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Australia’s Oatley and New Zealand’s Giesen families are delighted to announce an Australian distribution partnership commencing April 2016. Oatley Fine Wine Merchants (OFWM) have been appointed distributors of the Giesen portfolio in the Australian independent retail and on-premise markets. “We are very excited to be working with the Giesen brothers to represent their impressive range of wines here in Australia” said OFWM Chairman Andrew (Sandy) Oatley. &ldqu  Read More

The Oatley family are pleased to announce a partnership with the Rymill family of Coonawarra whereby Oatley Fine Wine Merchants will manage the Australian distribution of the outstanding Rymill Coonawarra range of wines from July 1, 2016. When Peter Rymill established the Rymill Coonawarra vineyards in 1974, with his wife Judy, he was igniting a passion for wine which ran through his family’s veins since his great-great grandfather, John Riddoch, founded Coonawarra in 1890. Today,   Read More

Australian wine legend Chris Hancock is proud to release his first wines under the Hancock & Hancock label, a partnership with his brother John, based at their McLaren Vale South Australia vineyard ‘La Colline’. The pair of red wines released this month comprise a Shiraz Grenache and Cabernet Touriga from the 2014 McLaren Vale vintage. Having graduated in Oenology at Roseworthy Agricultural College in 1963 (as Dux), Hancock worked for the Penfold family, with Max Schu  Read More