special release selection