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Nick Brown tells me that he is nurturing wines in barrel that he will never see bottled – this is to ensure the success of their long-term vision of quality. This to me is wine at its best. There is an element of the supernatural, a counterintuitive sacrifice seen through a genuine willingness to contribute to something larger than oneself with a complete understanding that someone may never see the fruits of their sacrifice. What is it about the wine industry that breeds or instils this? What is it about the wine industry that calls successive generations back home to willingly accept the wisdom and torch from their predecessors? The Brown family are a genuine case study in this. One of the first families of Australian Wine, the Brown family are amongst the leading pioneers of Australian wine history. Nick Brown heads wine making operations in the Brown family-owned Rutherglen wineries of All Saints, St Leonard’s, and Mt Ophir. Nick has fond memories of doing midnight vineyards runs on the tractor with his father when he was a child. Nick insists that there was absolutely zero expectation that Nick would return to join the family enterprise. Yet fourth generation Brown siblings Nick, Angela and Eliza all made the decision upon the death of their father to take the reins and continue the Brown family tradition of crafting exceptional Australian wine. That’s what does it for me. The Browns are about family. Their wines tell this story. Nick Brown recently joined me for an hour to share all about the Brown’s and their history in Rutherglen. A massive thanks to Nick for joining me.  

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