The East Block, planted 1921
Our Story
Born of the
Born of the
valley's first light
In 1887, Édouard Bouchard arrived in the Yarra Valley with a single trunk of Burgundian vine cuttings, a surveyor's instinct for slope, and an unwavering conviction that Australia's cool south could produce wines of the highest European character.
He was right. Four generations of the Bouchard family have tended the same red volcanic soils, never chasing fashion, always guided by the land's own counsel.
138
Years of continuous family ownership
Today, the estate spans 42 hectares across two naturally cooled ridges, with original plantings still producing fruit of extraordinary concentration and restraint.
