Curlewis Winery
	55 Navarre Road, Curlewis, Vic 3222
	Geelong
	(03) 5250 4567
	www.curlewiswinery.com.au
	By appt
	Rainer Breit
	1998
	1500
	2 ha

Rainer Breit and partner Wendy Oliver purchased their property in 1996 with 1.6 ha of what were then 11-year-old pinot noir vines. Rainer, a self-taught winemaker, uses the full bag of pinot noir winemaking tricks: cold-soaking, hot-fermentation, post-ferment maceration, part inoculated and part wild yeast use, prolonged lees contact, and bottling the wine neither fined nor filtered. While Rainer and Wendy are self-confessed ‘pinotphiles', they have planted a little chardonnay and buy a little locally grown shiraz and chardonnay. Exports to Canada, Sweden, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.