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Geelong and Ballarat, Victoria

Cool-climate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, one vineyard at a time.

SunburyPinot Noir

A bottle of Byrne Sunbury Pinot Noir.

2025

MV6, off the southern end of the Sunbury GI. Red and dark berry fruit with spice and earth under it, weight through the middle, and a silky tannin that carries the finish a long way out.

GeelongPinot Noir

A bottle of Byrne Geelong Pinot Noir.
If I was to say what “typical” Geelong pinot is, it might look something like this.
James Thomas, Heroes Vineyard, on the 2024 Geelong Pinot Noir

2024

Lifted and floral to start with, then red and dark berries with spice laid over them. Supple tannin, and the acid that keeps the whole thing bright.

Tasted blind beside every Geelong Pinot Noir that could be found, four of eight judges put it in their top six — as many as any wine in the room. Young Gun of Wine, May 2026

GoldenGeelongPinot Noir

A bottle of Byrne Golden Geelong Pinot Noir.

2024 · Mount Moriac

The first Golden we have released. The Mount Moriac fruit was too good to treat like the rest of it, so it got the long version — 15% whole bunches in a wild ferment, then French oak with 60% of the barrels new, eighteen months in there and another six in bottle before it went anywhere. It will reward keeping. We did not want to call it a Reserve, so for now it is the Golden Child.

GeelongChardonnay

A bottle of Byrne Geelong Chardonnay.

2025

A cool year, so the fruit came in concentrated and with bright natural acid. Floral and citrus to start with, then white stone fruit and a hint of pie crust, and the acid carries it a long way.

Three vineyards

  • A bottle of Byrne Coghills Creek.

    Coghills Creek

    Ballarat Chardonnay · 2021 · Myola Vineyard

    An ideal cool vintage north of Ballarat. High natural acid holds up the citrus and the mineral, with white peach and a little toast over the top, and the texture is silk.

  • A bottle of Byrne Sutherlands Creek.

    Sutherlands Creek

    From the cellar · Geelong Pinot Noir · 2018 · Strathmore Vineyard

    Off the French block at Strathmore — mature, close-planted, classic Burgundian clones on the limestone-speckled soil of the Moorabool Valley. A cool year, low-yielding vines and gentle handling. Floral and red berry to open, then spice and earth balancing the fruit, and fine tannin against firm acid for the length.

  • A bottle of Byrne Trawalla.

    Trawalla

    From the cellar · Ballarat Shiraz · 2017 and 2018 · Trawalla Jack Vineyard

    One of only two Shiraz vineyards we know of in the Ballarat area, and it makes a genuinely cool-climate Shiraz. Dark berries and spice, quiet at first, savoury and complex underneath. Give it time and a big glass — it opens right up, and the natural acid and firm tannin carry it.

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Alex Byrne in a dark work shirt, looking down.

Alex Byrne

The idea came from Burgundy. The fruit comes from Geelong and Ballarat.

In 2008 I was offered a vintage at Gevrey-Chambertin, in Burgundy. That is where the Pinot Noir and the Chardonnay really started for me, and a good deal of the cheese with them.

I came home at the start of 2009 to the assistant winemaker job at Lethbridge, in Geelong, and started making cool-climate Victorian wine of my own alongside it. Ballarat, where I grew up without ever appreciating the cold, turned out to be the right place in Australia to grow Pinot and Chardonnay: a long, slow season on rocky volcanic soil, and fruit elegant enough to make something subtle out of.