"Misty Morning" - photograph by Grant Keighley The Valley of the Thousand Hills UPPER GOULBURN GI The Lost Valley Nestled on the high slopes of Victoria's Great Dividing Range in the stunningly beautiful 'Victorian High Country' 1 hour North of Melbourne, Lost Valley Winery is set amongst majestic boulders of pink granite at a lofty 450 metres altitude with sweeping views of Mount Buller, first growth forests of Australian Ghost Gums and bordered by the trout filled King Parrot Creek below. Almost forgotten by modern development, this land was called the "Valley of the Thousand Hills" by its indigenous aboriginal inhabitants; whilst the name for the Tallarook Forest that adjoins Lost Valley Winery, comes from the language of the Natramboolok Tribe meaning "Call of the Wattlebird".  "Almost Harvest " - photograph by Grant Keighley Golden Cortese A PASSION FOR QUALITY Hand pruned, cane arched, leaf plucked, bunch thinned, hand picked...that is just part of the care given to producing the best fruit possible to in turn make the level of quality that Lost Valley has become synonimous with. All four Lost Valley premium varietal wines; Shiraz, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc and the unique Cortese are made from pristine estate-grown fruit accross our two vineyard sites in the Upper Goulburn GI. Our vines at our Lost Valley site are planted on 15 acres of natural amphitheaters with their own unique red clay/granitic sand soil and micro-climate. Whilst our entire annual production from both Lost Valley and Mount Buller vineyards (total for both 25 acres) is just of @5000 cases across all four varietals, the wine's quality and following seems to make it all worthwhile. ** NEWS FLASH - Robert Parker gives all Lost Valley wines the thumbs up.   The world acclaimed wine expert Robert Parker has reviewed all four varietals from Lost Valley and each wine has received excellent reviews.   Not only is the average score across all 4 varietal 90, but the very complimentary language also stands the wines in good stead. Needless to say a 90 score – for all varietals from the vineyard - from the Parker stable is no small feat!   Top wine distributors in the USA point out - “we can probably count, on one hand, the number of Aussie wineries with a 90 point Parker average score, this is incredible. Lost Valley Winery has truly come of age as one of Australia’s top boutique wineries”. Chris Daniele/Wine Trade Trust. Our beautiful new Cellar door is nearing completion so for the time being we would ask you to shop either via our website (product availability permitting) or preferably from one of our many fine wine retailers located in Australia, USA, Canada, Indonesia and HK. To order from our cellar door: click 'Our E-Cellar Door' and follow the instructions. For a list of the fine wine retailers and restaurants serving our wine please look under the 'Taste and Find-it' section at the bottom of that page. One other small comment - no we typically do enter our wines in for the plethora of medals and awards that are now coming out of all directions Internationally. All of us at Lost Valley feel that it would be pointless and merely an expensive form of self aggrandisment. We prefer to contribute any money saved to keeping our prices reasonable for our customers!! In addition we are invariably sold out of each new varietal release often within the time that the awards get published! We often get asked...so we thought we would answer...! To contact us: Lost Valley Winery C/o PO Box 4123 Wishart, Victoria 3189, Australia tel:(61) 439 373453 fax:1300 566 165 or click the links below for all domestic trade enquiries please call or email:Mr David Hamer on 0439 373 453 - vinovate@bigpond.net.au or for International trade enquires e-mail Dr Robert Ippaso: ippaso@attglobal.net     FastCounter by bCentral