Wineries For Sale: Farmbuy.com Buyers' Guide

Australia’s Best Wineries For Sale 

If you're looking for wineries for sale, farmbuy.com has a great selection to choose from. And there's no better place to own a winery then Australia, which has an outstanding international reputation for producing high-quality wines.

Wine is produced in every state in Australia, with more than 60 designated wine regions totalling approximately 160,000 hectares. However, Australia's wine regions are mainly in the southern, cooler parts of the country, with vineyards located in the south of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland.

To learn more about the outlook for Australia's wine industry click here. And see below for four of our favourite wineries currently for sale - or click here for the full list of wineries for sale in some the most sought-after regions of Australia including McLaren Vale, Hunter Valley, Margaret River and Tasmania.

Wineries For Sale: 271 Pierrepoint Road, Tarrington, VIC

Perched high on the south-eastern aspect of Mt Pierrepoint between Hamilton and Tarrington, this winery for sale combines an enviable lifestyle proposition with established commercial enterprises.

Above: This winery for sale combines an enviable lifestyle proposition with established commercial enterprises

With approximately 6.5 hectares of mature vines, a cellar door sales facility and a thriving bed-and-breakfast business, Pierrepoint offers a range of opportunities close to a thriving regional centre.

Above: This winery for sale includes 6.5ha of mature vines, cellar door sales facility and thriving bed-and-breakfast business

Set in an attractive European garden, the homestead (circa 1907) is of symmetrical design and contains five bedrooms, three bathrooms, central kitchen, and both informal and formal living areas.

Above: This winery for sale features a beautiful five-bedroom, three-bathroom homestead set in an attractive European garden

A renowned cellar door sales facility overlooks the Chardonnay vines and the surrounding lawns provide for functions of up to 200 people. Wrapping around the cellar door is the vineyard with approximately 2.4 hectares of Pinot Gris, and two hectares each of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vines.

Above: This winery for sale has an an enviable reputation for the quality of its fruit, including Chardonnay, Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir

Pierrepoint wines regularly gain ratings in the 94-96 range by noted wine judge James Halliday and the vineyards have an enviable reputation for the quality of their fruit.

Above: This winery for sale boasts a cellar door sales facility overlooking the Chardonnay vines and the surrounding lawns

This is an extremely versatile farming property, suitable for a range of enterprises. It benefits from reliable 700mm rainfall, winter/spring dominant, presenting an opportunity to expand the vineyard across a larger footprint.

Above: This winery for sale benefits from reliable 700mm rainfall, winter/spring dominant, presenting opportunities to expand the vineyard 

The property is ideally located midway between the Grampians and southern coastal locations such as Port Fairy and Bridgewater.

Click on the following link for more information on this winery for sale at 271 Pierrepoint Road, Tarrington, VIC.

Wineries For Sale: 29 Palmers Lane, Pokolbin, NSW

A Hunter Valley landmark, ‘Peacock Hill’, located in the heart of Hunter Valley wine country, is offered for sale for the first time in more than 25 years.

Above: This winery for sale, Peacock Hill, is being offered for sale for the first time in more than 25 years

Sitting among the Hunter’s most prized vineyards, this boutique parcel of just over eight hectares offers a substantial home, two-bedroom guest accommodation, cellar door, manager’s residence, massive underground storage cellar, machinery shed, 20Kw solar power, and park-like grounds with huge Jacarandas and Peppercorn trees shading old gardens and a central tennis court.

Above: This winery for sale features a main residence boasting substantial living spaces including a formal dining room

The main residence offers substantial living spaces including a games room with full-size snooker table, a first-floor formal dining room with wrap-around verandas, a commercial-grade kitchen with stainless and stone tops, an atrium as well as oversized bedrooms and a home office.

Above: This winery for sale includes a games room with full-size snooker table

Adjoining is a two-bedroom, two-bathroom guest lodge and cellar door from which a successful high-end wine business is operated.

Above: This winery for sale includes an amazing commercial-grade kitchen with stainless and stone tops

In addition, a manager’s residence has been structurally engineered to be converted to a restaurant (STCA). It offers breathtaking views over the surrounding vineyards as well as a huge underground temperature-controlled wine storage cellar that is large enough to be a winery space (STCA).

Above: This winery for sale features a cellar door from which a successful high-end wine business is operated

Predominantly planted in 1968, the vineyard spans a manageable fully irrigated 4.85 hectares and has a 14-megalitre PID allocation with some of the Hunter’s best examples of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Shiraz and Chardonnay. Approximately 0.8 hectares is vacant in the front paddock and suitable for further planting or development. The profitable wine business, wine stock and equipment are all included in the sale.

