About Paxton Wines, McLaren Vale South Australia

“David Paxton has been one of McLaren Vale’s most successful and well respected viticulturalists over the last 40 years that started with a successful Grape Growing business in the late 1970’s in which has evolved into the premium wine business and acclaimed vineyards that he has today.”
David Paxton is of one Australia’s most successful and well-respected viticulturists who started his successful premium grape growing business in 1979 in the world class wine growing region of McLaren Vale, South Australia, where he grew up as a farmer. Since then, he has not only been supplying premium grapes to his own globally successful Paxton Wines, but has been supplying premium grapes to top Australian brands like Penfolds, Wolf Blass, Two Hands, Molly Dooker and so many more, who all produce some of the world’s most awarded Australian wines. David has also been involved with planting and managing some of the most prestigious vineyards in Australia, from the Barossa Valley, Yarra Valley, Margaret River to the Adelaide Hills for top global wineries for over 30 years.
THE PLACE THE ESTATE VINEYARDS & MCLAREN VALE (THE ECO GREEN CENTER OF THE AUS WINE INDUSTRY)
David Paxton is one of Australia’s best-known viticulturists and consultants. He founded Paxton Vineyards in McLaren Vale with his family in 1979, and has since been involved in various capacities in the establishment and management of vineyards in several leading regions across the country. There are seven vineyards in the family holdings of just under 200 acres: the Thomas Block 125 yr old (28ha), the Jones Block (22ha), Quandong Farm (19ha), Landcross Farm (2ha) and Maslin Vineyard (3.5ha) the 19th Hole and Gateway vineyards. All seven are certified biodynamic, making Paxton one of the largest biodynamic producers in Australia. A historic 1860s sheep farm, on the site of the original village, houses Paxtons tasting rooms and cellar door. Exports to the UK, the US, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China”. James Halliday
The region of McLaren Vale is one of Australia’s top wine growing regions and also the center or nucleus for organic and sustainable wine farming in all of Australia. It’s the top 3 called for GIs by wine consumers worldwide when calling for Australian wines.
The EJ block vineyard is the 2nd oldest in the Vale planted in 1887, so we have old vines.