Welcome to Miramar Wines

Miramar Wines is one of the Mudgee Valley’s premium wineries. Producing its first vintage in 1977 from grapes planted in 1973-74, Miramar has accumulated more than 40 trophies, 95 Gold and 500 other awards in Wine Shows throughout Australia and overseas and has attracted critical acclaim from wine writers around the country.

Included in the list of trophies are Best Rosé, Best Chardonnay, Best White Wine of the Show (Semillon), Best Dessert Wine, Best Cabernet Sauvignon, Best Shiraz and Best Museum Wine (Riesling, Chardonnay, Semillon Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz). Miramar Wines show an amazing ability to age well. Many of the aged wines (Museum Classes) have been 20 years and older when awarded the Best Wine Trophy.

Mudgee is one of Australia’s oldest winemaking regions with grapes planted soon after the first crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1822. The Gold Rush in the mid 1800s saw a huge increase in small wineries but the region languished after the depression at the end of the century until the renascence in the early 1970s when a number of the well-respected Mudgee names were established, including Miramar.

Ian MacRae, owner/winemaker of Miramar, came to Mudgee in 1975 as a consultant to set up and manage a new winery called Montrose built by industrial giant, Transfield. It became obvious to him that this region had great potential and he soon joined with a Sydney architect who had just begun to plant vines at Miramar. He left Montrose after the 1976 vintage to devote his energies full time to Miramar and later bought out his partner. And the rest is, as they say, history.

All Miramar wines are grown, made and bottled on the Estate.