Hewitson Barossa Valley
Barossa Valley , South Australia
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Hewitson Barossa Valley
Winery Overview
Dean Hewitson was born in 1965 in the early days of the red and white table wine booms in Australia. As a consequence in the early 70s he was planting vines and harvesting grapes in the small vineyard his parents with friends commenced, while collecting wine labels in a scrap book. It was an inconspicuous beginning to a life in wine.
Dean completed his Wine Making Degree at Australia’s Roseworthy Agricultural College in 1986. He then spent a decade working in one of Australia’s leading wineries from 1987 to 1997. During this time Dean travelled in France, working vintages 1988 and 1989 and experiencing regions including Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Beaujolais, and The Rhone. Dean then spent two years from 1990 to 1992 in California at UC Davis, completing his Masters in Food Science (Enology) and at the same time immersed himself tasting in the vineyards of Santa Barbara, Napa Valley, Sonoma Valley, Monterey, Oregon and Washington State, including vintaging 1991 in Willamette Valley. In 1995 Dean lived and worked making wine in Provence for 3 months with his wife Lou while raising their young family.
Dean established his eponymous winery Hewitson in 1998 and in 1999 was awarded Australia’s Best New Producer. Considered in the top echelon of Australian wineries more recent reviews include ‘Five Star Rated Winery’ James Halliday Wine Companion;
‘Hewitson is one of my favourite Barossa wineries for French-inspired, classic, intensely as well as elegant wines aged primarily in French Oak’ Robert Parker The Wine Advocate; ‘Top 10 Australian Wineries’, Decanter Magazine; and Inaugural Paris Wine Cup Winner in 2020 of Best In Show By Quality, Best In Show By Country, Best In Show By Varietals and Gold Medal.
Family-owned, the Hewitson winery is located in the heart of the Barossa Valley on the historic Seppeltsfield Road. The winery is entirely run with solar energy and recycles all of the water it uses in cleaning and washing to put back into the soils. Proudly through solar energy, water recycling and encouraging natural biodiversity to thrive throughout its vineyards Hewitson proudly makes its wines environmentally sustainably.
Boasting some of the oldest vines in the world the fruit for Hewitson wines is sourced from the ancient, dry-grown pre-Phylloxera vineyards of the Barossa Valley and single sites in Eden Valley and the Adelaide Hills. “We believe great wines are the expression of the soils they are grown in and in the seasons they grow. Through knowledge and experience, we strive for balance, structure, concentration, power and breeding” says Dean.
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Winemaker Bio
Dean Hewitson was born in 1965 at the start of the red and white table wine booms in Australia. As a consequence in the early 70s he was planting vines and harvesting grapes in the small vineyard his parents with friends commenced, while collecting wine labels in a scrap book. It was an inconspicuous beginning of a life in wine.
Dean completed his Wine Making Degree at Australia’s Roseworthy Agricultural College in 1986. He then spent a decade working in one of Australia’s leading wineries from 1987 to 1997. During this time Dean travelled in France, working vintages 1988 and 1989 and experiencing regions including Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne, Beaujolais and The Rhone. Dean then spent two years from 1990 to 1992 in California at UC Davis, completing his Masters in Food Science (Enology) and at the same time immersed himself tasting in the vineyards of Santa Barbara, Napa Valley, Sonoma Valley, Monterey, Oregon and Washington State, including vintaging 1991 in Willamette Valley. In 1995 Dean lived and worked making wine in Provence for 3 months with his wife Lou while raising their young family.
Dean founded his eponymous winery Hewitson in 1998 and in 1999 was awarded Australia’s Best New Producer. From this point Hewitson has continued making wines of the quality and distinction and is recognised in the top tier of Barossa Valley and Australia wineries.
