Rutherglen / Milawa Wine Region

Rutherglen is the best known town in this vineyard area in north eastern Victoria, just south of the Murray and about 50 km from the border with New South Wales at Wodonga. The main part stretches down to Milawa but it also includes Beechworth, Bright, Glenrowan, King Valley, Mansfield, Myrtleford and Yackandandah.

Beechworth is a well preserved old town with its origins in the goldrush when it had 61 hotels and its population was over 40,000 (now just over 3000). The town is beautifully situated with mountain views and well worth a visit whether or not you are interested in wine. Wineries include Giaconda Vineyard, Pennyweight Winery, Sorrenburg Winery.

Bright is another old gold town and a centre for bushwalking, with good access to the ski centres of Mt Hotham, Mt Buffalo and Falls Creek. Wineries include Boyntons of Bright.

See also High Country …

Glenrowan is the site of Ned Kelly’s last stand and has an amazing 6 metre high statue of him plus a museum. Wineries include Auldstone Cellars, Buffalo Mountain Wines.

Milawa is home to the famous Brown Brothers vineyard which has been producing wine since the 1880s. Other wineries in the Milawa-Oxley area include Ciavarella Wines, John Gerhig Wines, Reads Oxley Wines.

Rutherglen has a well preserved nineteenth century main street and it is surrounded by wineries which include All Saints, Anderson, Buller and Son, Campbells, Fairfield, Lake Moodmere, Mount Prior, Pfeiffer, St Leonards, Stanton and Killeen, Sutherland Smith and Warrabilla.

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All Saints Estate cellar door, Rutherglen © Tourism Victoria

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