Clovely Estate Winery

Clovely Estate is located 13 km south-east of Murgon on Steinhardts Road. Clovely’s vineyards were established in 1997 and are the largest in the South Burnett, covering 174ha (430 acres). Clovely Estate is owned by the Heading family who’ve been farming in the South Burnett for more than a century.Clovely Estate grows Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay, Semillon and Verdelho grapes. The Estate also grows smaller quantities of Barbera, Grenache, Mourvèdre, Nebbiolo, Petit Verdot and Sangiovese and is currently carrying out small trial plantings of a number of other alternate grape varieties.

With both straight and blended bottlings of the above mentioned varieties, Clovely also has a Reserve Sparkling Brut available; a Sparkling Shiraz; two fortified wines; Tawny and Liqueur Cabernet Sauvignon; a Botrytis Semillon dessert wine and their flagship wine; Double Pruned Shiraz. Clovely also has their own winery which crushes up to 1600 tonnes per annum for their own brand and also produces wines under contract for many other companies under the expert hands of multi-award winning winemaker Luke Fitzpatrick.

Clovely Estate’s Moffatdale cellar door is open for tastings between 10:00am and 4:00pm Saturdays and Sundays. It stocks all the Estate’s wines as well as olives and olive oil produced from the company’s 37,000 tree grove. Clovely Estate also have a second cellar door at 210 Musgrave Road, Red Hill in Brisbane (see Clovely’s website for more details about this).