At Yalumba we continually strive to reduce our impact on our environment, stay involved in our community, and ensure we will be making wine generation after generation. Yalumba’s sustainability ethos includes our certified organic winemaking programme, focused on crafting great wine with minimal intervention to the land and to the wines themselves.

Located on the Murray River at Loxton, the Barich family have a beautiful organic vineyard which produces wonderful Chardonnay. The grapes from this vineyard are combined with grapes from the Carypides family vineyard at Angle Vale who have been producing high quality Chardonnay for Yalumba for many years, and became Certified Organic in 2010. From the 2018 vintage they are joined by the Strachan Vineyard in Renmark, who like the Carypidis Family are long term growers recently certified. Meticulous work in all vineyards ensures that the grapes are in perfect condition when they are picked.

Good rainfall was recorded during July and August which replenished soil moisture. Spring and summer were relatively dry. Rainfall late in December and January was vital to refreshing the vines during the growing season and leading into harvest. Following near perfect ripening weather, the Chardonnay grapes were harvested in late January through to the end of February.