The Jaunutis family (John, Barbara and son Kane) purchased Landhaus Estate in November 2002, and the following month bought ‘The Landhaus’ cottage and 1-ha vineyard at Bethany. Bethany is the oldest German-established town in the Barossa (1842) and the cottage was one of the first to be built. Kane has worked vintages for Mitolo and Trevor Jones as well as managing East End Cellars, one of Australia’s leading fine wine retailers, while John brings decades of owner/management experience and Barbara 20 years in sales and marketing. They decided not to produce any wine in 2003, instead rehabilitating the Bethany vineyard, and establishing contacts with growers of old vines in Greenock, Ebenezer and Stockwell. The strategy worked to perfection, the 2004 and ’05 wines selling out quickly.
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