In over one hundred years of growing grapes and making wine, the Brown family has forged an enviable reputation, locally and abroad, as varietal wine specialists and viticultural and winemaking innovators. Even though the North East of Victoria, indeed the entire Australian wine industry at the end of the 1800s had made its reputation on the production of generously flavoured fortified wines, John Francis decided the future of the Milawa Estate lay in the production of fine table wines. His foresight and willingness to experiment with new grape varieties was inherited by his son, John Charles Brown, who took over the reins of the vineyard in 1934 and ran the operation until he in turn was joined by his sons in the 1960s and 1970s. Together they explored new grape varieties and new grape growing regions around Milawa, the King Valley, the Alps, and out onto the sunny plains of northern Victoria. The family found climatic and soil conditions so diverse that they successfully grow over 45 different commercial and experimental grape varieties.
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