north east regional extra | June 26 - 32, 2024
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JUNE 26 - JULY 2, 2024
Wines that span generations
◆ FAMILY OWNED: Kate Buller and her Father Richard Buller bought the vineyard for Dinah Wines in Rutherglen and began renovations with their family in 2019.
AFTER a painstaking four years of restoration, Dinah Wines is open for business in Rutherglen. It is owned by the Buller family, who have been in the wine industry ever since Reginald Buller moved to Rutherglen in 1921. Reginald got his start in the wine industry thanks to his generous neighbour lending him the equipment and vines to start making wines. Reginald’s neighbour also sold him three
draft horses - Billy, Model and the winery’s namesake Dinah - who had three sound legs and a fourth badly affected with rheumatism. “For us Dinah represents the hard work, passion and the desire to always move forward,” Kate Buller said. “We are proud of our history and wanted to
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recognise our roots while striving forward for hopefully the generations to come.” Almost 100 years later in 2019, Reginald’s grandson Richard and his wife Susan Buller, alongside their daughter Kate and her children Rippon, Ivy and Archer, purchased a 57-yearold run down vineyard in desperate need of saving. “In 2020 we began the mammoth task of vineyard restoration and the building of a new cellar door and winery,” Kate said.
“The site will be an ongoing labour of love as we continue in the vineyard and with the surrounding garden.” The past 12 months has seen the family working on the construction and completion of the ‘Big Green Shed’, which houses the cellar door. Kate said, like many of the Rutherglen wineries, Dinah Wines is a generational business, where you can currently find three generations on site at any one time.
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