Our Story

Hello fellow fine wine enthusiasts, we would like to introduce ourselves and give you some background on our passion and drive to create Beach Family Wines.

Our family consists of ourselves (Dave and Fiona Beach) and our teenage children Alysha and Mitchell. Dave’s parents Pam and Steve round out our entire crew. It truly is a family affair.

As for our backgrounds – we are both chemists by profession and after moving to Tasmania in 1996 and studying viticulture (grape growing) part-time, developed a passion for making (and tasting) great wine, making our first wines in the Tamar Valley. After living & working overseas for many years, we returned to the Hunter Valley in 2011 and set about planning & building our new house and winery. After refreshing our winemaking knowledge again at the Kurri TAFE, we made our first Hunter wines in 2012.

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We have made a conscious decision not to have our own vineyard (where the fruit quality is restricted to one location / weather events etc), but instead prefer to develop close relationships with vignerons (grape growers) producing premium fruit in some of the best regions for each variety. We are present in the vineyard at every harvest possible, standing on the picking bin of the tractor, overseeing the fruit quality as it is hand-picked from the vines & tasting and ensuring fruit quality constantly throughout harvest. The prized fruit is then transported in cool conditions, often overnight or early morning, to our winery where they begin their journey to fine wine.

Our approach is intensely hands on, ensuring focus on the details throughout. Small parcels of premium fruit are nurtured, and hand processed with individual attention and minimal winemaking intervention. Quite the opposite to large “industrial style” processes with large tanks & volumes. We assess every batch and optimise the winemaking style for that individual batch of fruit, to allow the premium fruit to shine.

If for whatever reason we cannot source the quality of fruit needed to achieve our premium wine goal, we do (& have) not made wines of a particular vintage, rather than compromise on quality.

In short, our passion is to produce great tasting premium wines, and to achieve this we source only the best fruit & use the highest quality oaks and winemaking techniques – no compromise.

Please let us show you the wines we know you will love.

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Our approach is very hands on, with parcels of only premium fruit, but with minimal winemaking intervention. We do not use a large “industrial style” processes, all of our wines are made in small batches and are given individual attention and nurturing.

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