HUNTER WINE SERVICES - WINEMAKING

Winemaking

Established in July 2000, Hunter Wine Services (Australia) Pty Ltd is a relatively new business specialising in the production of premium regional wines.

Hunter Wine Services founders Rex D'Aquino and John Hordern have 60 years of wine making experience between them, and over 200 years of winemaking history. Rex is a 3rd generation winemaker from the D'Aquino family business whose roots stem back to early 1900's in Sicily, Italy. John is a 5th generation winemaker from the Anthony Hordern retail business of the early 1850's in Australia.

The Winery

The D'Aquino winery crushes 5,000 tonnes of grapes each year, blending and bottling batches of wine from 20 different regions of Eastern Australia, resulting in individually styled batches of wine with consistent high quality.

The winery has its own dual level maturation cellars below ground (ideal for wine).

The old Oak Milk facility

The winery itself has its own history, being the old Oak Milk facility situated ideally in Muswellbrook in the Upper Hunter Valley on 10.5 hectares of land, leaving plenty of room for expansion in years to come. It was built originally in 1950 to process fresh and powdered milk products and is a large 'art deco' brick building.