Click on the following link for more information on this winery for sale at 29 Palmers Lane, Pokolbin, NSW.

Wineries For Sale: St George, QLD

Riversands Vineyards is a highly developed, diversified wine-tourism and table grape business. The property is being offered for sale on a walk-in walk-out basis with immediate income to the potential purchaser.

Above: This iconic winery for sale comprises a highly developed, diversified wine-tourism and table grape business

The regional Queensland vineyard comprises approximately 25,000 vines covering around 19 hectares (48 acres) split as 14 hectares of table grapes and five hectares of wine grapes.

Above: This winery for sale includes approximately 25,000 vines covering around 19 hectares

Riversands is a Sunworld grower licensed to grow ‘Midnight Beauty’ with access to an exciting range of new quick-maturing varieties. It offers the potential to grow new higher-yielding table grape varieties suited to export.

Above: This winery for sale features around 14 hectares of table grapes and five hectares of wine grapes

The vineyard is supplied by a secure 226-megalitre water licence stored in the Beardmore Dam with a full year of water supply. The owners have undertaken significant irrigation infrastructure redevelopment over the past five years, increasing pump capacity, filters, sub-mains and conversion to double drippers on table grapes costing over $300,000.

Above: This winery for sale is supplied by a secure 226-megalitre water licence stored in the Beardmore Dam

The renowned vineyard’s cold room was also substantially upgraded in 2010 with the capacity to chill and store up to 44 pallets of table grapes costing over $250,000.

Above: This winery for sale produces some 15,000-25,000kg of premium table grapes

Riversands has an established brand name in the table grape industry producing 15,000-25,000kg (10-kilogram cartons) of premium table grapes marketed directly to supermarkets via the Costa Group.

Above: This winery for sale markets its wine through multiple marketing channels, including the cellar door

Its multi-award-winning wine is sold through multiple marketing channels, including the cellar door, more than 50 retail outlets, 30 shows and festivals, and internet sales.

Above: This winery for sale has hosted record tourist numbers since July 2020

In addition to hosting record tourist numbers since July 2020, the vineyard hosts an increasing number of functions and events. The business comes with highly experienced staff and a tried and proven management structure.

Click on the following link for more information on this winery for sale at St George, QLD.

Wineries For Sale: 'Mallow', 345 Estate Road, Campania, TAS

This magnificent winery for sale really has everything and all in a fantastic location. Situated in the iconic Coal River Valley, ‘Mallow’ is just eight minutes north of the historic Richmond village and 30 minutes from Hobart.

Above: This winery for sale is situated in the iconic Coal River Valley, just eight minutes north of the historic Richmond village

Comprising just over 43 hectares (or nearly 110 acres) of fertile soil, ‘Mallow’ enjoys about one kilometre of frontage to the Coal River. The land is comprised of rich river flats utilised for pasture and six hectares of lucerne for fat lamb production.

Above: This winery for sale comprises just over 43ha utilised for pasture and lucerne production as well as a vineyard

The vineyard is positioned on the gentle slopes above the house and comprises 4.5ha of Pinot and Chardonnay (16,500 vines) which were planted November 2020. A further four hectares is fully prepared and trellised for planting now.

Above: This winery for sale includes a four-bedroom, three-bathroom circa 1920 renovated homestead

In a slightly elevated site surrounded by landscaped gardens and shade trees is a four-bedroom, three-bathroom circa 1920 renovated homestead with a covered veranda at the front and views out to the river.

Above: The homestead on this winery for sale boasts a covered veranda at the front and views out to the river

In addition to the main residence, there is a new separate self-contained flat that can either be part of the central home or separated and used for rental accommodation.

Above: In addition to the main residence, this winery for sale includes a new separate self-contained flat perfect for rental accommodation

In addition, there is a large weatherboard woolshed, machinery sheds, a barn with concrete floor that is ready to be set up as a cellar door with all cooking and refrigeration equipment included (STCA), stables and a workshop.

Above: This winery for sale features a large weatherboard woolshed, machinery sheds and a barn with concrete floor

Water is supplied via a 20-megalitre water right plus eight-megalitre dam and bore water. There are two pump sheds on the river bank and underground mains to the river flats and the vineyard for irrigation.

Above: This winery for sale comes with a 20-megalitre water right plus eight-megalitre dam and bore water

‘Mallow’ is being sold on a walk-in-walk-out basis with all equipment in excellent condition included.

Click on the following link for more information on this winery for sale at 345 Estate Road, Campania, TAS.