WHAT WE STAND FOR!
Winemaker | Tom White
Curator Wine CO is the culmination of a lifelong pursuit of exceptional Barossa wine.
My journey began long before I ever made my first vintage. Growing up in the late 1980s, my family established a cool-climate vineyard in the Adelaide Hills, where I developed an early appreciation for the connection between vineyard, season and wine. What began as curiosity quickly became an obsession.
I was fascinated by the idea that every decision in the vineyard could influence the character of the wine in the glass. That relationship between nature and craftsmanship continues to drive everything we do today.
My ambition was always clear—to produce generous, age-worthy Shiraz, Grenache and Cabernet Sauvignon from the Barossa Valley's remarkable old vines. Finding the right vineyards became a search for more than just variety. Vine age, soil, elevation, aspect and site all needed to work together to create wines with authenticity and a true sense of place.
That search ultimately led my wife Bridget and me to Marananga, where we now live and farm from our original 1890s stone settler's cottage.
Our vineyard and winery sit amongst some of the Barossa's most revered old-vine sites. Every vineyard is selected for its ability to express its own unique personality, with the role of the winemaker simply to guide that expression rather than overpower it.
Every parcel is hand-picked, traditionally open fermented and gently hand plunged before being basket pressed. The wines are matured patiently before final blends are carefully curated. They are bottled without fining or filtration, preserving their natural texture, complexity and individuality. Every wine is naturally vegan friendly.
Our Philosophy
At Curator Wine CO we believe the greatest wines are grown, not manufactured.
Our philosophy is built around respecting the vineyard and allowing each site to speak honestly through the finished wine. Rather than chasing a house style, we celebrate the individuality of each vineyard and each vintage.
Our wines are defined by:
Exceptional old-vine Barossa vineyards.
Minimal intervention throughout the winemaking process.
Traditional open fermenters, hands-on techniques.
Small-batch production with meticulous attention to detail.
Wines bottled unfined and unfiltered.
Authentic expressions of vineyard, season and place.
Sustainability
Sustainability is not a marketing exercise—it's simply how we believe vineyards should be farmed.
Our vineyards are managed with minimal cultivation and without the routine use of herbicides or pesticides, encouraging healthy soils and greater biodiversity.
Every drop of water used throughout our winery is harvested from rainfall collected on our sheds and home. After vintage, all grape marc is composted into our own vineyard mulch and returned beneath the vines, improving soil health, increasing water retention and completing the natural cycle from vineyard to wine and back again.
Crafted by Nature. Curated by Passion.
Curator Wine CO exists to showcase the remarkable old vineyards of the Barossa Valley through thoughtful, traditional winemaking.
Nature provides the vineyard, the vintage and the fruit.
Our role is simply to curate the journey from vine to bottle with patience, restraint and respect.
The result is a collection of wines that are unmistakably Barossa—powerful yet balanced, expressive of place, and made to be shared around the table for generations to come.
VINEYARDS
MARANANGA ESTATE VINEYARD
Located in the South of the Hamlet of Marananga on the western side of the Barossa Valley, our vineyard is set amongst beautiful rolling hills which directly affect the flavour characters associated with each vineyard block. The soil is rich in ironstone and quartzite, ideal for producing deeply flavoured fruit. Our home vineyard is predominantly made up of Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon and small plots of Petite Verdot, Malbec and Merlot for blending purposes.
We separate our vineyard into five distinctly different Shiraz vineyard plots (Hillside, Winery, Dam, Front R6 and Front 1654 blocks) and our Cabernet Sauvignon into two distinct plots (Hill and Flats).
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Contour vineyard planted post WWII, south facing, heavy loam on clay base soil. Old school Barossa dirt made with a twist.
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Old bush vine (now trellised) Grenache planted in the 1900’s and a tiny amount of bush vine Mataro. Brown loam on rich red clay soils, provide quite lifted aromas and amazing tannin structure.
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The beautiful 100+ year old vineyard just South of the Hamlet of Tanunda. We source our Montipuciano and Grenache for the CWCO Hamlets Rose from.
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35 year old vineyard wedged between the Hamlets of Marananga and Tanunda. This wine produces perfectly structured wines that add density and muscle and a lovely ferrous quality from the rich iron stone soils underneath the vines.
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Planted in the late 1950’s on the ancient “Nuri” soil dark loam on clay. makes very powerful, dark rich Shiraz with an amazing tannin profile. the 1960’s planted area is particularly of interest and is kept separate from the rest of the younger part of the vineyard (planted circa 1980’s) which makes up another major component of the Hamlets Shiraz.
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Planted in the 1950’s on rich red clay soil stereotypical to the Hamlet of Greenock. The vineyard creates fragrant rich wines of great depth of colour and density.
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Planted in 1920 on the deep dark brown loam on clay soils.
Out most northern vineyard we receive grapes from, prone to frost but the flavours are worth the effort.