PROPRIETOR: Pete Bissell and Louise Dickens
EMAIL: dvts@bigpond.com.au
ADDRESS: Section 820, Riddoch Highway, Naracoorte SA 5271
TELEPHONE: 08 87372040
MOBILE: 0427 852315 Pete, 0417 852248 Lou
GRAPES/WINES PRODUCED: Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz
Broken Windmill Vineyard is a 12 Ha vineyard that was established in 1999 , with plantings of Shiraz 2.0Ha (BVRC30) and 10 Ha Cabernet Sauvignon. Rather than plant clones Pete selected cuttings from old established Coonawarra Cabernet vineyards ( planted in the 1950-1960s) that he had made previously made wine from and liked the flavour profile and tannin quality. Pete Bissell has had a 30 year career making wine for initially Wynns Coonawarra Estate and for the last 22 years Balnaves of Coonawarra. Pete was the Gourmet Traveller winemaker of the Year in 2005 and Balnaves was James Hallidays Winery of the Year in 2008. Pete has made wine from Wrattonbully since 2002 for various customers , but all Broken Windmill vineyard is currently sold as fruit. Louise Dickens is a Horticulturalist specialising in entomology and plant pathology, and runs her own business Dickens Vineyard Technical Services PL monitoring for pests and diseases in many vineyards across the Limestone Coast. Together managing the vines on this long narrow little vineyard next to the Riddoch Highway, which sits on a thin strip of undulating terra rossa soil on shallow limestones, on what was the ancient shoreline of Australia.
