'Making great wine and having fun' that's the Brokenwood way

Brokenwood senior winemaker Stuart Hordern and vineyard manager Katrina "Kat" Barry among the vines that produce the flagship Graveyard shiraz reds.

IN 1973 the first meagre crop of Brokenwood Hunter vintage grapes were harvested and carried in the boot of Len Evans's Bentley for processing at Rothbury Estate winery.

In the years that followed, Brokenwood was a hobby farm, founded in 1970 by a trio of Sydney-based lawyers, Tony Albert, John Beeston and James Halliday, who paid a then record price of $393 a hectare for four hectares of McDonalds Road, Pokolbin, scrubland.