Dog Trap Vineyard

Dog Trap Vineyard aims to produce wines of outstanding quality and value, and believe in friendly, personal customer service and welcome visitors

Dog trap vineyard is a specialist producer of premium quality dry red table wines made from Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes grown near Yass, NSW. It was purchased by the present owners, Dr Dennis Hart and Ms Julian White, in 2003 and is a small, locally focussed business.

Their philosophy is that “Great wine is made in the vineyard” so they aim to grow absolutely the best grapes that they can, from which superb wine can then be made. This is not to say, of course, that winemaking is unimportant and in this respect they employ a combination of traditional and modern techniques to achieve the best possible results. For instance, they use traditional open fermentation with hand plunging (at least three to four times a day) of the fermenting grapes and then basket pressing but, in addition to barrels, we also use sophisticated modern “Flexcube” tanks and oak staves for maturing our wines.