Wine was grown in the Geelong region from the earliest colonial days.  Vines planted by Swiss settlers quickly created Victoria’s largest grape growing region, and one of the largest in the nation.

However, in the late 1800’s, as a result of an outbreak of phylloxera (a pest that attacks the vine roots) all vines from the Geelong region had to be destroyed.

From the mid 1960’s, Daryl and Nini Sefton planted vines in the Moorabool Valley.  Since then grape growing and wine making have flourished so much so that that Geelong is now widely recognised as one of Australia's premium wine growing regions with more than 60 vineyards.