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We’ll be at Cellar Door Fest in Adelaide
'Tis the season for red wine - Cellar Door Fest Winter Edit is back! Held at the Adelaide Convention Centre, this boutique event will be jam-packed with local food, wines ,spirits, and music. We will be pouring new vintages of our "Taking the...

See you at the Good Food & Wine Show in Sydney!
After several postponements due to COVID, we're excited to be exhibiting at the Sydney Good Food & Wine Show from 24th – 26th June 2022. This will be our first event attendance in Sydney and we're looking forward to meeting many of you...

Winepilot Reviews: April 2022
We shared our wines with the Winepilot team recently and needless to say, we are pretty chuffed by these results! 2020 'Duck, Duck, Cat' Grenache91 points - Jeni Port & Ken Gargett 2017 'Taking the Mickie' Shiraz90 points - Ken Gargett 2018...

Vintage 2022
This vintage we harvested the Shiraz in mid-March, finished picking the Grenache on April 4th, and this was pressed off just before Easter.

Two Medals at the 2021 Australian Small Winemakers Show
Genista Wines was awarded two medals at the 2021 Australian Small Winemakers Show. The 'Taking the Mickie' Shiraz 2017 picked up a silver medal and 'Taking the Mickie' Shiraz 2018 was awarded a bronze medal. The Australian Small Winemakers Show...

Three Medals at the 2021 Winewise Small Vigneron Awards
Genista Wines was awarded three medals at the recently judged 2021 Winewise Small Vigneron Awards. The 'Duck, Duck, Cat' Grenache 2020 picked up a silver medal and 'Taking the Mickie' Shiraz 2017 & 2018 vintages were each awarded bronze...

We’re back for Cellar Door Fest Winter Edit
After a great first event in February, we signed up to exhibit at Cellar Door Fest Winter Edit — a smaller, more boutique take on the popular summer festival on 9 & 10 July. See you there!

Introducing our first Grenache: ‘Duck, Duck, Cat’
We're so excited to share with you that our first Grenache is now available through our online store! In 2020 we crushed the first Grenache for Genista from our single acre of 1944 planted vines. We also got to know Rose, the local Barossa Wildlife...