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HISTORY

The Homestead

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Geoff and Marie-Pierre took over Sunnyhurst in May 2017 after a two-year search for the ideal place to live. The house is a glorious 120-year-old federation brick building with pressed tin ceilings, fire places in every rooms and fabulous original jarrah floorboards.  The house is set high on a hill with a magnificent view over the north-facing vineyard to the Mattamattup Valley and, to the West, over the Blackwood River Valley. Apparently, Sunnyhurst homestead was once, during war time, headquarters for the Red Cross.

The Winery

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Since its establishment in 2000, Sunnyhurst has always used traditional winemaking methods.
All grapes are hand-picked and pressed using a hand-operated Italian basket press to gently extract the juice from the grapes' skins and pulp.
Refrigeration ensures white wines achieve great delicacy and flavour from a long cool fermentation and remain on lees for months.
Reds are left to age in French oak, mainly recycled from Burgundy and given a second life in the Margaret River Cooperage. Racked three times, ( settled sediments removed from the bottom of the barrel), they are left to age and soften for a minimum of one year, sometimes two.
All aspects of wine production are undertaken on site. This includes bottling, corking ( yes we still use cork at Sunnyhurst!), capsuling and labelling.

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PLEASE NOTE OPENING DAYS & HOURS 
OPEN THURSDAY TO SUNDAY 11 am to 5 pm  
OPEN ON PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

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Lot 16 Doust Street, PO Box 380 Bridgetown WA 6255 Mob 0437 846 610/ 0429 184 620  Email: sunnyhurst@wn.com.au
It is illegal within Australia, to supply alcohol products to persons under 18 years of age. 
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