28 Apr Virtual Tour of the Vineyard (pt 1)
It's a sunny day, so come and visit our vineyard remotely by joining me for this tour! ...
01 Apr Canberra Metro Same Day Deliveries
We're all being asked to stay home as much as possible, but that doesn't mean we can't eat and drink well at home. With Cellar Door open for bottle sales only (no tastings), we have time to make some of our own wine deliveries in Canberra. You still have the normal option of free shipping with our courier, which will usually...
19 Jan Cancelled – Sculpture Garden Party at the NGA
All events have been cancelled until further notice. We apologise and hope everyone stays safe and healthy through this time. Friday 27th March 5-8:30pm as part of the Canberra Wine Week. Come and join us for a quintessential Canberra District experience, a garden Party in the gorgeous surrounds of the National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture gardens. Leading producers, Collector, Mada, Mount Majura Vineyard,...
18 Jan Cancelled – Wine Week Harvest Festival at Cellar Door
All events have been cancelled until further notice. We apologise and hope everyone stays safe and healthy through this time. Saturday 28th March While we may not be celebrating all things harvest this vintage there is still plenty to enjoy and celebrate. As part of the Canberra Wine Week on Saturday the 28th March come to cellar door to enjoy our range...
01 Dec Cancelled – The Forage
All events have been cancelled until further notice. We apologise and hope everyone stays safe and healthy through this time. Saturday 4th April at the Dairy Road Precinct Fyshwick 2-7pm The Forage Is a showcase of street food (and other food products) by our local cafes, food trucks, wineries and breweries. Our mission is to give our local businesses (established and new) an...
23 Feb Club Members get 30th Vintage Underway
We had some pretty special pickers for our first picking day for vintage 2019: club members! After going through a foot bath and a short safety briefing (‘these snips are sharp, don’t cut any fingers off’) our enthusiastic team were into it, carefully placing chardonnay bunches in their picking lugs and commenting on their beauty. It wasn’t a crack-of dawn start,...
05 Jun Frank is a finalist in the 2018 Gourmet Traveller WINE Magazine
Our winemaker, Frank van de Loo has been nominated as a 2018 finalist in the Winemaker of the Year awards conducted by Gourmet Traveller WINE magazine. Van de Loo started working here in the vineyard at Mount Majura in 1998, quickly expanding it to the current size, and taking over the winemaking role in 2001. The expansion of the vineyard included planting...
07 Dec Bug Eat Bug
A vineyard, especially at this time of year, is a beautiful sight, green, lush and bursting with life and the promise of grapes to come. As we explained recently, we need to be careful how we manage this natural system, and ideologically-driven methods aren’t necessarily the best. We implement ‘integrated pest management’, in other words, we look carefully at the ecology...
27 Sep Understanding the Vineyard
One of the fascinating things about wine is the people it attracts and the range of emotions it engenders. For some people, it has to be organic, or even biodynamic, and we can understand where they’re coming from. Wine can be a beautiful product of the land, a sensuous experience that connects us to a time and place where the sun...
21 Aug $16,000 for YouthCare Canberra
We're very proud to announce that the team here at Mount Majura Vineyard have raised $16,000 for our charity partner, YouthCARE Canberra, through the sale of a special release wine, NINO. The money will go directly towards outreach services for youth at risk, in an effort to help those facing homelessness and violence. The NINO project was a great deal of fun...