Vintage edition
As first impressions go, it’s hard to beat the entrance to All Saints winery near Rutherglen in north-eastern Victoria. The road is lined with an avenue of 120-year-old elm trees that reveal at the end the splendid late-19th-century castellated winery building.
As the elms change with the seasons, visitors are presented with a new vista each time they arrive. It’s a view vineyard manager and winemaker Nick Brown and his wife, Lucy, get to enjoy on a daily basis as their home is also at the end of that avenue, a low-slung weatherboard-and-brick homestead that was originally built for the winery’s founder, George Sutherland Smith.
George and his business partner, John Banks, came
