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30 Years of Howard Park Wines
In 1986, Howard Park became one of the original wine pioneers in Western Australia to champion the cool climate Great Southern region as an area to produce fine elegant wines. Since its inception, Howard Park’s philosophy has been to craft outstanding boutique Australian wines of great subtlety, character, balance and elegance with an uncompromising commitment to quality. The first two wines to be produced by its founder John Wade, were a Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon sourced from vineyards in the Denmark and Mount Barker sub regions of the Great Southern. Seven years later, the Wade family officially partnered with the Burch Family and continued with Howard Park’s future.
John Wade begins Howard Park, naming it after his father. A Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon is made whilst John is still working at Plantagenet Wines.
The Burch family purchases a Leston property in Margaret River; 138 hectares of pasture with a group settlement home and the Wilyabrup creek running through it.
John Gladstone’s study marked this particular property in Willyabrup as suitable for growing Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay.
Amy and Jeff Burch join John Wade in partnership.
The first vintage of Howard Park is produced in the Denmark Agricultural College.
Release of the first Howard Park Chardonnay.
Release of first Howard Park ‘Parkhead’ Best Barrels Merlot.
The historic ‘Park Head’ property in Denmark is purchased to become Howard Park’s first winery and cellar door.
The first plantings at the Leston vineyard of Chardonnay, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon.
David Burch, Jeff’s brother, joins Howard Park to manage the Leston Vineyard in Margaret River.
The Denmark winery and cellar door opens for its first vintage.
Lesley Scogna, Jeff’s sister, joins Howard Park as a Brand Ambassador.
John Wade leaves Howard Park and the Burch family purchases the remaining shares.
Michael Kerrigan becomes Chief Winemaker.
Release of the Distinguished Sites range with the Scotsdale Cabernet Sauvignon and Leston Shiraz.
Introduction of the new Howard Park Wines label to the market.
The Single Vineyard range is completed with the Scotsdale Shiraz and Leston Cabernet Sauvignon.
The Margaret River winery and cellar door opens in Margaret River for the 2000 vintage. Architecturally designed with Feng Shui principles, it wins several awards.
Another 63 hectares of Cabernet and Chardonnay vines are planted in the Leston vineyard.
Screwcap trials begin with some batches of Howard Park Riesling, Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon.
All Howard Park and MadFish wines are bottled under screwcap.
Release of the Howard Park Sauvignon Blanc.
Purchase of the 200 hectare Mount Barrow vineyard in Mount Barker, Great Southern.
David Botting joins Howard Park as Chief Viticulturist.
Several clones of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are planted at the Mount Barrow vineyard along with Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc.
The 20th vintage of Howard Park Cabernet Sauvignon is renamed ‘Abercrombie’ after Jeff’s great grandfather, Walter Abercrombie.
Natalie Burch, Jeff and Amy’s daughter, joins Howard Park.
Howard Park celebrates its 20th Anniversary holding a vertical tasting of Riesling and Cabernet Sauvignon for a group of eminent wine writers.
First release of the Howard Park Museum Riesling.
No Abercombie Cabernet Sauvignon is made due to adverse vintage conditions.
Howard Park hosts the Tropfest film festival in Margaret River for the first time.
The first international Riesling tasting is held at the Margaret River winery.
Tony Davis becomes Chief Winemaker.
Expansion of the Margaret River winery- additional red fermenters, additional press, and additional storage capacity.
Allan Stanbury becomes Bottling Manager. Installation of still and sparkling lines at Margaret River winery.
The first Howard Park sparklings are tiraged.
Howard Park joins Australia’s First Families of Wine.
David Burch, Jeff and Amy’s son, joins Howard Park.
First release of the Howard Park Porongurup Riesling.
Janice McDonald becomes Chief Winemaker.
First release of Allingham Chardonnay.
The Howard Park methode traditionelle sparklings are launched.
Burch Family Wines is named as the umbrella brand of Howard Park, Marchand and Burch and MadFish.
Richard Burch, the youngest of the Burch clan joins Howard Park.
Janice McDonald is a finalist for Gourmet Traveller’s Winemaker of the Year.
Purchase of the Dennis vineyard in Mount Barker, which is renamed the Abercrombie Vineyard. The vineyard was planted in 1975 and has provided fruit for our Icon Wine since 1986, now called the Abercrombie.
Purchase of the Broomstick Vineyard in southern Margaret River, which is renamed the Allingham Vineyard. The fruit has been in Howard Park Chardonnay since 2004.
Expansion of Margaret River winery: additional crusher and press, additional small tanks to enable small batch processing.
The Wine Chapel is opened as an exclusive tasting room at the Margaret River winery.
The Howard Park Great Southern Riesling becomes the Mount Barker Riesling sourced from our Mount Barrow vineyard.
The Leston nursery propagating Chardonnay clones for Allingham and Mount Barrow vineyards.
Howard Park celebrates 30 years
Here is our story
In the beginning, like many other wineries, we didn’t have our own vineyards, so we sourced fruit from quality producers across Western Australia.The knowledge and experience we gained over 20 years of sourcing fruit from both the Margaret River and the Great Southern regions has enabled us to build an intellectual database. This intellectual knowledge then enabled us to determine, which regions, which vineyard, which block and which clones produced the highest quality fruit for each variety.
We were able to purchase vineyards that we had identified as producing the best fruit for each variety. We now have a network of vineyards across Margaret River and the Great Southern - not just one vineyard which we rely on to produce all varieties.Why we are proud of this unique point of difference?
Here is why...
Because producing fruit in two regions is our story, our history and our passion. We believe it allows us the ability to source the best parcels of fruit for true expression of our wines. As a proud West Australian family-owned winery, we aim to produce a range of handcrafted fine Australian wines that express our state's premier grape growing regions of Margaret River and the Great Southern. Operating in both regions distinguishes us from other Western Australian wineries and allows us to produce award winning wines which we believe over deliver on quality and excellence.
No other winery has spent 30 years developing the source of their fruit in the same way we have and now you are seeing the benefits of that coming through with our outstanding winemakers Janice McDonald and Mark Bailey in the winery with the high quality, award winning wines we are now producing.
