Poonawatta

The Poonawatta wine brand takes its name from the Poonawatta property in South Australia’s beautiful Eden Valley, a region synonymous with world class Riesling and Shiraz.T

A boutique producer of hand crafted artisan wines, Poonawatta is about authenticity and a sense of place; with limited production and a philosophy and passion that strives to attain the best from every vintage, while meeting our environmental obligations through a commit...

The high country of Eden Valley is one of Australia’s premier cool climate wine regions, characterised by its rugged beauty and varied topography, with vineyards scattered across rolling hills, sharing the terrain with grazing land, rocky outcrops and ancient gums. Eden Valley is the Barossa’s Garden of Eden.

Defined by the cool climate, ancient soils and later ripening, Eden Valley wines are distinctive in their character, displaying wonde...

In 1967, Gwen Temple and Eleanor Hardie, the daughters of Colonel John Temple who was the second owner of Poonawatta, paid us a visit and shared some of the properties history. Colonel Temple served with the British Army, stationed in India at a town called Poona. An interesting coincidence! Temple purchased the Poonawatta property in 1891 and the family left in 1922. The Poonawatta property at that time was 250 acres, with titles carved off o...