Colmar Estate

Colmar Estate craft distinctive, high quality wines from hand-picked grapes, grown on our high altitude vineyard in Orange.

Colmar Estate is the result of a life-long dream by Bill Shrapnel to own a vineyard one day. The cool climate of our gorgeous, high altitude site provides perfect conditions for producing the finest quality grapes. These are exclusively hand-picked and crafted into single-vineyard wines of rare character and style.

Colmar Estate is a 6-hectare vineyard nestled in the slopes of Mount Canobolas in the Orange Region. At an altitude of 980 metres it is one of the highest vineyards in Australia and a unique site to grow high quality wine grapes. The cool, continental climate of Colmar Estate is similar to those in some of the classic wine regions of France that have inspired us, such as Burgundy and Alsace. Most of our blocks of vines sit on a north-facing slope, ideal for making the most of the sunshine in a cool climate. The vineyard has weathered volcanic soils of moderate fertility, which drain well.