Australian wine authority and critic, James Halliday (in Halliday’s Wine Companion), has awarded Ashbrook Estate a 5 Red Star rating, an accolade afforded to only the top 8% of Australia’s wineries.
Halliday describes the meaning of his 5 Red Star rating as “Outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity. Will have at least two wines rated at 94 points or above, and have had a five-star rating for the previous two years.” Also, “This estate is one of the quietest and highest achievers in Australia, maintaining excellent viticulture and fastidious winemaking.” And Halliday most recently wrote of Ashbrook – “A fastidious producer of consistently excellent estate grown table wines that shuns publicity and the wine show system alike and is less well known than is deserved”

Established by the Devitt family in 1975, Ashbrook produced its first commercial wine (Riesling) in 1979 and its 30th vintage in 2008. Only grapes handpicked and grown on the Estate are used for the Ashbrook label and all processing, winemaking, bottling and packaging are closely controlled using Ashbrook’s own state of the art facilities.

Extensive use of the sophisticated “lyre” trellising system in the vineyard maximizes flavour potential and allows Ashbrook to produce only a premium label for each grape variety.
All grape picking and all vine pruning are carried out by hand. Vineyard management techniques, including the application of composted mulch, are focused on the sustainable maintenance of excellent vine health.

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